Travelling and more: Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics (Moscow)

Journey to Moscow...
... so two of my new friends and me decided rather quickly to plan a journey to Moscow and it really paid of! My two friends went one day earlier than me, but I followed on Saturday evening. We stayed in the same hostel, close to the city center for roughly 8-9 € per night including breakfast. Of course, it was not a luxurious palace, but it was clean and somewhat cosy.

Link to the hostel: http://ugolok-hostel.ru

Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics
I have always been very interested in the first spacecrafts and in general in space missions. Therefore this museum was by far the greatest reason to go to Moscow. The museum is focused on the achievements of the Russian space program such as the first animals and humans in space, first space walk, first satellites, first lunar landing vehicles or the great Mir space station. The museum presents a lot of original models of capsules of Wostok and Sojus missions, space suits and other equipment. There are 1:1 mock ups of satellites and even the conserved bodies of the first two dogs who returned from space. However, the museum is especially dedicated to the pioneer Juri Gagarin, the first man in space. I highly recommend this museum to anyone who is interested in cosmonauts as well as to everybody who got some extra time of 2-3 hours available. Visitors who are not familiar with the history of Russian space crafts should rent an audio guide at the museum.
The price for students is actually 50 Rubles, however we got in for free (we do not know why, but we got the tickets when we showed our Russian student ID cards).

In the upcoming days, I will post more about the other sights that we visited!

Only a few of the attractions in the museum: