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Since the 1960s all cosmonauts have been prepared there for space missions. In the Soviet era the town was a highly confidential and secured area, isolated from the rest of the world. Today, many Russia n cosmonauts live in ''Star City'' with their families.

The facility includes:
  • Full-size mockups of all major spacecraft developed in the former USSR, from Soyuz to Buran from TKS Spacecraft to Mir and ISS , were coexisting or replacing each other inside the main hall of the center.

  • A water pool used imitating Weightlessness was used for EVA (spacewalk) training. In 1980, it was replaced with a larger hydro-laboratory capable of accommodating a 20-ton space station module. The pool has a depth of 12 meters, diameter 23 meters and volume of 5,000 cubic meters.

  • Aircraft for imitating weightlessness, including Mig-15 UTI, Tu-104 and later IL-76 MDK, with internal volume of 400 cubical meters.

  • Two Centrifuge s, large TsF-18 and smaller TsF-7, designed to imitate G-forces during the rocket liftoff.

  • A planetarium developed in East Germany, capable of projecting as many as 9,000 stars.

  • In addition, the original office of Yuri Gagarin and numerous monuments to him and other cosmonauts.



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