Last fall, Steve Lee, curator of planetary science, and a small Museum delegation gained incredible access to the once highly classified world of Russian space travel when they experienced the launch of the Soyuz to the International Space Station. In a Soviet-era holdover, the main Russian launch facility of Baikonur is actually located on the arid steppe of Kazakhstan, the famed site for the launch of Sputnik 1 and of Yuri Gagarin, the first human in orbit. Lee will share the excitement of being so close to a rocket launch, what goes on behind the scenes of the Russian Space Agency, and his thoughts on what is next for human spaceflight.
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