Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center

55°52′28″N 38°06′54″E / 55.8745°N 38.115°E / 55.8745; 38.115

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The Yuri A. Gagarin State Scientific Research-and-Testing Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC;

The facility was originally known only as Military Unit 26266 or в/ч 26266, and was a secret training base for Soviet Cosmonaut candidates. The site was chosen for its proximity to Moscow and other infrastructure that would be essential for its function:

• Full-size
  Salyut Program, Mir, and ISS. These were co-existing or with time replaced one another inside two main training hangar halls of the center. Room 1 houses the Salyut 4, 6, Mir (Don-17KS) with Kvant (Don-37KE), Kvant 2 (Don-77KSD) and Kristall (Don-77KST) modules and a Soyuz 2 descent module simulators. Room 1A houses the Soyuz simulators (Don-7ST3 -old STK-7ST - for the Soyuz TMA; TDK-7ST4 - old TDK-7TS2 for Soyouz TM - for the Soyuz TMM; Don-732M modified for Soyuz TM and the Pilot 732 - for the TORU docking system). Other rooms house the Salyut 7, Spektr (Don-77KSO), Priroda (Don-77KSI), Buran, Zarya and Zvezda
  simulators.
• Zero-gravity training aircraft for simulating weightlessness (cf.
  Chkalovskiy airfield.^{[citation needed}
  ]
• A Medical observation clinic and testing facility.
• The original office of Yuri Gagarin and a number of monuments and busts to him and other cosmonauts.

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  Cosmonauts training with the Zarya training module in the neutral buoyancy pool of the GCTC
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  Mir training module
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  ISS training modules
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  Soyuz TMA training module
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  Mother of all centrifuges - Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
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  The mouth of the centrifuge at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City
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  Wide shot of the centrifuge (due excursion) at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City

Heads of the CTC

• Yevgeny Karpov (1960–1963)
• Mikhail Odintsov (1963)
• Nikolay Kuznetsov (1963–1972)
• Georgy Beregovoy* (1972–1987)
• Vladimir Shatalov* (1987–1991)
• Pyotr Klimuk* (1991–2003)
• Vasily Tsibliyev* (2003–2009)
• Sergei Krikalev* (2009–2014)
• Yury Lonchakov* (2014–2017)
• Pavel Vlasov (2017–2021)
• Maksim Kharlamov (since June 2021)

Asterisks (*) denote cosmonauts.

See also

• Johnson Space Center

References

External links

• Burgess, Colin; Hall, Rex (2009). The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team : Their Lives and Legacies.
  ISBN 978-0-387-84824-2
  .

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