| Address: |
111 Prospekt Mira
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| Metro: |
VDNKh |
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Located in the pedestal of the impressive sculpture-monument to the Conquerors of Space. Show Route
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| Tel: |
+7 (495) 683 7914 |
The museum is very stylish, with colour lamps and a cosmic structure welcoming you. You can see real cosmonautic equipment, like Yuri Gagarin's orange training suit and the spheric vessel in which he re-entered Earth after his 108 minute orbit trip around the Earth in the first sattelite in 1961. There are several 'first' spacecrafts which were used to explore the Moon: the UFO-like spacecraft Luna 3, which orbited the moon and made the first photos of the 'invisible' side of the Moon in 1959. The round red Luna 16, which was the first spacecraft to make a Return trip Earth-Moon-Earth and carried back Moon soil samples in 1970. And you can see video documents of the training of cosmonauts and recordings on board. There's a great cinema hall decorated with metallic walls moulded like cells, where one can lay back and enjoy a slide show, accompanied by cosmic-ambient music. It almost brings tears, because of the hint of nostalgia of the great Soviet Union former Conqueror of Space number one. You can be photographed (with your own camera) wearing a real cosmonaut suit for a fee. They also sell cosmaunaut's space-food, such as a tube with sweet juice inside, or very compressed bread, cereal bars.