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Sharman, who became the first British person to visit space in 1991, said: “It’s an extraordinary collection. We’ve got bits of Apollo 11, bits from the Russian space programme – it’s just an amazing collection of artefacts from space flight history.<\/p>\n

“It tells its own story of space history, but also of the people that went and the items that were important to them.<\/p>\n

“For it to be on show now in this beautiful way, as part of Grizedale Observatory, what a coup for Cumbria.”<\/p>\n

The museum contains a variety of pieces ranging from autographed photos and signatures of prominent people in space flight to parts of actual space craft.<\/p>\n

Dulcamara said he first started collecting the artefacts after he attended a shuttle launch in 1996 and kept the ticket.<\/p>\n

“That’s what started my 30 year collection off,” he said. “There’s thousands of pieces on display, I hope people will come and have a look.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Sharman, who became the first British person to visit space in 1991, said: “It’s an extraordinary collection. We’ve got bits of Apollo 11, bits from the Russian space programme – it’s just an amazing collection of artefacts from space flight history. “It tells its own story of space history, but also of the people that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[11849,3975,1374,1505,3986,7979,529],"class_list":["post-61493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-astronaut","tag-britains","tag-district","tag-lake","tag-launched","tag-museum","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61495,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61493\/revisions\/61495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}