{"id":783406,"date":"2026-09-26T16:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783406\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T16:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:34:12","slug":"lake-district-space-museum-launched-by-britains-first-astronaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783406\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake District space museum launched by Britain&#8217;s first astronaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sharman, who became the first British person to visit space in 1991, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s an extraordinary collection. We&#8217;ve got bits of Apollo 11, bits from the Russian space programme &#8211; it&#8217;s just an amazing collection of artefacts from space flight history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For it to be on show now in this beautiful way, as part of Grizedale Observatory, what a coup for Cumbria.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dulcamara said he first started collecting the artefacts after he attended a shuttle launch in 1996 and kept the ticket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s what started my 30 year collection off,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There&#8217;s thousands of pieces on display, I hope people will come and have a look.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharman, who became the first British person to visit space in 1991, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s an extraordinary collection. We&#8217;ve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-783406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}