
Originally Posted by
USfighterFC
I spent 5 weeks in Star City, Russia in high school. It's also known as Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre. I saw the centrifuges and underwater demonstrations of space station repair and toured through a mock Mir space station. It was pretty awesome now that I think about it. One day I was walking with the other Americans I was with and Alexei Leonov (sp) pulled up in an Eddie Bauer Ford Expedition and I had no clue who he was. Apparently he did the first space walk ever or for the Russians, I forget which. They have a planetarium there, schools, flats (where i stayed), a restaurant, a few bars. It was pretty interesting. You're in Sweden so you're not so far off. You should try to go there at some point. It would be well worth it if you're interested in all that.