Serhiy Pavlovych Korolyov Museum of Cosmonautics

The Serhiy Pavlovych Korolyov Museum of Cosmonautics (Ukrainian: Музей космонавтики імені Сергія Павловича Корольова) is a technology museum in Zhytomyr, Ukraine dedicated to Serhiy Korolyov. Korolyov led the Sputnik project and was Chief engineer for the Soviet Union's rocket and space program from the late 1950s until his death in 1966. He was born in Zhytomyr, then part of the Russian Empire.

Serhiy Pavlovich Korolov Museum of Cosmonauts
Музей космонавтики імені Сергія Павловича Корольова
Former name
Zhytomyr Serhiy Pavlovych Korolyov Museum of Cosmonauts
Established1987 (1987)
LocationZhytomyr, Ukraine
Coordinates50.253627°N 28.677896°E / 50.253627; 28.677896
TypeTechnology museum
DirectorIryna Dmytrivna Dyachuk
Websitewww.cosmosmuseum.info

In 1970, the house in which Korolyov was born was dedicated as a memorial to him, a campus of the Zhytomyr Regional Museum. The museum achieved independent status in 1987, and the present museum building was constructed in 1991.

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. From 2013, 2.5 million visitors have passed through the museum's doors.

Next to the exposition space, a rocket launches a geodetic version of the missile R-5 (8A62) (the rocket P5 was the first to carry a nuclear charge, and the last one to upgrade the A4 (Fau-2 missile) and the R-12 missile (8K63) (the first one was developed in the Dniepr ) with an engine on high-speed components

There are exposition of an animal in space

Suspicious in space

There are models of devices:

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