Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center

The Cosmonaut Training Centre " J. A. Gagarin "(Russian Центр Подготовки Космонавтов имени Ю.А.Гагарина, transliteration: . Tsentr Podgotowki Kosmonawtow imeni Ju A. Gagarin, abbreviation ЦПК / CICR ​​) was opened on January 11, 1960 in Star City (Russian Звёздный Городок ) outside Moscow. In 1968 it was given in honor of the first man in space, the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, its current name.

The center was assigned to 2009, the Russian Defense Ministry and since then, the space agency Roskosmos. It houses than the largest of the three Russian cosmonauts facilities for more than half of all Russian spacemen.

Facilities

The center has a wide range of training opportunities for space travelers:

  • In the main hall of the center there are replicas in original size all the major ships that were developed in the former Soviet Union, Soyuz and Buran, the TKS spacecraft Mir to the ISS.
  • There is a water basin for the simulation of weightlessness during training of vehicular activities (EVA). In 1980 it was replaced by a larger hydro - laboratory that can accommodate up to 20 -ton space station modules. The pool has a depth of 12 meters, a diameter of 23 meters and a volume of 5,000 cubic meters.
  • Aircraft will also need to simulate weightlessness used mainly Mig -15 UTI, Tupolev Tu -104 and later the Ilyushin Il -76 MDK with an interior 400 cubic meters.
  • The G- forces during space launches are two centrifuges, the great TsF -18 and a small TsF -7, simulated.
  • From the East comes a planetarium, which can be up to 9,000 stars to project.

Directors

The former head of the training center:

  • February 24th 1960-26. January 1963: Yevgeny Karpov
  • January 26th 1963-2. November 1963: Mikhail Odintsov
  • November 2 1963-26. June 1972: Nikolai Kuznetsov
  • June 26 1972-3. January 1987: Georgi Beregowoi
  • January 3 1987-12. September 1991: Vladimir Shatalov
  • September 12 1991-9. September 2003: Pyotr Klimuk
  • September 9th 2003-27. March 2009: Vasily Ziblijew
  • Since 27 March 2009: Sergei Krikaljow
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