Roscosmos State Corporation
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![Patch of the Russian Space Agency, 1991-2004](/Images/godic/202501/13/I8552-Russian-Space-Agency_large5501.png")
![The Hall of Space Technology in the Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics, Kaluga, Russia. The exhibition includes the models and replicas of the following Russian/Soviet inventions:
the first satellite, Sputnik 1 (a ball under the ceiling);
the first spacesuits (lower-left corner);
the first human spaceflight module, Vostok 1 (center);
the first Molniya-type satellite (upper right corner);
the first space rover, Lunokhod 1 (lower right);
the first space station, Salyut 1 (left);
the first modular space station, Mir (upper left).](/Images/godic/202501/13/Zal_raketnoi_techniki5501.JPG")
![Cosmonaut on EVA (February 2012)](/Images/godic/202501/13/ISS-30_EVA_Anton_Shkaplerov5501.jpg")
The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities (Russian:Государственная корпорация по космической деятельности "Роскосмос"), commonly known as Roscosmos (Russian:Роскосмос), is the governmental body responsible for the space science program of Russia and general aerospace research.