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Asked by spacefan226 to Andrea, Charlie 🚀, Col Op, Kirsty, Vinita on 20 Jun 2016.
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Andrea Boyd answered on 20 Jun 2016:
If the country flew their first astronaut on that Soyuz then they usually request it for their national museum. After they unpack all the cargo, Roscosmos is happy for anyone that wants to take the Soyuz. If noone requests it then it just sits outside with other Soyuz in Kazakhstan or Russia.
That’s just the shell though. The inside has ALL the components taken out, and many are recycled and re-used in future missions. Russian space technology is very robust like that. Sometimes museums will put a display interior back in so it looks good, but the real space controls and inside are always fully removed.
There is one Soyuz 7K in the National Space Centre in Leicester right now (amazing place to visit if you haven’t already!) and I know of some others in Europe:
Soyuz 28 (11F615A8 #45) 02/03/1978 Gubarev, Remek (CZ) Letecké Muzeum Kbely Prague Czech Republic
Soyuz 29 (11F615A8 #46) 15/06/1978 Kovalyonok, Ivanchenkov, Jähn (DE – Landing) Militärhistorisches Museum Dresden Germany
Soyuz 30 (11F615A9 #67) 27/06/1978 Klimuk, Hermaszweski (PL) Muzeum Polskiej Techniki Wojskowej Warsaw Poland
Soyuz 35 (11F615A8 #51) 09/04/1980 Popov, Ryumin, Farkas (HU – landing) Közlekedési Múzeum Budapest Hungary
Soyuz 33 (11F615A8 #49) 10/04/1979 Rukavishnikov, Ivanov (BG) Museum of Aviation Plovdiv Krumovo Bulgaria
Soyuz 40 (11F615A8 #56) 14/05/1981 Popov, Prunariu (RO) Muzeul Militar Bucharest Romania
Soyuz T-6 (11F732 #9L) 24/06/1982 Dzhanibekov, Ivanchenkov, Chrétien (FR) Musée de l’air et de l’espace Paris France
Soyuz TM-19 (11F732 #68) 01/07/1994 Malenchenko, Musabayev, Merbold (DE) Technik Museum Speyer Germany
Space Expo (I don’t know exactly which Soyuz, but have seen one there) in Noordwijk Netherlands
There are of course a TON in Russia and Kazakhstan and a few in museums in Cuba, USA, India, Saudi and some other places that I don’t know offhand.
So… hopefully the UK has requested it and it can go in the National Space Museum too!!
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spacefan226 commented on :
That would be so cool! I’d love to go and see Tim’s Soyuz capsule! How much do they cost?
Andrea commented on :
Not sure. I could be wrong, but I understood that countries could just request their astronaut’s Soyuz for free as long as they paid the shipping costs to get it from Kazakhstan or Russia.