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Centrifuge, Star City

by

ESA/S.Corvaja/Novapix

Reference

e-rus01-10001

Date

2007-08-28

The world's largest centrifuge, at the Gagarin Training Center, also known as Zviezdny Gorodok ("Star City"), near Moscow. This facility, designed for training and medical examinations of cosmonauts in conditions of simulated G-load, is used by ESA astronauts both for advanced and mission-specific training. 2005