I know about the newly remodeled Cosmonautics Museum in Moscow, but are there any other public museums in Moscow? Is the MAI museum now open to the public?
Also, in St. Petersburg, I know about the Gas Dynamics Laboratory museum, any other public space museums there? There is supposed to be good museum in the Moxeits Institute, but foreigners must get permission from the Space Forces to attend, and I have no idea how to do that.
Save up, go to Baikonur and get a good guide there (preferably 2, one russian, one kazakh) the whole base is a museum, and they also have a museum on the base to top it of.
Or go for work ESA, get yourself on a launch team and be like a kid in the candystore
There is Star City of course and the Gagarin statue in Moscow.
Also, do not forget to make your respects at the cosmonaut memorial grave stones set into the wall of the Kremlin near the large Mausolem that holds Lenin on Red Square.
AP
I am in St. Petersburg now and I tried to look up the space museum in the Fortress. The area is closed for reconstruction and there does not appear to be much activity. I can see a couple of rocket engines in the yard.
There is a small museum in Samara, located under a Soyuz rocket.
Is the Cosmonautics pavilion in VDNKh re-opened? I saw construction there last January.