Six Russian women on Wednesday clambered into a mock spaceship to begin a unique experiment testing how an all-female crew would interact on a trip to the Moon and back. For eight days, the female volunteers will live inside a wood-panelled suite of rooms at Moscow's Institute of Biomedical Problems, renowned for its wacky research into the psychological and physical effects of space travel. The institute in 2010 locked six male international volunteers in an isolation experiment lasting 520 days, to simulate a flight to Mars and back. "Such a crew is taking part for the first time in

World’s first woman cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova is expected to tell the visitors to Science Museum in London on Thursday about the future of space flights in Russia. As of September 18, the museum hosts an exhibition ‘Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age’. "The space exhibition will serve, I hope, further development of good relations between our countries and will enable the spectators to see what the age of space flights began with in Russia," Tereshkova who has the rank of the Major-General, told reporters.