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Topic: Soyuz spacecraft: post-landing and recovery
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Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 11-28-2010 08:32 PM
   
What happens to the Soyuz spacecraft after landing? |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 11-29-2010 08:59 AM
Some Soyuz return capsules made it to both Russian and international museums, some were even auctioned.There is even one at a children's playground in Baikonour.  |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-29-2010 09:13 AM
If the question is, as Phillip replies, the ultimate disposition of the Soyuz spacecraft, see: Russian Soyuz spacecraft on display for further examples.If however, the question is what happens to a Soyuz between recovery in Kazakhstan and it eventually ending up in a museum (or the Energia scrapyard), that is a story I have yet to come across and would be equally interested in learning. |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 11-29-2010 09:52 AM
Thanks, I was watching the last Soyuz landing and was wondering where they ended up. I noticed that some go up for sale. How much does one go for? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-29-2010 09:55 AM
Very few (in the single digits) have been offered for sale, and generally, it is the shell only -- all internal instrumentation is removed.The Soyuz TM-10 spacecraft (which flew to the Mir space station between August 1 and December 10, 1990) was lot 175 at Sotheby's "Russian Space History" auction on December 11, 1993. It sold for $1,652,500. Self-funded spaceflight participants have been offered in some cases to purchase their Soyuz for a price exceeding $1 million. |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 11-29-2010 10:21 AM
I guess if you have the money to go into space you can afford the ship as well. Thanks for the info. Adding a Soyuz to the bottom of my 'wish list'. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2476
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 11-29-2010 12:05 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Fezman92:
Adding a Soyuz to the bottom of my 'wish list'
Not me, it's used and it has a ton of miles on it.  |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 11-29-2010 01:29 PM
Ha. It's on the bottom because I don't have nearly enough money to get one... |
SpacemanT
New Member Posts: 6
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Registered: Jan 2015
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posted 01-08-2015 01:00 PM
Roscosmos must have massed about a couple hundred Soyuz capsules by now and I'm wondering what they do with them. I'm sure they have enough to give every science museum in the world one now.Editor's note: Threads merged. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-08-2015 01:08 PM
Even though Roscosmos uses the Soyuz spacecraft for their missions to the space station, the capsules remain the property of the company that builds them.As such, they are all privately-owned by RSC Energia. Most have ended up as empty shells (their instrumentation is salvaged and reused) in a scrapyard outside Moscow. As noted in the linked topic above, some have been placed in museums. A few have been sold (and then have been loaned to museums). As of Soyuz TMA-15M, there have been 124 Soyuz spacecraft launched to space. |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 01-08-2015 02:08 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Fezman92:
I guess if you have the money to go into space you can afford the ship as well.
The remains of Soyuz TMA-14 is at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. It was bought by space tourist Charles Simonyi after it came back, now housed in the building named after him. |
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