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Control panel

Author: Marina Zakharova

Published: 12 April 2011

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Soyuz-TM mockup

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Soyuz-TM mockup

Warning! Drill in progress

Drill Monitoring Room

Part of rescue kit

Universal rotating and tilting seat

Gagarin Monument, Training Center Lobby

Space Panel, Training Center Lobby

ISS drill module room

ISS module (rear view)

Module with folded solar batteries

Experiment in progress

Module’s control panel

Space exploration is joint Russia-U.S. endeavor

ISS mockup used in demonstrating the course of drills

Basin with ISS module inside to simulate space walks

Cranes lowering into water suspended cosmonauts with 100-kg suits on

Monument in downtown Star City

305-ton drill centrifuge

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