We're at the beginning of the cold autumn season and the lush green trees sprawling the parks and. streets here have started wilting. I thought the word 'wilting' best describes the look of greens here as we transition from the summer to the autumn season. It was a lovely display of colors of pale green to deep orange to pale yellow and brown depicting an ombre. The temperature would range from 14º to 10º celcius all throughout the week with occurrences of 10 minute-rain showers that would make the atmosphere even colder, and how about the blustery winds of Moscow? And then there's the whirlpool of dried leaves dancing on the damp pavements. It had been fantastic so brrrr far.
Anyways...
It was Moscow's 869th happy birthday celebration last weekend and the city bustled with colorful festivities and spectacular fireworks display for the public to see and enjoy. But on this special day, we decided to take the opportunity to visit the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics located in Prospect Mira. According to the museum's website, most of the collection of relics related to the history of space exploration that are on display for public viewing can only be found here. And as promised, here are the photos that we took on our recent trip there.
(Note: The words in red are sourced from the information given at the viewing aisles of the museum.)
Hello, Mr. Yuri Gagarin, the Russian Soviet pilot - cosmonaut hero and the first man to travel into space in 1961. He greets you at the museum entrance. Hello, Noah's solar flairs darting out of his head, his thick, bushy, uncut hair greeting you. Entrance fee costs 250 rubles per person ( PhP 180 / USD 4 ).
Hubble Space Telescope. NASA - ESA ( European Space Agency ). 1990
FOTON - M3 Satellite 2007
A giant statue of Gagarin which is the focal attraction at the museum lobby.
Spacecraft Sputnik 2 which carried the first living creature to outer space, the dog named Laika, which never came back. 1957
Automated Inter-Planetary Venera-1 Station: It was the first space probe to be sent to Venus. The Station passed by Venus by approximately 100 thousand kilometers and became a solar satellite in 1961.
Automated Luna-3 station was the first in the world automated station with attitude control system in outer space. It was launched on Oct. 4, 1969 and orbited the Moon for the first time. It transmitted photo televised image of the dark side of the Moon.
A wall dedicated to a timeline of French and Russian cooperation in space explorations that dated back to the 1960's.
A wall dedicated to the Russian cosmonauts.
Some photos taken inside the International Space Station which was a result of cooperation between Japan, France, Canada, USA, and Russia to advance space research and exploration.
Flexible Spacesuit SK-1 with open type ventilation system. It was designed for cosmonauts on-board Vostok spacecraft. It was used during all cosmonauts' missions aboard Vostok spacecraft during 1961-1963. Spacesuit mass - 20 kg.
A miniature satellite...
ALMAZ Rocket and Space Complex. For the first time in Soviet Union this complex consisted of a multi-purpose manned orbital station, a transport supply spacecraft with a reusable re-entry vehicle and a capsule to bring information carriers to the earth. The complex was designed to perform defense tasks, to bring information to the Earth inside descent vehicle or using radio channels and to perform national economic and scientific tasks.
A miniature of the ALMAZ Rocket and Space Complex.
Can you spot the Philippine flag? Or Ms. Philippines?
PROTON Rocket is an expandable launch system that was first launched in 1965. It was used by Russia for commercial and space launches.
COSPAS-SARSAT System Satellite. 1982
Spacesuit 'Berkut' for a short spacewalk. In 1965, A. Leonov made the first in the history of exit from the spacecraft into outer space. Duration of his stay outside the spacecraft was 24 min. and 12 min. under conditions of outer space.
Reusable Transport System ENERGIA-BURAN. It consists of a heavy-lift expandable system ENERGIA and a reusable orbital spacecraft BURAN (BLIZZARD).
MIR was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986-2001 run by the Soviet Union and later by Russia. It served as a microgravity research laboratory in which crews conducted experiments in biology, human biology, physics astronomy, meteorology and spacecraft systems. It was succeeded by the International Space Station when it was deorbited in 2001. ( Wikipedia )
International Space Station. 1998
Space Food vending machine.
At the foot of the Monument of the Conquerors of Space which was erected in 1967.
