Icons, the Gospels, and Crosses Adorn Russian Space Station

This is interesting. Cosmonauts bring holy images and relics into outer space with them. An American astronaut, Ronald Garan, took a relic of St. Thérèse with him on the space shuttle Discovery in 2008.

CNA reports: The Gospels, four icons, crosses and a relic of the True Cross have been taken aboard the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), a Russian cosmonaut has reported. A photo taken by the station crew shows an icon and a crucifix floating in zero gravity in the ISS. Read more here.