The youngest and the original attraction Samara is a legendary carrier rocket "Soyuz", being the only true monument in Europe rocket assembled. The author of the project combines the museum building and the monument is architect V.Zhukov. The idea of ​​"space" is considered to be complex in Samara, the most successful in recent years.

Museum and Exhibition Center "Samara Space" opened April 12, 2007 on the main avenue, near the metro station "Russian" in honor of the anniversary of Gagarin's flight into space and the 45th anniversary of the Samara Space Engineering. The height of the carrier rocket with the building about 68 meters, and weight - 20 tons. The pedestal of the monument is the rocket-space museum with exhibits of rocket engines, landing capsule and many other equipment related to space exploration and rocket. In the exhibition hall visitors sitting in a chair original design, can watch movies (of your choice) on the screen - the porthole of the ship, plunging into the magic atmosphere of the "expectations of the cosmos."

In the spring of 2011. front of the museum has a statue of an astronaut in a bright orange suit a man's height. Opening of the composition was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first flight into space and "cartoon" look Samarians dubbed the sculpture - kosmopupsom. Now the area in front of the museum complex a popular place for photo shoots visitors and residents.