Cathedrals vie for chance to exhibit International Space Station’s Soyuz capsule

Posted Jan 17, 2018

[Anglican Communion News Service] Two English cathedrals have been shortlisted as contenders to host an out-of-this-world exhibition of a Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft. The spacecraft was used in December 2015 to transport an international crew of astronauts from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to their six-month expedition on board the International Space Station: Russian Yuri Malenchenko, American Timothy Kopra and Briton Tim Peake. Peterborough and Worcester cathedrals will find out in March whether the rocket will go to them, or to the other contenders: Millennium Point in Birmingham, The Forum in Norwich, or TR2 in Plymouth.

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