Russian Space Museum attracts numerous visitors

The Museum contains unique collections of space vehicles, simulators, space suits and various outfits of cosmonauts, scientific equipment, documents and personal things, awards and gifts of the first Soviet cosmonauts. 20,000 exhibits of the Museum will help the guests learn the history of manned space flights in the USSR and Russia, and also the life and feat of the first cosmonaut of the world, Yuri Gagarin.

In the Space Museum of Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, located 25 km to the east from Moscow, Russia, the unique exhibits reflecting all stages of manned space flights are collected, from the legendary 'Vostok' spacecraft up to the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station. There are exposed: actual uniform and awards of Yuri Gagarin, Vladimir Komarov, Pavel Belyaev (first spaceman in the outer space), the awards and suits, in which Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladimir Volkov, Viktor Patsayev worked for the first manned Salyut Space Station and died wearing them, all the space suits - Berkut, Sokol, Orlan - in which the cosmonauts worked in space, including in outer space, the cockpit of the Vostok spacecraft simulator, in which Yuri Gagarin and the first crew of the Soviet cosmonauts trained, descent capsule (module) of the Soyuz-4 spacecraft, space equipment and devices including Chibis pneumatic-vacuum suit, which had been to space, the office room of Yuri Gagarin, which is traditionally visited by Russian and international crews on the eve of their space flights, and official documents, flags, badges, and international gifts to the Soviet and Russian cosmonauts.

The Organizing Committee of Al Ain Aerobatic Show has made a contract with three cosmonauts who have explored space and conducted many experiments especially under conditions of weightlessness. The cosmonauts give simple explanations to the visitors of the Russian Space Museum, and particularly school and university students to encourage them to pay attention to such important science. The public have the chance to take photos with the cosmonauts and all exhibits. They also can learn how cosmonauts train, live, eat and sleep, as they are used to stay in space for long periods of time, sometimes more than 6 months, which requires special adaptation to such living conditions.

The surprise of the event will be the direct contact with the International Space Station, the crew of which will talk to the visitors of the Show, and that will be telecasted live on world major satellite channels.