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Exhibition by Cosmonautics and Aviation Center at VDNKh's Space Pavilion

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Exhibition by Cosmonautics and Aviation Center at VDNKh's Space Pavilion

Model of the Vostok carrier rocket standing in front of VDNKh's Space Pavilion. The carrier rocket model was erected at VDNKh's Square of Industry on July 8, 1967 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. The model, manufactured at the Samara Rocket Space Center (currently - The Progress Rocket Space Center) weighs 25 tons. The overall length of the full-sized model of the Voctok carrier rocket amounts to 38.4 meters (the height of a 16 storey building.

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Exhibition by Cosmonautics and Aviation Center at VDNKh's Space Pavilion

Final preparations for the opening of Pavilion No. 34, Space, and Cosmonautics and Aviation Center. The center, with a 1,500 square meter area, will host more than 120 unique samples of flight and space vehicles, which have never been put on display in museums, exhibits of defense enterprises; more than 2,000 rare archive documents, photo and video materials.

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Exhibition by Cosmonautics and Aviation Center at VDNKh's Space Pavilion

Model of the first artificial satellite, Satellite Number 1, shown at the exhibition of Cosmonautics and Aviation Center which will be opened at renewed pavillion No 34, Space, at VDNKh. This is a full-sized model of the spacecraft which kick started the space era. This is an exact copy of the original satellite which was placed into orbit on October 4, 1957 from the Tyuratam station, which later became known as the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

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Exhibition by Cosmonautics and Aviation Center at VDNKh's Space Pavilion

A sample of Soviet semi stiff space suit, Krechet, developed in 1960s in the Soviet Union for expeditions to the Moon shown at the exhibition of Cosmonautics and Aviation Center which will be opened at renewed pavillion No 34, Space, at VDNKh.

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Exhibition by Cosmonautics and Aviation Center at VDNKh's Space Pavilion

Mir base block of the eponumous orbital station, which was on the Earth's orbit from February 20, 1986, by March 23, 2001 and which went around the planet 86,331 times, shown at the exhibition of Cosmonautics and Aviation Center which will be opened at renewed pavillion No 34, Space, at VDNKh.

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Exhibition by Cosmonautics and Aviation Center at VDNKh's Space Pavilion

Kristall - the firth module of the Mir space station, displayed at an exposition of the Cosmonautics and Aviation Center, which will be opened at renewed pavillion No. 34, Space, at VDNKh. The module weighing more than seven tons ensured the docking of the station with shuttles under the Shuttle-Mir program during the STS-1 expedition.

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Exhibition by Cosmonautics and Aviation Center at VDNKh's Space Pavilion

The modeol of the automatic orbital station, Almaz, shown at the exhibition of Cosmonautics and Aviation Center which will be opened at renewed pavillion No 34, Space, at VDNKh. The station, with the length of more than 16 meters, was designed for taking shots of the Earth's surface at any time and in any weather conditions by a radio-location set with a synthesized aerial aperture. A shuttle of the Almaz complex (with a height of more than 10 neters) is exhibited in one exposition area with the Almaz station.

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Exhibition by Cosmonautics and Aviation Center at VDNKh's Space Pavilion

The full-space mode of the liquid rocket engine, NK-33, shown at the exhibition of Cosmonautics and Aviation Center which will be opened at renewed pavillion No 34, Space, at VDNKh. The engine's development commenced in 1959 to implement the Soviet lunar program. The engine's operation started in 2013 as a first-stage vehicle of the Soyuz-2.1v light-class carrier rocket. The engine's modification was used in 2013-2014 as a first-stage vehicle of the middle class Antares carrier rocket.

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Exhibition by Cosmonautics and Aviation Center at VDNKh's Space Pavilion

The full-size scale model of the Mir space station with simulated docking of the full-size modules Mir and Kvant, showcased at the exhibition by the Cosmonautics and Aviation Center to be opened at the renewed Space Pavilion No 34 at VDNKh. Mir is the center's largest exhibit item. The model includes four modules: Mir, Kvant-1, Kvant-2, and Kristall.

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Exhibition by Cosmonautics and Aviation Center at VDNKh's Space Pavilion

Model of the tail part of an orbit aircraft of the multi-purpose aviation space system (MAKS) shown at the exhibition of Cosmonautics and Aviation Center which will be opened at renewed pavillion No 34, Space, at VDNKh. The model is a full-sized copy of the tail unit of the re-usable spacecraft which can carry out an orbital flyby both in an automatic and a manned mode.

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Exhibition by Cosmonautics and Aviation Center at VDNKh's Space Pavilion

Full-sized model of the Glonass-K satellite, background, making up the GLONASS global navigation system displayed at the exposition of the Cosmonautics and Aviation Center, which will be opened at renewed pavillion No. 34, Space, at VDNKh.

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Exhibition by Cosmonautics and Aviation Center at VDNKh's Space Pavilion

The model of the Luch 5A relay satellite shown at the exhibition of Cosmonautics and Aviation Center which will be opened at renewed pavillion No 34, Space, at VDNKh. The satellite was launched in 2011. Luch 5A is an integral part of the multifunctional space broadcast system, Luch, consisting of 4 devices. The satellites are used to arranged an all-day broadband connection with a Russian segment of the ISS.

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Exhibition by Cosmonautics and Aviation Center at VDNKh's Space Pavilion

The model of the Luch 5A relay satellite shown at the exhibition of Cosmonautics and Aviation Center which will be opened at renewed pavillion No 34, Space, at VDNKh. The full-sized model of the model has been erected at a height of more than 30 meters in a dome space of the center. The satellite weighs more than a ton and is longer than 20 meters.

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Exhibition by Cosmonautics and Aviation Center at VDNKh's Space Pavilion

A full-sized model of the Mir space station - the largest exhibition of the Cosmonautics and Aviation Center which will be opened at renewed pavilion No. 34, Space, at VDNKh. The module consists of four models: Mir, Kvant-1, Kvant-2, Kristall.

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