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Intrepid Museum Established 1982 Location 12th Avenue and 46th Street, Manhattan, New York, U.S. Coordinates 40°45′53″N 73°59′59″W / 40.7646°N 73.9996°W / 40.7646; -73.9996 Founder Michael D. Piccola Director Susan Marenoff-Zausner Public transit access Bus: M12, M42, M50 Subway: at 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal Website IntrepidMuseum.org The Intrepid Museum ...
The museum houses around 11,000 exhibits related to rocket and space exploration, including the Soyuz 27 descent module, a small sample of lunar soil, full-size replicas of a complete Soyuz spacecraft, the Vostok 1 descent module, and the Lunokhod 2 lunar rover. [2] From 2013, 2.5 million visitors have passed through the museum's doors. [2]
The facility’s design allowed access to orbits with four different inclinations. By 1966, a dedicated fueling station had been established to support piloted spacecraft and satellite operations. The site played a key role in preparing early Soyuz spacecraft, including the original Soyuz 7K-OK and the circumlunar 7K-L1 vehicles.
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian, a Belarusian and an American en route to the International Space Station (ISS) was launched on Saturday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ...
The Soyuz MS-24 carrying Russia’s Oleg Novitsky, NASA's Loral O'Hara and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus touched down southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan at 12:17 p.m. Kazakh time (0717 GMT).
One of the museum rooms also holds an older version of the Soyuz descent capsule. In 2021, the Baikonur space complex was named as one of the top 10 tourist destinations in Kazakhstan. [43] In 2023, a plan was announced to add the Gagarin's Start launch complex to the museum complex at Baikonur. [24]
The Soyuz 7K-T/A9 version was used for the flights to the military Almaz space station. Soyuz 7K-TM used during ASTP. Soyuz 7K-TM was the spacecraft used in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975, which saw the first and only docking of a Soyuz spacecraft with an Apollo command and service module.
Since the launch of Sputnik and Yury Gagarin from the desert steppe of Kazakhstan over 60 years ago, the history of spaceflight has been measured in milestones. At 8.45 a.m. local time, a Soyuz ...