A crewed spacecraft with Cyrillic inscriptions is something I definitely didn’t expect to encounter in Manhattan — but there it is.

It turns out that Greg Olsen, an entrepreneur and scientist from New Jersey, became the third space tourist back in October 2005. The trip cost him around $20 million.

With the change, he also bought the Soyuz TMA-6 capsule he returned to Earth in, and donated it to my favorite museum — the Intrepid Museum in New York.

“Soyuz TMA-6” stands for “Transportny Modifitsirovanny Antropometricheskiy,” which means a transport spacecraft customized for specific passengers, while the number indicates its serial number.

This particular spacecraft spent 179 days and 23 minutes in space, completing 2,817 orbits around our planet.

Here’s another fun fact: it was on this very Soyuz that Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori took into space a reproduction of the painting Single Mona Lisa by German artist of Soviet origin Georgy Pusenkov.

You can see the Soyuz TMA-6 module in the same pavilion where the shuttle Enterprise is displayed — which, unlike the Soyuz, never flew in space, but did fly over New York.