Military Academy of Strategic Rocket Forces located in Moscow is one of the best institutes of higher military and technical education and a large research institute in Russia.
Today, its museum opened its doors, so let’s go in!
The building where the academy is situated, is the largest building built before the revolution (it’s 379 m long) and an architectural monument of the 18th – the 19th century.
The museum of the academy tells its visitors about the history of the academy and its employees and graduates.
A rockets control panel.
These keys had to be turned synchronously by two officers.
A giant globe.
In the academy, there is a large collection of literature a lot of museums ‘would kill for’. The oldest book here is ‘About Military Service’ and it was published in 1484! The collection also has the first book on military science which was released in 1649.
In the background there is a combustion chamber of the first Soviet ballistic rocket.
This calculation device was made in the 60s.
The guide.
A nuclear explosive detonating fuse. Without it, a nuclear bomb turns into radioactive trash.
Experimental laser guns designed to be used in space (against aliens) where regular guns can’t be applied.
In the space department, there are a lot of exhibits which are still prohibited from photographing.
On the ceiling you see a copy of the first artificial satellite launched by the USSR in 1957.
Under the satellite, there is a ‘Soyuz’ space ship. The first docking of space ships happened in 1969 (‘Soyuz-4′ and ‘Soyuz-5′) and this is what the cosmonauts saw when they opened the manhole.
This is a space ‘bathroom’.
Those green balls on the reconnaissance ship are mini engines which are used for turning the ship around and the violet window is a photographic camera.
Space cameras’ film is 0.5 m wide!
At first, to receive the shots, they had to bring the ship down to earth. Now, they use digital cameras and there is no such necessity anymore.
This is a real reconnaissance satellite which worked for the Soviet Union and after that made a safe landing. The empty space down there was for explosives which were to destroy the tape in case the satellite was captured by the enemy.
‘Do not touch! Fatally dangerous!’
Solar batteries.
This satellite launched in 1964 allowed people of Vladivostok to watch Brezhnev on TV.
This satellite preserved some space dust on it.
This is the equipment from capsules in which astronauts land on earth. Each seat is made individually for each astronaut.
This is the control panel Yury Gagarin worked on.
The upper buttons on the left were made to protect the ship from astronauts in case they went crazy in space (becasue they didn’t know for sure how space affects the human).
A window opening the view of the Earth.
A tank with pressed xenon.
Location: Moscow
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How much money did the communists waist on this junk
why do you waste your time on internet, instead of going back in your cave?
Your political agenda is tiring and utterly boring. How much money US spends on all the junk in space, the military flying and wheeled junk, how much money Americans and EU spend on all the food junk, electronic junk, how much people spend on all the Ivy League junky education? So primitive mind and russophobia of yours makes you blind, you cannot just appreciate achievements. Pity you.
Pity you, you just got played for a fool by some jokester.
Rather boring comeback i might add. You can do better if you try.
AMEN TO THAT. I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with EVERYTHING you just said here. It really IS sad when a person cannot even simply appreciate the achievements made for they are regardless of who made them. Let’s not forget that the Soviets were FAR ahead of us in the space race back then, so THIS stuff was stuff that was BEYOND OUR CAPABILITY AT THE TIME! So, please, TELL ME how this is “JUNK”! It may be NOW because of how far technology has come but it sure as hell wasn’t junk back when it was used! This is some truly interesting stuff. You would be VERY hard pressed to see even HALF of America’s equivalent in any museum. What a FASCINATING experience I had looking this over. Do you EVER, in a MILLION YEARS think you will *EVER* see an AMERICAN nuclear trigger? HELL NO! This is the first time I’ve EVER seen something like that and it is simply FASCINATING.
much less than the US already spent on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the search for bin ladden.
The search for Bin Laden was money well spent, because now he’s swimming with the fishes.
Waist of the communists alright.
At least Russia still has a manned space program…
Comment was made by a different Hirsh, but whatever. Not like i care what most you think anyway.
This is not junk. It’s money well spent, whatever country is funding it.
‘Experimental laser guns’
many people think this is just rummor. but It’s real!!! Can you tell me name of that gun?
normal guns work even better in space, you dont really need “lazers”
Normal guns would be awkward in zero gravity. Don’t forget Newton’s third law of motion.
Depends on what you definition of “works better” is. Being able to shoot an even bigger hole through your spaceship isn’t always better.
It’s obviously a small calibre pistol of some sort
or a lighter
Can anyone tell me exactly where this is? It’s a long way from London to travel without knowing for sure!
jc_bromley@gmx.com
Just go to Moscow and ask around…someone will know where it is. Good luck..!!!
Great stuff. Interesting that this should post today as it has just been reported that the Boris Chertok, the designer of Sputnik passed away at the age of 99.
I like the control panel with the globe on it. It is certainly very ingenuous for the time period.
The one that is taken apart looks as if it has one of those electronic lighter devices to power it (piezo igniter)
“Experimental laser guns for aliens..” used in the Russian movie “Commies and Aliens.”