The UK has bought the capsule which sent Tim Peake into space and returned him to Earth.
BBC News has learned that the vehicle will be go on display in the Science Museum in London in early 2017.
The Russian Soyuz TMA-19M craft has been refurbished, but is still slightly singed from re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere.
Major Peake told BBC News that he was “absolutely delighted” to hear his spacecraft would be brought to the UK.
“Hopefully it may act as an inspiration for the next generation of scientists and engineers,” he said.
Why refurbish it? Would it have been reused?
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December 5, 2016 at 5:01 pm