This part of the exposition is about the history of human space missions. The era of human space exploration began when Yury A. Gagarin made the first human space voyage on April 12, 1961 in the "Vostok-1" space ship. Gagarin made a single108 min. orbit of the Earth. This part of exposition is most attractive. It displays the different types of the Soviet space ships of "Vostok", "Soyuz" missions, orbital space station models, equipment of cosmonauts, etc.
- "Vostok".
Full-scale model. The "Vostok" was the first Soviet space ship.
It consisted of two parts. Whole mass - 4,730 kg. Time of Earth orbit -
not more than 10 days. There were 6 missions of "Vostok" space
ships. Rocket booster - R-7 ("Vostok" modification). Designer
- Sergey P. Korolev.
-"Vostok-5".
Original Capsule of "Vostok-5" space ship. Valery F. Bykovsky
flew his space mission in June 14-19, 1963, completing 119 hours, 6 minutes
of space flight. Mass - 2400 kg. Diameter - 2,3 m. There is the signature
of the cosmonaut inside of the capsule.
- "Soyuz-34".
Original Capsule of "Soyuz-34" space ship. Vladimir Lyahov &
Valery Rumin were recovered by this capsule from space in August 19, 1979.
These multi-place (for three cosmonauts) space ships were designed in 1962
for the first Lunar piloted mission. Later, they were used for Earth orbital
and space station supply missions. Mass of space ship - 6.38 t. Mass of
the capsule - 2.8 t. Designer - Korolev's Design bureau.
