Star City

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Star City

We bussed out to Star City this morning, through the old Russian villages with varied colourful clapboard designed houses.

Star City is a real working cosmonaut training centre, complete with real live cosmonauts. I couldn't believe it when Alexander Lazutkin, the cosmonaut on board the Mir space station during a depressurization collision walked by!

Microsoft Office designer Charles Simonyi was in the neutral buoyancy tank training for his April 10th blast-off for the ISS.



This afternoon, Liliana, Richard and I managed to find the monastery, but the museum was closed for the day. It's a UNESCO world heritage site that has mostly been restored - strange to see a building so old that looks so new.



more to come...15 minutes almost up.