Page from Tsiolkovsky's Album of Cosmic Journeys

Tsiolkovsky sketched his visions of space flight for Vasilii Zhuravlev's film Cosmic Journey. They foretold today's space missions, with recognisable scenes of spacewalks, and items tied down in the spacecraft to stop them floating away. One cosmonaut is even about to rescue a colleague whose lifeline has been severed!

Source: Archive of the National Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation
Credit: The Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Photo: State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO
Object nos: L2014-4239 - L2014-4248