Because of the unique experience accumulated by the Institute during all the years of its theoretical and experimental activities it was invited to participate in preparation and development of space flights.

The institute devised the basic principles of re-entering object's recovery, and developed recovery systems and soft-landing instrument containers.When R-1 and R-2 rockets were launched with test animals , they had the Institute's aerodynamic models mounted upon their rocket heads, as well as the equipment belonging to the institutes of Academy of sciences.

"The Flying Laboratory, developed in the Institute jointly with the Tupolev Design Bureau on the base of the Tu-104 airplane was utilized for zero gravity conduction research."

The Flying Laboratory, developed in the Institute jointly with the Tupolev Design Bureau on the base of the Tu-104 airplane was utilized for zero gravity conduction research.Experiments were carries out to evaluate the effects of weightlessness upon pilots, as well as experiments with animals, testing of various equipment, and cosmonaut training which used a dummy airlock to simulate extravehicular activity.More>>

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