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The Serhiy Pavlovych Korolyov Museum of Cosmonautics ( uk, Музей космонавтики імені Сергія Павловича Корольова) is a technology museum in
Zhytomyr Zhytomyr ( uk, Жито́мир, translit=Zhytomyr ; russian: Жито́мир, Zhitomir ; pl, Żytomierz ; yi, זשיטאָמיר, Zhitomir; german: Schytomyr ) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the Capital city, a ...
,
Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
dedicated to Serhiy Korolyov. Korolyov led the
Sputnik Sputnik 1 (; see § Etymology) was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. It sent a radio signal back to Earth for t ...
project and was Chief engineer for the
Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
's rocket and space program from the late 1950s until his death in 1966. He was born in Zhytomyr, then part of the
Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
. In 1970, the house in which Korolyov was born was dedicated as a memorial to him, a campus of the Zhytomyr Regional Museum. The museum achieved independent status in 1987, and the present museum building was constructed in 1991. The museum houses around 11,000 exhibits related to rocket and space exploration, including the Soyuz 27 descent module, a small sample of lunar soil, full-size replicas of a complete
Soyuz spacecraft Soyuz () is a series of spacecraft which has been in service since the 1960s, having made more than 140 flights. It was designed for the Soviet space program by the Korolev Design Bureau (now Energia). The Soyuz succeeded the Voskhod spacecraf ...
, the Vostok 1 descent module, and the Lunokhod 2 lunar rover. From 2013, 2.5 million visitors have passed through the museum's doors. Next to the exposition space, a rocket launches a geodetic version of the missile R-5 (8A62) (the rocket P5 was the first to carry a nuclear charge, and the last one to upgrade the A4 (Fau-2 missile) and the R-12 missile (8K63) (the first one was developed in the Dniepr ) with an engine on high-speed components There are exposition of an animal in space Suspicious in space There are models of devices:


Learning the Moon


Automatic stations

The Luna-1 model (E-1 No. 4) is the first apparatus that passed the Moon at a distance of 6000 km File:Luna 1 model 1 k 2.jpg A copy of the pennant that delivered the Moon 2 device (E-1 No. 6) to the Moon File:Vympel luna 2.jpg Model Luna-3E-2A No. 1 of the first apparatus, which photographed the reverse side of the Moon File:Luna 3.jpg Luna-9 (Е-6 №13) the layout of the first apparatus, which makes a soft landing on the Moon. File:Luna 9.jpg The Soviet automatic stations brought about 300 grams of the moon's soil, in the exposition there are samples of the moon's soil File:Lunniy grunt.jpg


Moonlight Program (E8)


Lunokhod-2 layout

Low-directional decimetre antenna
File:Lunohod 2 malonapravlennaya decimetrovaya antenna.jpg reflector Lunokhoda-2 File:Reflektor Lunahod2.jpg Gear of the Moonlight File:Shesternya lunahoda.jpg


Program N1-L3Н1-Л3


Monthly module E


There are mock-ups of the lunar module E from this program, which was developed in the Dnipro in Yuzhnoe


File:Luna spuskaemiy modul блок Е.jpg, Спускаємий модуль Блок -Е


Rocket N1

The layouts of the rocket N1u are comparable to Saturn V
File:Ракета Н1 та Saturn 5.jpg


The tape recorder Malysh-B

There is a wire tape recorder Malysh-B (main designer Babich A.I.) with automatic start from the thing, and the possibility of blocking control. It was developed for the monthly program - a spacesuit krechet-94. Such a tape recorder and its modifications Malysh-BM was used later in the flights of astronaut Beregovoi.
File:Luna magnitofon iz skafandra.jpg cassette for tape recorder File:Luna magnitophon iz skafandra kaseta.jpg Flight scheme of Kondratyuk File:Schema kondratyuka polet na lunu.jpg


Study of Venus

Venus-7 The layout of the Venera-7 apparatus, which was the first working spacecraft to land on another planet on December 15, 1970.
File:Venera-7 spuskaemiy apparat.jpg


Vega

There is an exhibition of the descent device of the Vega program (Veener and Galileo), which in 1985 made a soft landing on Venus and transmitted the signal for 56 minutes. Another part of this program was the study of the comet of Galileo, at a speed of folding 70 km per second.
File:Vega Spuskaemiy apparat vega.jpg


Study of Mars

Trajectory of flight to Phobos in 1988. Phobos program
File:Траекторія польоту к Фобосу у 1988 році.jpg Trajectory of flight to Mars File:Схема польоту до Марсу.jpg


The Vostok program


The first human flight into space


Layout of descent device Vostok-1 (first with a man aboard)

File:Spuskaemiy apparat korabl vostok model 2.jpg View of the porthole with a level of laziness File:Spuskaemiy apparat Vostok.jpg


Space program

Engine of the first stage RD-214 (rocket R12 and Space Missile)
File:Rd 214.jpg Engine of the second stage RD-119 (Space-2) Layout 1:10 File:RD 119 maket 1961 1977.jpg


Program Soyuz


Descent Soyuz-27 (real)

File:Spuskaemiy modul soyuza 27 4.jpg


Couch from Soyuz-27 descend module

File:Kreslo spuskaemogo modulya Soyuza-27.jpg


Layout of the ship Soyuz-27

File:Макет союза 27.jpg


The Soyuz-27 launch key

File:Kluch starta spuskaemogo modulyu soyuza 27.jpg


Dictaphone individual Soyuz-7 cosmonaut Dzhanibekova

File:Diktophon individualniy soyuz 7 dzhanibekov.jpg


Communication systems Zarya


One of Zarya's connection modifications.


File:Radio telephonnaya liniya zarya.jpg


Recorder Zvezda-64


The first space recording device that could suppress the noise of a spacecraft


File:Magnitophon Zvezda 64.jpg


Recorder Pigmiy


(Soyuz-Apollo program)


File:Magnitophon Пігмей-Б Soyuz-Apolon.jpg


Recorder Planer-68


Designer Dunaev


For work on the "Strela-1m" satellite. Recording 12 telegraph messages (length 10.5-12.5 s)


File:Nizkoorbitalnie sputniki svyzi magnitophon planer 68 12 messages 10,5.jpg


Recorder Tyulpan-M

File:Provolochniy magnitophone typlan m.jpg File:Provolochniy magnitophon typlan m.jpg


Astronauts's food

File:Їжа космонавтів Борщ.jpg, Borsch File:Їжа космонавтів хліб бородинський.jpg, Borodinsky bread File:Їжа космонавтів свинина з лечо.jpg, Pork with lecho File:Avariyniy zapas kosmonavta.jpg, Emergency stock of a cosmonaut


Automatic control unit P-12

There is a rocket control unit R-12. It was one of the most massive missiles in the territory of the Soviet Union, and the appearance of these missiles in Cuba caused the Caribbean crisis. It was the first rocket that was developed in the Dnieper.
File:Block keruvannya raketI R 12 (SS4).jpg It was the first rocket that had automatic control.


International Space Studies Program

There is a layout of the Interkosmos-1 Intercosmos device File:Intercosmos 1 2.jpg Spectrograph for photographing the sun File:Спектрограф для фотографування сонця.jpg Oreol 3 (Aureus 3, AUOS-Z-M-A-IK, ARCAD 3), the Oreol-3 1981 (designed to study the nature of the polar light) systems with power of signals that differ by 10-12 orders. The difficult task of isolating obstacles was solved 12 experiments (4 from the Soviet Union, 7 from France, 1 compatible) File:Oreol 3.jpg


Marine launch

Layout of missiles Zenit-2 and Zenith-3SL Scale 1: 100
File:Zenit morskoy start.jpg


Leonid Kadenyuk

Personal Cosmonaut Leonid Kadenukz mission NASA STS-87
File:Kodenyuk STS-87.jpg


See also

* Sergei Korolev


References

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