Ukraine: Former church houses Soviet-era space museum Inside a traditional Orthodox church topped with a gold cross, instead of icons, visitors can see a lunar rover and the helmet of the first man in space Yuri Gagarin. The 19th-century wooden church in central Ukraine is one of thousands of buildings that were repurposed or simply destroyed during an anti-religion campaign in the Soviet era, and has been the home of the "Space museum" since the 1970s. IMAGES of the museum AND SOUNDBITES of people who work at the museum