Description of the attraction
The Museum of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences accepts visitors by prior arrangement or during events in the "open day" format. The Institute and the museum on its territory are located on Profsoyuznaya Street (Kaluzhskaya metro station).
The museum contains various developments of Soviet and Russian scientists in the field of cosmonautics, some of them took part in scientific research and visited space, such as the balloon probe, which was used in the 1980s to study the atmosphere of Venus. Or the television camera used to shoot Halley's comet, also in the mid-1980s.
However, some of the developments that have become exhibits of the museum have never been in space. Such a fate befell, for example, the "mechanical arm" created for the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft. It was assumed that with the help of this manipulator, soil sampling will be carried out on Phobos, a satellite of the "red planet" of Mars.
In addition to instruments, the museum also displays mock-ups of the Regatta spacecraft equipped with a solar sail, and one of the autonomous stations of the Mars-96 interplanetary station, launched in 1996 to study Mars. This project failed as the station collapsed five hours after launch.
One of the expositions of the museum, which meets visitors at the entrance, helps to imagine and appreciate the scale of the universe. These are several stands with images taken with different degrees of distance from the Earth.
The Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is the main scientific institution that conducts research in the field of space and is engaged in the development and testing of scientific equipment complexes. The institute was founded in 1965.
