Hi, mom! This weekend my host invited me to one of the most unique museums in the World – the Memorial Museum of Astronautics! 
Wow, it was fantastic! You can know more about famous cosmonauts, consider different spaceships and meet scientists of the past!
So, let me tell you about wonderful excursion and guess what? Masha’ve also explained me, how to use Internet photo albums. And now I can leave a comment to every picture I show! Hurray!
Our journey started outside from a beautiful park with many sculptures. Dates of the most known events connected with a space age are named on these stars. For example: 20.08.1960 – return of the spaceship with 2 dogs-cosmonauts – Belka and Strelka (Squirrel and Arrow) 
You can see flowerbeds and they must be empty at this season. But park keepers threw some painted sawdust on the flowerbeds, it looks so lovely.
This sculpture is so unusual! It’s like the sky, but in globe. And I don’t know some of constellations. 
And many other statues, as Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova - the first woman in space. She was selected out of more than four hundred applicants, and then out of five finalists, to pilot Vostok 6 on the 16 June, 1963, becoming both the first woman and the first civilian to fly in space, as she was only honorarily inducted into the USSR's Air Force as a condition on joining the Cosmonaut Corps.s.
It’s the Monument to the Conquerors of Space and it was erected in 1964 to celebrate achievements of the Soviet people in space exploration. It depicts a starting rocket that rises on its contrail. The monument is 110 m tall, has 77° incline, and is made of titanium. 
There is a soviet-style bas-relief on its side – Away, to bright and happy Future!!!
And a little Solar System!
Look at me – I’m inhabitant of Saturn!
The first a the most curious thing of main composition – the stuffed dog – Strelka. And also it’s a real spaceship Sputnik 5 – where they spent a day in space aboard on August 19, 1960 before safely returning to Earth. My host told me a real iterating story about Belka and Strelka – do you know that they were accompanied by a grey rabbit, 42 mice, 2 rats, flies and a number of plants and fungi? And all passengers survived. They were the first Earth-born creatures to go into orbit and return alive.
Strelka went on to have six puppies with a male dog named Pushok who participated in many ground-based space experiments, but never made it into space. One of the pups was named Pushinka (Fluffy) and was presented to President John F. Kennedy's daughter Caroline by Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. A Cold War romance bloomed between Pushinka and a Kennedy dog named Charlie resulting in the birth of 4 pups that JFK referred to jokingly as pupniks. Two of their pups, Butterfly and Streaker were given away to children in the Midwest. The other two puppies, White Tips and Blackie, stayed at the Kennedy home on Squaw Island but were eventually given away to family friends. Pushinka's descendants are still living today. What a beautiful story! 
Besides Strelka there are some “stuffed people” – it’s a real survival suit of Gagarin – you can see his photo on a background. And real furniture of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev’s room. Can you understand calculations on a board?
Then we saw a huge collection of meteorites with data about places of falling and weight. Wow, these stones are so huge! And we remember that have strongly scorched, so they’ve lost most part of their weight!
I always want to know, how seas of Moon are called. And here in Moscow I can do it! It’s a giant Moon Globe! Do you know that Mare Crisium is the site of the Luna 15 crash in 1969?
We saw a stand with photos of all Russian astronauts. Now I know that there are 122 astronauts in USSR and Russia. And near you can have a look at an interactive panel with all over the World cosmonauts. Look! I choose Austria and here he is - Franz Artur Viehböck - Austria's first astronaut. He visited the Mir space station in 1991 aboard Soyuz TM-13, returning aboard Soyuz TM-12 after spending just over a week in space. 
In spaceships experiments with vegetables were spent. It allows to study properties of weightlessness. Thus cosmonauts can not only use fresh products in food, but also improve atmosphere by the spaceship. After all so oxygen is developed and carbon is absorbed. Look at this poor facedown onion!
And some more words about food on spaceships. Of course, you can’t keep them on table – they would fly around you! So astronauts use a special refrigerator. This one is a working one – from a ship! And, of course, the thing that everybody heard about - tubes with edible paste! Don’t you imagine it, when think about space?
And last but not least object that I like is a bench where each visitor of the museum can sit down and feel himself among well-known cosmonauts! Hi, guys! Perhaps, I will become the first TV-cosmonaut? 
