Some guys managed to take these shots in a secret department laboratory of the Moscow Aviation Institute. Touch the history of the Russian astronautics and missilery!

APDA – Androgynous peripheral docking assembly. A docking mechanism used at the International Space Station.

Pin of the docking mechanism “Igla”

First docking of two manual crafts: Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5

“Igla” operation showing stand

Some engine

Lander fragment

Space vehicle inside

The main hall: Soviet lunar craft to the left and two satellites

Lunar craft

Landing “leg” of a lunar craft

You may stand and watch these details for hours…

What a beauty! This serious face is an instrument module.

Porthole

Satellite

Micromotor for pressing a lunar craft to the Moon

A huge space vehicle with big antennas

Antennas

It is the very hatch from where a cosmonaut came out to the Moon.

“Mars-97” model, lower part – fuel tanks

Lander of a space craft “Soyuz”

“Open the hatch and take the key!”

The bottom in close up. A balance weight made of lead.

A student of the institute

In a classroom

Attachment point of a parachute system to a lander

Inside the lander, it is very small!

Habitable room of “Soyuz”

Chute boots of the lander

“Soyuz” space craft

Its onboard systems section

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