Kaluga Museum of Cosmonautics. Tsiolkovsky

The world's first and largest museum of Russian space subjects, opened in 1967 in Kaluga.

The unique museum of astronautics reveal the history of aeronautics, aircraft, space rocketry. Exhaustively represented the scientific heritage of Tsiolkovsky, the founder of theoretical astronautics, large inventor, author of works on philosophy and sociology.

The museum reflects the history of Russian cosmonautics of the first artificial satellite to modern long-term orbital stations.

The author of this "virtual tour" of the museum blogger victorprofessor
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1. Inspection begins with stands dedicated to satellite imagery.





2. presents good screenshots from Google, for example.



3. spacesuit.



4. Globe USSR - he still exists!



5. In the next room had a normal start acquaintance with the history of development of air and space.



6. A huge number of drawings and illustrations on the theme will look like our future.



7. Decorated beautifully, but still behind the glass, so it is impossible to photograph without glare.



8. Science fiction - the orbital plane of the future.



9. The history of how people learned to fly ...



10. scribbled on plexiglas formulas and figures are illuminated from the back side.



11. Finally - the main hall. Here huge collection of space hardware.



12. For example, liquid rocket engine RD-K3.



13. Or ejection trolley ... (Okay, in the photograph everything is visible).



14. Hall of rocket and space technology.



15. Command and signaling devices away from the Union.



16. The volume model of the moon with marks where landed the USSR and America.



17. Control system module space.



18. The automatic interplanetary station "Zond-3", equipped with a burglar alarm in the form of two humanoid robots "do not touch".



19. The main attraction of the museum - Lunokhod.



20. A rocket engine in cross section.



21. Emulation solar panels. Of course, the originals in the museum there.



22. Pipelines.



23. By the way, in the museum you can not touch anything



24. Tools astronauts.



25. Survival Kit in the event of an emergency landing. Just fishing gear to catch fish could.



26. Space Cthulhu?



27. The lander spacecraft. There inside so closely that just awful.



28. Some setting dyal ground analysis.



29. Space pliers.



30. And most coveted - space sweets



31. beautiful red tubes.



32. Layout space station Union. In general, even here before a full-size model of the station Mir was, but unfortunately it was taken to Moscow at the Exhibition Center.



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