MOSCOW. April 8 (Interfax-AVN) - The Volga-Dnieper Airlines, the world's leader in transporting heavy weight and bulky cargo airlifted a mock-up of the Mir orbital station and several other museum samples of spacecraft from the Domodedovo airport to Frankfurt, Germany, a spokesman for the company's PR department said on Monday.
The mock-up and samples will demonstrated at the Russia In Space international aerospace show which is to take place in Frankfurt from April 12 to June 30, the spokesman told Interfax- Military News Agency.
The transportation was made at the order from East Art & Culture Promotion Gmbh - Bad Homburg/Germany, which is responsible for planning and organization of the show.
This year the show takes place under the auspices of the Russian Ministry of Culture and with the support of the International Cosmonautics Museum.
"Today's transportation is a visual confirmation of the fact that companies offering a world service level exist in Russia. Volga-Dnieper showed us that they are true professionals," the museum's director Yuri Solomko said.
The Volga-Dnieper Airlines is using the world's most powerful AN-124 Ruslan military transport plane. It has more than 10 years of experience in relocating missiles and spacecraft to all cosmodromes in the world. At present every third satellite is delivered to the launch site by the company's planes. Aviation and space cargoes amounted to 26 percent of the company's overall transportation volume in 2001.