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Topic: Russian space hardware on display in the US
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CaptainKoloth New Member Posts: 4 From: Palmdale, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2016
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posted 02-07-2016 10:46 PM
I'm going to be making a cross country road trip this summer. Having seen just about every major American spacecraft in the various museums across the country, I was wondering what if any Russian space hardware is on display in the United States. I know of the Soyuz capsules at the Museum of Flight in Seattle and at the National Air and Space Museum; is there anything else of note currently on display anywhere in the US? It's going to be a long trip, pretty much any location in the country is fair game (but outside the U.S., not helpful). Things other than whole spacecraft are of interest too, suits for example. |
MarylandSpace Member Posts: 1337 From: Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 02-07-2016 10:54 PM
Greg Olsen's Soyuz TMA-6 capsule is on display at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City's harbor. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-07-2016 11:05 PM
A few displays of note: - The Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas displays a Cosmos module with a Vostok ejection seat and a replica Voskhod with flight-ready Volga airlock, as well as a replica Soyuz as part of an Apollo-Soyuz Test Project spacecraft display.
- Space Center Houston has a flown Orlan spacesuit and on the Level 9 tour, you can see the Soyuz trainer in Johnson Space Center's Space Vehicle Mockup Facility.
- The Tommy Bartlett Exploratory in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin displays an authentic core module built for the Russian space station Mir.
- The Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, California has the 1971 Soyuz 7K-0K descent module, a toilet from the Mir space station and Sokol and Orlan spacesuits.
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music_space Member Posts: 1179 From: Canada Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 02-08-2016 10:43 AM
The MIR module in Wisconsin has been laid out with a slight roll — about 10 degrees. The floor on which the visitors walk is level, and the total effect is one of slight disorientation. Very effective and impressive!And if you go through Wisconsin, check out the Sparta County Museum. Perhaps they still have the section dedicated to Sparta-born 'Deke' Slayton. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-08-2016 11:14 AM
If you do visit the National Air and Space Museum, in addition to Soyuz TM-10, the Space Race gallery includes a TKS capsule, Yuri Gagarin's Vostok training suit and Alexei Leonov's military uniform.In the Moving Beyond Earth gallery is Norm Thagard's Soyuz seat liner and Dennis Tito's Sokol spacesuit. And on the subject of Sokol suits, Richard Garriott's suit is on display next to his father's Skylab suit in the Davidson Center for Space Exploration at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. |
onesmallstep Member Posts: 1310 From: Staten Island, New York USA Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 02-09-2016 04:01 PM
In addition to the downtown Washington Air and Space Museum site, the Udvar-Hazy Center next to Dulles Airport in Chantilly, Virginia has several items of manned and unmanned Russian space hardware in the McDonnell Space Hangar, the biggest of which is a Vega probe engineering model. Other pieces are displayed in the Space Science section.In the Space Race gallery downtown, there is also a Voskhod 2 training airlock used by Leonov, and a flight suit and survival knife used on Voskhod 1. One note about the Norm Thagard Soyuz seat liner in the Moving Beyond Earth gallery: A check of the 'Collections' search function on the museum's website found it is not currently on display (it may be wrong), but it does list Shannon Lucid's 'Penguin suit' used by her on board Mir. |
SkyMan1958 Member Posts: 867 From: CA. Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 02-10-2016 12:08 AM
The Space Station Museum in Novato, CA has a variety of smaller items, such as an unflown Soyuz seat that you can sit in, as well as unflown Soyuz and MIR instrument panels, that you can touch and flip switches on. There are also a variety of unflown Soviet/Russian space suits; Buran, Orlan etc. It's a great little museum to spend a few hours in if you are in the San Francisco area. It's roughly 15 to 20 minutes north of SF once you've gotten over the Golden Gate Bridge. |
Liembo Member Posts: 583 From: Bothell, WA Registered: Jan 2013
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posted 02-10-2016 12:33 AM
The Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington has the descent module from TMA-14. They also have a recovered Resurs 500 capsule. There is also a display of an SK-1 Vostok space suit and Vostok VZA ejection seat. |
alanh_7 Member Posts: 1252 From: Ajax, Ontario, Canada Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 02-10-2016 10:44 AM
Not the U.S., but Chris Hadfield's Sokol spacesuit is on display in Ottawa at the Canadian Air and Space Museum. |