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Scintillation detectors (SDs) based on application of organic plastic scintillators(OPSs), or of inorganic scintillators (IOSs), are widely used in modern space physics, and, generally, in cosmic experiments. Here we review different detection technics, as well as technologies for production of OPS and of IOSs different shapes, like strips and tiles (extrusion, injection molding, etc.), optical and physical characteristics of scintillators, and methods of light collection based on the use of direct optical contact, or of wavelength-shifting (WLS) fibers to couple scintillators with different type photosensors. Examples are given of the use of SDs in the historically and physically important past cosmic experiments, as well, as of modern experiments planned to be carried-out in space, or of ground-based SDs arrays, developed for astro-particle and gamma-ray experiments aimed to search for new (astro)-physics, like new states of matter, antiparticles, neutrino oscillations, and to study astrophysical phenomena and cosmic particles in a wide mass and energies range. Scintillation detectors hold great promise for future space and ground-based cosmic experiments due to their ability to high segmentation, radiation hardness, possibility to apply WLS fiber light collection and multipixel Si-PM readout. Especially we‘ll discuss our experience in application of the new scintillator Ce:GAGG in pixellated gamma spectrometer elaborated in the frame of Russia – Belarus collaborative project.