Meet Our Cosmonauts in London!

And don't miss this once-in-a-life chance if you're lucky enough to be in London till March 13, 2016.

Story of space exploration is the story of great achievements of the USSR. The Sputnik opened the sapace age on October 4, First ever human in space, Yuri Gagarin, started his exciting travel as a 1st Lieutenant, and landed as a Major of the Soviet Airforce.

Those who will make it to visit the exhibition in the Science Museum, will see:

50 to the 1st Spacewalk!

It was on March 18, 1965, that Alexey Leonov for the first time in the history of space exploration (which was absolutely not that long then) left his spacecraft for some 12+ minutes.

It was 10 years before the USSR and the USA at least tried to do something together in space (and Alexey Leonov took part in this as well!).

God only knows how great could be successes achieved if both superpowers turned the space exploration program into a joint demilitarized enterprise. But the history knows no "ifs"; so it was a USSR citizen and communist, colonel-lieutenant Leonov who did that step for mankind/

So, in fact, it was a part of the Soviet program of Lunar exploration, which was lost to the USA and never implemented. But this is another story.