Robin Stevens: Photos:

"Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age" exhibition, Science Museum, London, 28 February 2016


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Georgii Krutikov: "Future City", 1928
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Georgii Krutikov: "On Airlines" transportation unit, 1928
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Page from Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's "Album of Cosmic Journeys", 1933
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Page from Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's "Album of Cosmic Journeys", 1933
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Sputnik 1 (engineering model, 1957)
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Sputnik 1 (dismantled engineering model, 1957)
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Sputnik 2 satellite cabin and instrument container (model, scale 1:1), 1957
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Yuri Korolev, Chief Designer, 1969
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Sputnik 3 satellite (engineering model, c.1958)
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Luna 1 space probe (display model, scale 1:3. 1958)
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Luna 9 luna lander (display model, scale 1:3. 1970)
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Luna 16 luna lander and sample return capsule (model, scale 1:3. 1970)
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Luna 16 luna lander (model, scale 1:3. 1970)
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Venera 7 lander and parachute (engineering model, 1970)
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Vega container for balloon on Venus (engineering model, 1984)
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Bottle of champagne presented to the Soviet Union by Henry Maire, 1959
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Do not bet against the Soviet space programme!
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Vostok VZA ejection seat and SK-1 spacesuit, as used on Vostok 1-5, 1961
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Vostok spacecraft (display model, scale 1:3, 1970)
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Vostok navigation console, 1960
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Uniform of Yuri Gagarin
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Signed photograph of the British royal family, 1961. Presented to Yuri Gagarin by the Queen. Taken to the Mir space station by Helen Sharman in 1991.
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Vostok 6 descent module, 1963, used by Valentina Tereshkova
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Voshkod 1 descent module, 1964, used by a crew of three
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Over the Black Sea, Alexei Leonov's 1973 painting of his own spacewalk in 1965
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LK-3 lunar lander (engineering model, 1969)
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LK-3 lunar lander (engineering model, 1969)
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Lunokhod 1 lunar roving vehicle (engineering model, 1970)
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Soyuz TM-14 descent module, 1992, used for the 14th flight to the Mir space station
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Sokol KV-2 rescue suit and Kazbek-UM seat, 1980-present
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Sokol KV-2 rescue suit and Kazbek-UM seat, 1980-present
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Sokol KV-2 rescue suit worn by Helen Sharman during the Juno mission to the Mir space station, 1991
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Orian DMA-18 extravehicular activity spacesuit, 1988, with manned manoeuvring unit 21KS, 1988
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Orian Mars 500 extravehicular activity suit, 2007
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Mir refrigerator, 1988
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Space clothing
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Space doll presented to Yuri Gagarin during his visit to Japan, 1961. Taken to space by Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese cosmonaut, in 1990.
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Mir shower, 1986
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Soyuz Kolos-5d water supply system, 1986. Each astronaut had their own mouthpiece.
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Mir toilet, 1990
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Tissue-equivalent mannequin, 1969, with the face of Yuri Gagarin. Sent around the Moon in the Zond 7 spacecraft.
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