National Space Center, Leicester (must see)

The National Space Center is one of the United Kingdom's leading visitor attractions that is devoted to space science and astronomy. The tower is 42 meters tall. The center arose from a partnership between the University of Leicester's Space Research Center and local government agencies. It is run as an educational charity and offers science workshops for school children of all ages. The Center has on display the only known Soyuz spacecraft in Western Europe (there is one at the Smithsonian Institution as part of their Apollo-Soyuz Test Project display). The center has six main galleries of exhibits and visitor activities covering space flight, astronomy and cosmology. The attraction also includes a Digistar 3 dome cinema and planetarium, a gift shop and a restaurant. The restaurant is ominously situated beneath the two nozzles of the Blue Streak and PGM-17 Thor rockets.