Memorialniy moezey kosmonavtiki / Музей космонавтики / The Museum of Cosmonautics
Prospekt Mira, 111
Moscow
Russia, 129223
+7 499 750 2300
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday 10:00 – 19:00
Thursday, Saturday 10:00 – 21:00
Admission fee
The Museum of Cosmonautics, 111 Prospekt Mira, VDNKh subway station, Moscow, Russia
If coming from downtown, exit the metro station near the front of the train, and after exiting the station, turn left. The Museum is located in the base of The Monument to the Conquerors of Space.
Memorialniy moezey kosmonavtiki / Музей космонавтики / The Museum of Cosmonautics is located within the base of the Monument to the Conquerors of Space in the north-east of the city. The museum contains a wide variety of Soviet and Russian space-related exhibits and models which explore the history of flight; astronomy; space exploration; space technology; and space in the arts. According to the Russian tourist board, the museum’s collection holds approximately 85,000 different items and receives approximately 300,000 visitors yearly.
Memorialniy moezey kosmonavtiki has added new sections dedicated to space programs worldwide, including the USA, Europe, China and the International Space Station.
On display
– Vostok spacecraft, on which Gagarin made his first space flight, scale 1:1;
– the satellite of automatic station “Luna-9”, which on February 3, 1966 sat on the Moon, scale 1:1;
– automatic interplanetary station “Venus-1”, launched in February 1961, which passed at a distance of 100 thousand km from the planet’s surface, scale 1:1;
– the first domestic experimental liquid-propellant missile on hybrid rocket fuel “GIRD-09” designed by Mikhail Tikhonravov, scale 1:1;
– base unit of MIR orbital complex (you can enter it), scale 1:1;
– Lunokhod-1 self-propelled spacecraft – active functioning duration of such spacecraft on the Moon was 306 days at 1:1 scale;
– artificial Earth satellite “Glonass-M”, scale 1:2,5;
– Lunar-16 automatic station, which delivered lunar soil samples to Earth in September 1970, scale 1:3;
– spacecraft of international satellite system “Cospas-Sarsat” installed on airplanes and land objects, scale 1:5;
– the Soyuz-Apollo spacecraft of the USSR-U.S., which made its first docking in space, scale 1:10;
– Proton launch vehicle (scale 1:10) injected into near-Earth orbits by Proton, Rainbow, Screen, Horizon spacecraft, Salyut, MIR, ISS orbital stations, artificial satellites;
– multiple-use Energia-Buran transport space system, 1:10 scale;
– ISS – the most visited space station in the history of astronautics, scale 1:20;
– launch complex of Baikonur cosmodrome with “Soyuz” launch vehicle, scale 1:72;
– international Sea Launch rocket and space complex (scale 1:72) – a joint project of the USA, Russia, Norway and Ukraine, designed to launch spacecraft from the Pacific Ocean;
– mock-up of Soyuz spacecraft, including domestic compartment, TMA-4 Soyuz spacecraft launched, instrument and assembly compartment.
Photos Rob Vogelaar