The history of Yu. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre starts from the 11th of January 1960 when on the initiative of chief constructor of rocket-space technical equipment S.Korolev it was decided to establish an organization for the first space flight training

All of us at least once in our lives dreamt of flying. We have no wings like birds have, but nowadays wings are not necessary any more for people to fly. It becomes possible with the help of zero-g conditions. Let your dream come true! You have this chance if you perform a flight on board the IL-76 MDK flying laboratory like cosmonauts do during their space flight training.

You are brave and want to test yourself? You dream of feelings that cosmonauts experience during their real training for space flights? Then Centrifuge training is what you need.

We are offering you a unique opportunity to feel yourself a real cosmonaut working on the external surface of ISS in the ORLAN extra-vehicular suit by diving into Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory.

It is well-known that during space flight different off nominal situations may happen. But besides that, during the space flight training it’s important to consider such emergency situations when it becomes impossible to continue the flight, and the crew has to return back to the Earth with the help of emergency survival means.

On October,4th 1957 the first artificial satellite was successfully launched into space. This came as a beginning of fulfilling man’s long-cherished dream of penetrating into space. The first human space flight of Yuri A. Gagarin on board the spacecraft “Vostok” (12, April 1961) announced a new space era in the history of mankind

The process of cosmonauts’ training is different from training of other pilots first of all because after training on simulators cosmonauts have to perform their space flight straight away. Pilots have the opportunity to perform training flights with the instructor in real conditions before they do it themselves. But there is no such opportunity for cosmonauts. That’s why cosmonaut training on ground-based simulators of space station and spacecraft is extremely important. The aim of such training is to practice skills of performing special operations and controlling of manned space vehicles in general.