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Reisebuero WELT / Seeing the sights  / Seeing the sights in Moscow

Zvezdny Gorodok (Star City), which is located in the north-east part of Moscow region 30 kilometers away from the Moscow ring road, is a place where both Russian and foreign cosmonauts receive training for space missions. In its territory there is the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center and the Museum of Space Exploration. The center was removed from secret list not long ago, and now every traveler can get into the inner sanctum of the Russian cosmonautics.
Tourists may see unique objects here – a centrifuge where the space pilots’ vestibular apparatus prepares for accelerative forces during the spaceship launching and also in orbit; the hydrolab with an orbiting complex where cosmonauts practice EVA operations; other simulators for the astronauts training. It is interesting that you may test any simulator yourself, of course in an easy mode of operation, for example, get experience of life in micro gravity conditions, overload in the centrifuge, and also taste space food and wear a real spacesuit.
In the museum you will be able to see spacesuits and other equipment, scientific devices, the first space mission control and the first space rocket, models of space vehicles and, above all, full-scale copies of the legendary Mir orbital station and the Soyuz spacecraft. You may visit the private office of Yuri Gagarin, the first Russian space pilot. A planetarium is open that simulate the starry sky as it looks like at a height of 500 kilometers above sea level.

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