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If you want to experience a genuine and unique Space Race, then a tour of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) outside Moscow should be on your list. This experience is like a cross between a 1960s’ Cold War spy thriller and being in the movie The Right Stuff (1983). On a city break to Moscow, you could prearrange a visit to Star City (GCTC, Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center) for a tour, where all cosmonauts are trained and even participate in actual cosmonaut training.
The closest experience you will get to actually going into space.
Professor Brian Cox using the Orlan spacesuit in the Hydrolab at the GCTC
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Treadwell, T. (2017). Star City - The Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. In: Astronomy Adventures and Vacations. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50002-7_13
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