The #Sputnik60 exhibition organised by the Russian Centre for Science and Culture and the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos will be open to the public from 17-30 November 2017.

The opening of this space exhibition celebrates 60 years since Sputnik became the first satellite in space and changed the world forever. Launched by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957, Sputnik opened the era of the conquest of space.

The exhibition, which traces the main stages in this human achievement, will be inaugurated this Saturday 18 November in the presence of Sergey Krikalev, Executive Director of Human Spaceflight at Roscosmos and former cosmonaut who has carried out six space missions totalling 800 days in weightlessness, along with Igor Bourenkov, Executive Director of Roscosmos for Communications, Natalia Lokteva, Director of the Department of International Cooperation of Roscosmos and Yana Ourmantseva, Advisor to the Director General of Roscosmos.