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By Lucio Ortiz, Special Envoy to Russia
For us it was all new and we could know a little more when we entered the Cosmonautic Museum, in Moscow, very close to the city. where we were at this stage. The place is a tribute to the golden age of Russian space exploration. And the guide says "We will travel back in time until the '60s, when everyone was fascinated by the great spatial inventions and opportunities to explore the space."
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And it was another joy, from the moment this envoy did not pay because the accredited journalists benefit from it. The person in charge of the tickets gave us a ticket and said "free".
The Cosmonautics Day is celebrated every April 12 since that day in 1961 the famous astronaut Yuri Gagarin turned the orbit of the Earth
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museo lucio3.jpg [19659009] We discovered space thanks to this Russian museum. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Russia competed with the United States; everyone trying to outdo each other in space exploration. In this area, the politics of the cold war took place in the cosmos. The success of Russia was undeniable when Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth in 1961. A large rocket-shaped monument located above the museum was built in 1964 to celebrate success and in 1981 the Museum was founded. 19659003] The steel and titanium sculpture is not only aesthetically impressive, it will allow you to easily find the museum from afar. With a height of 100 meters, the monument represents a space rocket that rises in the sky with a great trail of smoke that lifts it off the ground.
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In The Moscow Museum of Astronautics collection contains more than 85,000 objects of astronaut dogs embalmed with space shuttles. All that relates to the Russian space race is in this place, you can also see the Soviet propaganda (CCCP) accompanied by triumphalism and pride.
You can see propaganda posters, plus two of the dogs that have traveled to space and are now preserved by taxidermy (embalmed) techniques. The dog Laika, who was the first, did not return. There were 13 dogs that traveled to the space.
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You can also see a replica of the first terrestrial Sputnik, dating from 1957. It was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome, on October 4th of this year and lasted 92 days, completing 1400 rounds around the Earth.
Space suits are also shown, such as the one used for the first time in 1965, when the Soviet Aleksei Leonov made the first sortie of the ship by an astronaut in space
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In the museum of astronautics there are many models of spaceships, capsules and ferries. Visitors can climb a replica of a spaceship and draw conclusions from real spaces. They show the foods that they have eaten and in the containers from the original candy boxes. There is of course a preservative of fresh products with replicas of vegetables.
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To demonstrate that the cold war has already pbaded, they show a replica of the vehicle that the United States took to the moon and pay homage to Armstrong, Collin and Aldrin
After Russia and the United States. they did several space missions together and the competition was over.
The Museum has opened our heads in the aspect of "conquering space". And it arrived in Moscow and not at the Cape Canaveral (Miami) station, nor in Houston, nor NASA.
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