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Fezman92
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posted 11-28-2010 08:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Fezman92   Click Here to Email Fezman92     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What happens to the Soyuz spacecraft after landing?

Philip
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posted 11-29-2010 08:59 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Philip   Click Here to Email Philip     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Some Soyuz return capsules made it to both Russian and international museums, some were even auctioned.

There is even one at a children's playground in Baikonour.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 11-29-2010 09:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If the question is, as Phillip replies, the ultimate disposition of the Soyuz spacecraft, see: Russian Soyuz spacecraft on display for further examples.

If however, the question is what happens to a Soyuz between recovery in Kazakhstan and it eventually ending up in a museum (or the Energia scrapyard), that is a story I have yet to come across and would be equally interested in learning.

Fezman92
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posted 11-29-2010 09:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Fezman92   Click Here to Email Fezman92     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks, I was watching the last Soyuz landing and was wondering where they ended up. I noticed that some go up for sale. How much does one go for?

Robert Pearlman
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posted 11-29-2010 09:55 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Very few (in the single digits) have been offered for sale, and generally, it is the shell only -- all internal instrumentation is removed.

The Soyuz TM-10 spacecraft (which flew to the Mir space station between August 1 and December 10, 1990) was lot 175 at Sotheby's "Russian Space History" auction on December 11, 1993. It sold for $1,652,500.

Self-funded spaceflight participants have been offered in some cases to purchase their Soyuz for a price exceeding $1 million.

Fezman92
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posted 11-29-2010 10:21 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Fezman92   Click Here to Email Fezman92     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I guess if you have the money to go into space you can afford the ship as well. Thanks for the info. Adding a Soyuz to the bottom of my 'wish list'.

GACspaceguy
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posted 11-29-2010 12:05 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for GACspaceguy   Click Here to Email GACspaceguy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Fezman92:
Adding a Soyuz to the bottom of my 'wish list'
Not me, it's used and it has a ton of miles on it.

Fezman92
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posted 11-29-2010 01:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Fezman92   Click Here to Email Fezman92     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ha. It's on the bottom because I don't have nearly enough money to get one...

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Roscosmos must have massed about a couple hundred Soyuz capsules by now and I'm wondering what they do with them. I'm sure they have enough to give every science museum in the world one now.

Editor's note: Threads merged.

Robert Pearlman
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Even though Roscosmos uses the Soyuz spacecraft for their missions to the space station, the capsules remain the property of the company that builds them.

As such, they are all privately-owned by RSC Energia. Most have ended up as empty shells (their instrumentation is salvaged and reused) in a scrapyard outside Moscow. As noted in the linked topic above, some have been placed in museums. A few have been sold (and then have been loaned to museums).

As of Soyuz TMA-15M, there have been 124 Soyuz spacecraft launched to space.

p51
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posted 01-08-2015 02:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for p51   Click Here to Email p51     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Fezman92:
I guess if you have the money to go into space you can afford the ship as well.
The remains of Soyuz TMA-14 is at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. It was bought by space tourist Charles Simonyi after it came back, now housed in the building named after him.

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