Eleven pupils from Abingdon School and 18 pupils from St Helen’s and St Katharine’s School in Abingdon became only the second British school group to live and work at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, 30 miles outside Moscow.
The students spent four nights at the Kosmonaut Hostel within the Star City complex, which is the centre for Russian space training.
Under the guidance of former NASA astronaut Mike Foale, they undertook a range of training exercises.
Dr Foale was one of the first NASA astronauts to live in Star City, where he learned to pilot the Soyuz space capsule and to live and work on board the USSR’s Mir Space Station.
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