The Vozvraschaemyi Apparat, or VA spacecraft, was a Soviet crew capsule, intended to serve as a crewed launch and reentry vehicle. Initially designed for the LK-1 human lunar flyby spacecraft for one of the Soviet crewed lunar programs, then the LK-700 redesign, it was later repurposed for the Almaz military space station program.
VA capsule on display at the Collections of Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics.
The VA capsule of the TKS spacecraft that flew as Kosmos 1443, on display in the National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C. – this capsule was mislabeled as Merkur spacecraft.
The Almaz program was a highly secret Soviet military space station program, begun in the early 1960s.
Almaz space station at VDNKh (Russia)
Almaz-1A