Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics at the Exhibition Center (46 photos)

Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow - the museum space subjects, located in the basement of the monument "Conquerors of Space" at the Alley of Cosmonauts. Space Museum is located in the North-East district of Moscow. This area of ​​Moscow is rightly called the space.
There is especially a lot of "space" and the names of objects, such as the street Academician Korolev Kibalchicha Zander Kondratyuka, Cosmonauts, Star and Rocket boulevards, hotel "Cosmos", "Star" cinema "Cosmos».



The long-awaited opening of the museum to the public April 10, 1981. and it was dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of the space flight of Yuri Gagarin. Since 2006, the museum was closed for renovation and was opened in April 2009. The new exhibit widely used museum installation, the latest museum technologies.





At the beginning of the exhibition visitors are greeted Belka and Strelka - the first animal to orbit space flight and returned to Earth intact in 1960.



Soviet satellite. The world's first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union on Oct. 4, 1957 (Sputnik 1).



Going from exposure to exposure can be traced all the way of development - the first manned space flight to the present day.
A great place in the exposition is given, of course, Y. Gagarin.



Tells about the life of Gagarin. Includes photographs, letters, etc.



Yuri Gagarin was killed March 27, 1968 in a plane crash near the village of Novoselova Kirzhach Vladimir region, performing a training flight on the MiG-15UTI.
In connection with the death of Gagarin of the Soviet Union it was declared a national mourning (for the first time in the history of the USSR in the memory of a person who is not a head of state). In honor of the first cosmonaut of the Earth has been renamed several settlements (including his native city - Gzhatsk), named streets and avenues. In different cities of the world has been found many monuments to Gagarin.



"Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin" - a large research vessel, is the flagship of the space research ships of the USSR. The ship was built at the Baltic Shipyard in Leningrad in 1971.



The exhibition, devoted to Tsiolkovsky.



KE Tsiolkovsky - Russian and Soviet scientist and inventor of the self-taught, a school teacher. The founder of theoretical astronautics. Justify the use of rockets to fly in space, came to the conclusion that the use of "rocket trains" - prototypes multistage rockets. Main areas of research are aeronautics, astronautics and rocket dynamics.



The exhibition, dedicated to the Queen.



SP Korolev - Soviet scientist, designer of rocket and space systems, academician (1958). On behalf of the Queen linked the era of exploration of outer space. Under his leadership the majority of domestic ballistic and geophysical rockets, rockets and manned spacecraft "Vostok" and "Voskhod", which for the first time in history were carried out manned space flight (1961) and to withdrawal rights in Outer Space (1965 ).



Part of the exhibition is dedicated to women in space.



And, of course, Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman who made space flight.









The main interest of visitors attracted to models of satellites, spaceships. Interiors excellent museum and walk on them is a pleasure.









It will be interesting to both adults and children.





The scene of landing astronauts on Earth. The capsule is not the layout and original.



Space food.







Space wear.



A copy of the rover in the museum space.





An interactive museum. You can press different buttons on the screen to find the information you need.





A copy of the MIR.



"Peace" - Soviet (and later Russian) orbital station of the third generation is a complex multi-purpose research complex. "The World" is the first modular space station. It was launched in February 1986, March 23, 2001 sunk in the Pacific Ocean.





The interior of the station Mir.









Out astronaut into space.