Cosmonaut Training Center. Yu. A. Gagarin: address, photo

On the territory of the Moscow region is a unique place that allows you to touch the mysteries of the cosmos. In fact, this is a whole city-museum, where on the streets you can meet living legends, who once conducted the most complicated manipulations outside of our planet under conditions of weightlessness.

Star City

The settlement was founded in which the Cosmonaut Training Center is located. Yu. A. Gagarin RGNII CTC, in the distant 1961 as a military town. Later it was reformatted into an urban settlement. The town, in which the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center is located, today has the status of a closed administrative territorial entity. It is located within the Shchelkovo municipal district.

Cosmonaut Training Center. Yu. A. Gagarin is located just 25 kilometers from Moscow. If you wish, everyone can visit the city museum, just get an admission to the tour. The nearest railway station, from which you can reach the Cosmonaut Training Center. Yu. A. Gagarin, is the "Tsiolkovskaya" platform. This stop is located on the Mytishchi-Fryazevo railway.

Population

The town in which the Cosmonaut Training Center is located. Yu. A. Gagarin, has just over five thousand registered permanent residents. The area is only three thousand square meters, which means that the population density is almost two thousand people per kilometer. In the best years there were more than six thousand inhabitants.

Residents of the town, which houses the Cosmonaut Training Center. Yu. A. Gagarin, proudly refer to themselves as the "stars".

Structure and address of the township

The very structure of ZATO is interesting - it is divided into two parts. The first half is residential. The second is directly occupied by the Cosmonaut Training Center named after Yu. A. Gagarin. The address of the institution is very simple - Star City, Moscow Region, 141160.

How to get there

Fifty years ago the town was not on any map. You could get here only by a special bus.

Only in the late eighties the route was assigned number 380, which entrenched him to this day. It leaves from the metro station "Schelkovskaya".

The leadership of the space center

What is so interesting about the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center? The management in the person of Yuri Valentinovich Lonchakov did everything possible to keep the object interesting for both tourists and connoisseurs of space.

In total, since the establishment of the center, nine people have been in charge, namely:

• 1960-1963 - Evgeny Anatolievich Karpov;
• 1963 - Mikhail Petrovich Odintsov;
• 1963 - 1972 - Nikolai Fedorovich Kuznetsov;
• 1972 -1987 - Coastal Georgy Timofeevich;
• 1987 - 1991 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov;
• 1991 - 2003 - Klimuk Pyotr Ilyich;
• 2003 - 2009 Vasily Vasilyevich Tsibliev;
• 2009 - 2014 Krikalev Sergey Konstantinovich

Management

The complex itself is divided into several departments:

1. Theoretical module, which outlines all the ins and outs of space travel. Here, the hardware of the ships, their device, navigation and other sciences that are directly related to flights are studied.
2. Medical. Cosmonauts must constantly undergo medical examinations, because any deviation from the norm can lead to unpredictable consequences in orbit.
3. Scientific module.
4. Flight training. Each astronaut can try himself as a test pilot on a light aircraft L-39 at the nearest Chkalovsky aero node. In addition, in the arsenal of the complex there are Tu-134 and Tu-154, which are used for visual observation.

The most interesting specimen is the IL-76 MDK, which will be discussed somewhat later. Thanks to this machine you can shortly overcome the earth's gravity and feel the real weightlessness.

5. Management of simulators.

Centrifuges

Visitors can see unique simulators for astronauts. In the first place, of particular interest are centrifuges of the type "ЦФ-7" and "ЦФ-18". With the help of them, it is possible, under terrestrial conditions, to recreate the conditions of congestion experienced by astronauts. For the centrifuge "ЦФ-18" a special cylindrical building was constructed on the territory of the center.

A "small" rotating part is just the tip of the iceberg. The main structure is underground.

Riders experience similar overloads, so they can often be found on this simulator. Specially for them, the map of the future route is prescribed. Centrifuges in the complex are unique in that they can dramatically change the direction of motion.

If desired, any visitor can experience himself as an astronaut. The price of such an "attraction" is, of course, very large.

The power of the centrifuge is twenty-seven megawatts! This is nine times more than the fastest train.

Hydrolaboratory

What else can the cosmonaut training center named after Yu. A. Gagarin offer? Photos of tourists say that visitors are very interested in the hydrolaboratory. On the terrain, this is a cylindrical structure, which is a whole three floors.

Hydrolaboratory is a container completely filled with water. Its diameter is twenty-three meters, and the depth is 12. It was here that the models of interorbital space stations - Salyut-7, Mir - were located. At present, the ISS facility has been built.

Here, the future cosmonauts perfect their every action to get out into open space in conditions as close as possible to the real ones.

An unbelievably beautiful place can be visited by everyone who wants a tourist.

The IL-76 MDK aircraft

Weightlessness can not be compared to anything! This feeling of complete freedom and serenity. For many years people could not experience it on our planet, "thanks to" the existing earthly attraction.

A special airplane laboratory can solve this problem. This is as follows ...

The plane occupies the horizon of six thousand meters. After reaching this altitude, the pilot accelerates the car rigorously at an angle of forty-five degrees. These fifteen seconds are the heaviest for unprepared people - overload reaches 2g.

For your information: the cosmonaut undergoes testing up to 25g. The maximum design of a spacecraft can withstand 30g.

During the start-landing this overload is about 5g.

When the horizon reaches nine thousand meters, the pilot leveles the aircraft and reduces engine thrust to a minimum. It is in motion by inertia that one can "catch" those half-minutes of lack of attraction.

When the echelon reaches a speed of six kilometers, the pilot repeats the maneuver and so several times.

Periodically, this flight is open to all comers. Of course, only very well-to-do people can give themselves such pleasure.

Conclusion

The space center in Star City is one of the most interesting places on the territory of the Russian Federation, to which any person dreams for which space is not just a word from a dictionary. This is a unique object, which truly should be proud of.