Japanese space doll

In December 1990 the first Japanese cosmonaut, Toyohiro Akiyama, suspended this doll in the cabin to show when his Soyuz spacecraft entered orbit and became weightless.

Source: Museum of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre
Credit: The Yuri A Gagarin State Scientific Research and Testing Cosmonaut Training Museum
Photo: State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO
Object no: L2014-4368