Apr 17, 2008 - Sale 2142

Sale 2142 - Lot 377

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
A WHO'S WHO OF THE SOVIET SPACE PROGRAM (COSMONAUTS.) Color photograph signed by the first eleven Soviet Cosmonauts, posing in uniform. The three members of the Voshkod 1 team are wearing their "Orders of Lenin." 8x11 1/2 inch photographic print, with all signatures in lower blank margin. In a handsome leatherette folder with a printed presentation to Svyatoslav Oswald. Star City (?), 1964 (?)

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Yuri Gagarin, first man in space and first man to orbit the earth; Gheman Titov, second man to orbit the earth, and first man in space for more than 24 hours; Andrian Nikolayev, first joint mission and first multi-day space flight; Pavel Popovich, second joint mission; Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space; Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin Feoktistov and Boris Yegorov, first 3-man mission on board Voshkod I; Pavel Belyayev and Aleksey Leonov 2-man mission aboard Voshkod 2 when Leonov became the first man to walk in space; Valery Bykovsky, joint flight with Tersekkova.