Ilyushin 76MDK - The Flying Zero-G Platform

We want to introduce the Ilyushin 76MDK of the Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center - Star City, our platform to provide specific missions in which we use the absence of gravity. The Ilyushin 76 MDK (MDK = Flying Laboratory) is used for the training of astronauts as well as for technological testing and research of various devices, units and equipment technology, medical and biological investigations of organisms and their viability under weightlessness and underweight. Also, we use them as aeroplanes
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