Museum of Cosmonautics
Underground museum beneath a titanium rocket obelisk, holding Gagarin's actual re-entry capsule and a fragment of the moon.
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This guide to the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow starts with the titanium obelisk overhead, a gleaming rocket shape that chief engineer Sergei Korolev insisted be built from the same alloy that shields spacecraft from launch heat. It follows the seventeen-year gap between the monument's 1964 unveiling and the museum's opening beneath it, timed deliberately around the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight. Look up at the flame-shaped titanium above you before you head down into the galleries below.
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