Moscow

P-001 Up up and away.... park-like Cosmonauts Alley, a wide avenue in northern Moscow leading to the Russian Museum of Cosmonautics and the Monument to the Conquerors...

P-002 Large stone memorials of important figures in the Soviet space program along the pedestrian-only Alley

P-003 Monument to the Conquerors of Space, erected in 1964 to celebrate achievements of the Soviet people in space exploration

P-004 A larger-than-life statue of Soviet rocket pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) sits facing back down the path

P-005 ... the front stone base says:

P-007 Monument depicts a starting rocket that rises on its contrail...

P-008 ... the 77° incline steel and titanium obelisk stretches to a height of 99m and topped by an 11m rocket pointed toward the heaven

P-009 Memorial Museum of Astronautics, also known as Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics or Memorial Museum of Space Exploration

P-010 Exhibits trace the history of space exploration, including the first interplanetary satellite flights, the first dogs in space and man

P-011 Sculpture and Vostok-space capsule used by Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into outer space, his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on...

P-012 Gagarin was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation

P-013 Space dogs Belka and Strelka spent a day in space aboard Korabl-Sputnik-2 (Sputnik 5) on August 19, 1960 before safely returning to Earth

P-014 ... during 1950s and 60s the USSR used a number of dogs for sub-orbital and orbital space flights to determine whether human spaceflight was feasible...

P-015 ... as part of their training, they were confined in small boxes for 15–20 days at a time, training included wearing space suits, being placed in simulators...

P-016 Originally the museum focused almost exclusively on the Soviet space program with major themes like Gagarin and Sergey Korolyov, and Sputnik and Soyuz

P-017 Museum contains a wide variety of space-related exhibits and models which explore the history of flight, astronomy, space exploration, space technology, and...

P-018 ... plenty of fun gadgetry, plus an excellently conceived display explaining how astronauts survive a space flight

P-019 Gherman Titov, first person to spend more than 24 hours in space aboard Vostok 2 on Aug 6, 1961 - to sleep in orbit and to suffer from space sickness...

P-020 Titov