Apr 12, 2003 - Sale 1967

Sale 1967 - Lot 390

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
THE FIRST VISIT OF A COSMONAUT TO THE UNITED STATES Plan of New York's Idlewild Airport. An interesting map of the layout of the Idlewild airport, [ now JFK] with holograph directions for easy exit noted in red. Intended as an aid for Gherman Titov during his April/May 1962 visit to the United States. Np: 1962

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Signed by General and Commander of the Russian Space Corps General N.P. Kamanin.
Cosmonaut Gherman Titov become the second human in space on 6 August, 1961. He visited the United States a month after John Glenn's Mercury flight finally put the Americans into orbit in February 1962.