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Cosmonautics Museum

Welcome to the Cosmonautics Museum at VDNH! A fascinating history of Soviet and Russian cosmonautics awaits you on an excursion. You will learn about the projects of Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky to realize the dream of mankind on flights into space; about the first missile organizations and the formation of the space industry in the USSR. You will learn about the fate and achievements of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, the founder of practical cosmonautics. You will hear stories about the first artificial satellites of the Earth, about the first manned flight into space, flights of spacecraft to the moon and planets of the solar system. Triumphant victories and grandiose accomplishments, long-term orbital stations, international cooperation in space, cosmodromes and launch vehicles in our time, real meteorites, space photographs, real aircraft that have been in space - all this and much more at the Cosmonautics Museum at VDNH!