Price: 0.25 euro
Year: 1971
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Matchbox label made in the Soviet Union, 1971, with an image of Luna 17. The Luna vehicle was the first of two unmanned Lunar rovers to land on the moon by the Soviet Union as part of the Lunokhod program. The spacecraft carrying Lunokhod 1 was called Luna 17. Luna 17 was launched on November 10, 1970. After reaching Earth orbit, the final phase of Luna 17’s launch rocket was fired to orbit it towards the moon . During the 322 days of operations, Lunokhod traveled 10,540 meters and returned more than 20,000 images. The location of the Lunokhod 1 has been uncertain since 1971. In November 2010, the location of the rover was determined within an inch.

Price: 0.75 euro
Year: 1960
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Set of 3 matchbox labels about the Bahx exhibition made in 1960. Bahx is a permanent exhibition in Russia about the achievements of national economy established in 1935 and started as an agricultural exhibition.
Now the exhibition holds 2,375,000 square meters (bigger than Monaco) with subjects such as: engineering, space, atomic energy, education, radio electronics and culture and has around 11 million visitors each year. It contains more than 400 buildings.

Price: 1.00 euro
Size: 10.5×7.5cm./4.1×2.9inch
Year: 1961
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Big matchbox label made in the Soviet Union, 1961, with the image of Yuri Gagarin, first man in space.

Price: 0.75 euro
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Set of 2 matchbox labels made in the Soviet Union, 1963. This set came in different color variations. This is the yellow edition. The woman is Valentina Tereshkova, she was the first woman to be up in space on the Vosktok 6 solo mission in 1963. She orbited the earth 48 times and she still remains the only woman in a solo mission. On date (2020) she is still alive and well and active is Russian politics.
The man is Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky (1934-2019), he was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. He was also backup for Vostok 3 and Soyuz 37. Valeri Bykovski was born in Pavlovski Posad, a district of Moscow. In 1960, he was selected as one of twenty Air Force pilots trained to be the first cosmonauts. He was first launched on June 14, 1963 aboard Vostok 5. Vostok 6 followed two days later with Valentina Tereshkova aboard, becoming the first woman in space. The Vostok 5 and 6 approached each other within 5 kilometers and had radio contact with each other. Vostok 5 landed after a flight of five days. Bykovski set a new record for manned spaceflight and, although this record was later broken many times, Bykovski’s flight remains as the longest solo flight to date.