Memorial Museum of Cosmonautic

The Cosmonautics Museum shows the history of Russian rocketry and space exploration from the 1920s to the present day. The museum is housed in the base of the impressive monument ‘To the Conquerors of Space,' an enormous silver rocket soaring into the sky on a 100- meter tall stream of glistening Titanium.

The monument was built in 1964 to commemorate the launch of Russia's Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite. The monument's granite pedestal is graced with a statue of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857- 1935), the founder of theoretical astronautics and the father of Russian rocketry. The base's sides are decorated with tableaux featuring scientists and engineers hard at work, Lenin leading the masses into space. It also showcases the renowned Russian scholars and cosmonauts, including Yury Gagarin, the first man in space.

The museum's interior is noteworthy and offers a good atmosphere covered with constellations, star clusters and distant universes. It exhibits a fascinating array of space paraphernalia from the very first rocket engine, designed, moon- walkers, cosmonauts' space suits including Gagarin's and numerous photos from Star City, Russia's cosmonaut training center.

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Contact Information

Memorial Museum of Cosmonautic
Prospekt Mira 111
129515 Moscow

Tel. +7952837914

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