Science Museum
National museum of science and technology housing over three hundred thousand objects spanning five centuries of discovery.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Science Museum follows Helen Sharman, a 26-year-old chemist at a chocolate factory in 1989 when a radio ad seeking an astronaut, no experience necessary, sent her career in an unexpected direction. Nearly 13,000 people applied; she was chosen live on television and spent eighteen months training in Star City outside Moscow during the last years of the Cold War. You'll find the actual pressure suit she wore on display a few feet from where you stand.
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