Guantánamo.- The Cosmonautics Gallery will be opened late June in Guantánamo Provincial Museum, a space to to recall the feat performed during September 18 to 26, 1980, the Soviet Commander Yuri Romanenko and the first Latin American cosmonaut and local from Guantánamo, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.
After nearly three decades of their descent, the initial work began in December when the Soyuz 38 module was transferred from the vicinity of the Mariana Grajales Revolution Square to the museum, the former Guantánamo Penitentiary.
Diego Bosh, director of the Cultural Heritage Center, said that together with the artifact is kept the Guantanamo Tamayo´s personal belongings, including gloves and special shoes Dome-Sand-501.
Those shoes were part of the experiment "Support", carried into space by the crew, in order to determine the cause of the damage provoked by the movements of astronauts for prolonged weightlessness; the results helped to improve the design of a cosmic shoes best to conserve the normal foot´s structure.
The Cosmonautics Gallery to be open in Guantánamo is an approach to the crossing of the first Cuban cosmonaut, nearly 30 years of the news that shocked the island´s inhabitants.
Translation : Ilia Charon
