Moscow Museum of Astronautics will hold a live broadcast of the launch of the spacecraft “Soyuz MS-16” from the Baikonur cosmodrome. The launch will be made on 9 April at 11:05 Moscow time.
the Crew consists of three: vehicle commander Anatoly Ivanishin, for whom this will be the third flight, NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy, who visited twice in orbit and three times coming out into the open space, and a test cosmonaut Ivan Wagner, who will fly into space for the first time.
to Observe the launch will be on the site of the Museum in a social network “In contact”. To comment on the manned launch will be the leading researcher of the Museum of Astronautics, lecturer and promoter Denis Prudnik and senior researcher of the Museum tour guide Dmitry Eremenko. Video transmission from the Baikonur cosmodrome will provide the Center for exploitation of ground space infrastructure.
on the eve of cosmonautics Day, the Museum launched a virtual project #of Novikovskova. On the Museum’s website and its official social media accounts for everyone are available a variety of online lectures, lessons, games and excursions.
the Museum of cosmonautics is one of the largest science museums in Russia. Its history began in 1964, when in Moscow there was a monument “to the Conquerors of space”.
Today, the space Museum is among the three most visited museums of the Moscow Department of culture. The modern exposition consists of eight exhibition halls. The Museum’s collection includes more than 99 thousand exhibits: samples of rocket and space technology, antiquities, documents, objects of decorative and applied art, collections of paintings and drawings, stamps and coins. Also in the Museum you can learn about the most famous conquerors of space, to see authentic space artifacts, a model of the first artificial Earth satellite, the original remote control lunar Rover, full-size layout the base unit of station “Mir” and many more.
