I wanted to make a special effort to visit the Moscow Cosmonaut Memorial Museum today. It is filled with a lot of displays, actual used spacecraft, and all sorts of memorabilia. Much of the signage, unfortunately for me, was in Russian. And, although my Cyrillic alphabet is getting better, I had to work even to figure spacecraft names. There is also a lot of international recognition, including a hallway featuring female astronauts and cosmonauts, and a hall devoted to Hubble Space Telescope and its images. .
I won't include all there is to see, but it will make a pretty good article in the Prime Focus some day.
The Russians are justifiably proud of their space program. Just one story. I was trying to figure out who was featured in one of the wall posters. Some four year old kid, walking along with his bebichka ( Czech, and I think Russian, for grandmother) points to the pic, and excitedly shouts out "GARGARIN!"
If a four year old can recognize and get excited by the portrait, that says something.
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