Students of International Education Institute visited Memorial Museum of Astronautics

Within the forthcoming celebration of Astronautics Day more than 30 foreign students of Moscow Technological University led by I. S. Solunova, Deputy First Vice-Rector and teachers of the Department of Russian as Foreign Language and Preparatory Department for foreign citizens of the International Education Institute visited the Memorial Museum of Astronautics. Now it is one of the world's largest museums. It contains more than 93 000 exhibits among which there are Yury Gagarin's space suit and other personal belongings of astronauts, lunar soil, spaceships, models of rockets and a full-size copy of the station Mir.

During the sightseeing tour the students got acquainted with the history of astronautics, surveyed unique exhibits, got inside the station Mir and the spaceship "Sojuz", watched a movie about astronauts training and touched extraterrestrial objects. Among the students there were the representatives of different countries, such as Nigeria, Cameroon, Mauritania, Congo, Guinea, Tunisia, Egypt, Vietnam, China, Mongolia, Iraq, Syria, the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Republic of Tajikistan.

The excursion attracted brisk interest of the foreign students who expressed the desire to continue studying the history and development of astronautics. At the end of April they are planning a one-day trip to Kaluga, home of K. E. Tsiolkovsky, the ideological inspirer and the founder of modern astronautics, to visit the second largest Russian museum of the same subject - the Museum of History of Astronautics of K. E. Tsiolkovsky.