‘Cosmonauts’ launches in London

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Billed as the greatest ever exhibition of Soviet-era spacecraft and artifacts to be shown outside of Russia, “Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age” opened Friday (Sep. 18) at the Science Museum in London. Featuring more than 150 objects from the archives of the Russian space program, “Cosmonauts” includes the Vostok capsule that launched the first woman into space and the most complete example of a Soviet LK moon lander still in existence. The exhibition, which covers the full history of Russia in space, runs through March.

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