Soyuz Spaceships Join Space Shuttles at Museums

Space Tourists' Spacecraft to Join Shuttle Exhibits on Both Coasts

by Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor

Date: 09 December 2011 Time: 06:06 PM ET

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The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft seen after landing in Kazakhstan on April 8, 2009 with self-financed space traveler Charles Simonyi aboard. Now his property, Simonyi has loaned the capsule to The Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington, for display in their new Charles Simonyi Space Gallery. CREDIT: NASA/Bill Ingalls View full size image

A self-funded space traveler loaned his Russian spacecraft to a museum Thursday (Dec. 8), where it will be exhibited near a full-size mockup of a U.S. space shuttle.
The donation was anything but a common occurrence, but it happened to be the second time in less than a month.

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