From:
Tim Duty
Sent: Sunday, 18 October 2009
To: CGC List
Cc: Tim Duty
Subject: [cgclist] space dog
Hello from Moscow!
I made it to the Soviet Cosmonaut Museum today. In addition to lots of spacecraft, there
was the space dog! If you ask me this beats the hell out of Lenin's tomb!
Funny how they embalmed the dog looking up to the skies....what a laugh!
Cheers,
Tim |
Google reveals this quaint
description of Moscow's Soviet Cosmonaut Museum at
www.moscow-life.com
The Cosmonaut Museum was
built in 1964 to commemorate the launch of Sputnik twenty years earlier and to celebrate
the achievements of Soviet Russia in astronautics. The small museum is housed in the base
of the highly impressive 'Conquerors of Space' monument, an enormous silver rocket soaring
into the sky on a 100m stream of glistening Titanium. Once you have stopped gawping at
this wonderful projection, make your way inside to the museum itself where you will find a
fascinating collection of engines, moon-walkers, model satellites and space suits
(including that of the legendary Yuri Gargarin!). The depictions of constellations and
atmospheric lighting (or lack of it) help recreate an aura of outer space. |
