Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 2x1cm./0.7×0.3inch.
Space pin made in the Soviet Union with the earth, a rocket and the “CCCP”.
Pins Soviet Russia Space
(R.58.20)
Price: 65.00 euro
Size: 31x22gr./12.2×8.6inch.
Weight: 590gr./20.8oz.
Interkosmos pin set made 1980. Box with 7 pins and 1 large plague (8cm./3.1inch). Soyuz 36 was a 1980 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the 11th mission to and ninth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 36 crew were the first to visit the long duration Soyuz 35 resident crew.
Soyuz 36 carried Valery Kubasov and Bertalan Farkas, the first Hungarian cosmonaut, into space. They swapped Soyuz craft with the long duration crew and returned to earth in Soyuz 35; a later crew used their craft to return to Earth.
The flight was the fifth Intercosmos flight whereby guest cosmonauts from Soviet allied nations would visit the space station, typically for about a week. The flight was only the second time a Soviet mission had a civilian commander.
(R.65.20)
Price: 75.00 euro
Size: 11.5×11.5cm./4.5×4.5inch.
Weight: 96gr./3.3oz.
Interkosmos Silver pins set made in 1980. All 3 pins have a silver stamp.
Soyuz 36 was a 1980 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the 11th mission to and ninth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 36 crew were the first to visit the long duration Soyuz 35 resident crew.
Soyuz 36 carried Valery Kubasov and Bertalan Farkas, the first Hungarian cosmonaut, into space. They swapped Soyuz craft with the long duration crew and returned to earth in Soyuz 35; a later crew used their craft to return to Earth. The flight was the fifth Intercosmos flight whereby guest cosmonauts from Soviet allied nations would visit the space station, typically for about a week. The flight was only the second time a Soviet mission had a civilian commander.
(R.17.20)
Price: 22.00 euro
Size: 5×3.5cm./1.9×1.4inch.
Weight: 10gr./0.5oz.
Handmade Komsomol Lenin rocket pin. Made of messing. The Komsomol pin of Lenin can be detached and could be used for everyday wear on a coat or jacket. The pin has not been cleaned, when it does, it will be shiny again.
(17.21)
(R.17.20)
Price: 22.00 euro
Size: 5×4.5cm./1.9×1.7inch.
Weight: 11gr./0.5oz.
Handmade Komsomol Lenin rocket pin. Made of messing. The Komsomol pin of Lenin can be detached and could be used for everyday wear on a coat or jacket.
(22.21)
(R.17.20)
Price: 22.00 euro
Size: 6.5x4cm./2.5×1.5inch.
Weight: 10gr./0.35oz.
Hand made Komsomol space rocket pin.
Made of bronze or brass. 2 recesses above are filled with a black high-gloss plastic which gives a very nice effect. The Komsomol pin of Lenin can be detached and could be used for everyday wear on a coat or jacket.
Price: 1.50 euro
Soviet Union space pin. The pin says:”Cosmonautics Day”.
Cosmonautics Day is an anniversary celebrated in Russia and some other former USSR countries on 12 April. In 2011, 12 April was declared as the International Day of Human Space Flight in dedication of the first manned space flight made on 12 April 1961 by the 27-year-old Russian Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The commemorative day was established in the Soviet Union one year later, on 9 April 1962.
Nowadays the commemoration ceremony on Cosmonautics Day starts in the city of Korolyov, near Gagarin’s statue. Participants then proceed under police escort to Red Square for a visit to Gagarin’s grave in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, and continue to Cosmonauts Alley, near the Monument to the Conquerors of Space.
On 7 April 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring 12 April as the International Day of Human Space Flight.
On 12 April 2017, the United Nations commemorated the “International Day of Human Space Flight” to celebrate the 56th anniversary of the first human space flight, which started the beginning of the space era for mankind.
Yuri Gagarin, 12 April 1961
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Space pin from the Soviet Union. The pin says:”Cosmos”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about the Soyuz 9 spaceflight.
Soyuz 9 was a 1970 Soviet crewed space flight. The two man crew of Andrian Nikolayev and Vitali Sevastyanov broke the five year old space endurance record held by Gemini 7, with their nearly 18 day flight. The mission paved the way for the Salyut space station missions, investigating the effects of long term weightlessness on crew, and evaluating the work that the cosmonauts could do in orbit, individually and as a team. To date, Soyuz 9 marks the longest crewed flight by a solo spacecraft.
Soyuz 9 launch
Andrian Nikolayev and Vitali Sevastyanov during there space flight
Soyuz 9 returned to earth
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Space pin from the Soviet Union. The pin says:”Space Satellites Series”.
Price: 1.50 euro
This space pin says:”CCCP Space Heroes” and it features the portrait of astronaut Pavel Popovich.
Pavel Popovich (1930-2009) was the fourth cosmonaut in space, the sixth person in orbit, and the eighth person in space. In 1960, he was selected as one of the first group of twenty air force pilots that would train as the first cosmonauts for the Soviet space program. He was considered as a strong candidate for the first spaceflight but Yuri Gagarin was ultimately chosen for the Vostok 1 flight.
He commanded the space flight Vostok 4 which, along with Andrian Nikolayev in Vostok 3, was the first time that more than one manned spacecraft were in orbit at the same time.
Pavel Popovich
Pavel Popovich
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Pin about Kosmos 186 and 188.
The two Soviet spacecraft made the first fully automated space docking in the history of space exploration in 1967. Officially, both made a soft landing in a predetermined region of the Soviet Union. According to Boris Chertok “one of the vehicles was destroyed by the emergency destruction system”.
Because of the lethal outcome of both the Soyuz 1 and the US Apollo 1 missions earlier that year it was decided to proceed with unmanned flights first. But because the Soviet Union had no ground stations outside its own territory, this meant the docking had to be done fully automated.
After the first attempt failed, the second attempt succeeded over the South Atlantic. However, this docking was not entirely successful either, the modules were mechanically docked, but not electrically. Also, the manoeuvre had cost more fuel than anticipated. This mission proved it possible to launch smaller parts and assemble them in space, thus eliminating the need for exceedingly large rockets for larger undertakings like a space station.
The docking of the two spacecrafts.
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This space pin says:”CCCP Space Heroes” and it features the portrait of Vladimir Komarov.
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (1927–1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member. He became the first cosmonaut to fly in space twice when he was selected as the solo pilot of Soyuz 1, its first crewed test flight. A parachute failure caused his Soyuz capsule to crash into the ground after re-entry on 24 April 1967, making him the first human to die in a space flight.
Komarov was one of the most highly experienced and qualified candidates accepted into the first squad of cosmonauts selected in 1960. He was declared medically unfit for training or spaceflight twice while he was in the program, but his perseverance, superior skills, and engineering knowledge allowed him to continue playing an active role. During his time at the cosmonaut training center, he contributed to space vehicle design, cosmonaut training, and evaluation and public relations.
Vladimir Komarov
The remains of Vladimir Komarov
Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov
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Pin about the 50st. birthday of Yuri Gagarin who died in 1968. The pin says:”First Astronaut Of Planet Earth” and beneath that:”Y.A. Gagarin”.
Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961 in the Vostok 1 mission. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation’s highest honour. Gagarin died in 1968 when the training jet he was piloting crashed.
Yuri Gagarin with his car and in the background the enormous monument “Conquerors Of Space”
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin and his children.
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The pin shows an image of Yuri Gagarin. The text on the pin says:”World’s First Manned Space Flight, 20 years”. The first manned space flight was in 1961 so this pin is from 1981.
Yuri Gagarin
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Pin about the Interkosmos space flight Soyuz 40 Soviet Union and Romania.
Interkosmos was a Soviet space program, designed to help the Soviet Union’s allies with manned and unmanned space missions.
The program included the allied east European nations of the Warsaw Pact and other socialist nations like Afghanistan, Cuba, Mongolia, and Vietnam. In addition, pro Soviet nations such as India and Syria participated, and even France and Austria, despite them being capitalist nations.
The Soyuz 40 mission was a 1981 Soviet manned spaceflight and the final flight of the Soyuz 7K-T spacecraft. It was a collaboration between the Soviet Union and Romania
by carrying Romanian cosmonaut Dumitru Prunariu and Soviet cosmonaut Leonid Popov to the station. In all, nine Intercosmos missions were launched between 1978 and 1981.
Launch of Soyuz 40
Dumitru Prunariu and Leonid Popov
Dumitru Prunariu and Leonid Popov
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Pin is about the Soyuz 33 interkosmos space mission with Bulgaria.
Soyuz 33 was a 1979 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the ninth mission to the orbiting facility, but an engine failure forced the mission to be aborted, and the crew had to return to earth before docking with the station. It was the first ever failure of a Soyuz engine during orbital operations.
The two-man crew, commander Nikolai Rukavishnikov and Bulgarian cosmonaut Georgi Ivanov, suffered a steep ballistic re entry, but were safely recovered. Rukavishnikov was the first civilian to command a Soviet spacecraft, and Ivanov the first Bulgarian in space.
Nikolai Rukavishnikov and Georgi Ivanov
Nikolai Rukavishnikov and Georgi Ivanov
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Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 were launched a day apart in 1962 on trajectories that brought the spacecraft within approximately 6.5 km (4.0 mi) of one another. The cosmonauts aboard the two capsules also communicated with each other via radio, the first ship-to-ship communications in space. These missions marked the first time that more than one crewed spacecraft was in orbit at the same time, giving Soviet mission controllers the opportunity to learn to manage this scenario.
During the first day in orbit of Vostok 3, the cosmonaut unstrapped himself from his seat and became the first spacefarer to float freely in conditions of microgravity in space.
The mission led Western observers to speculate that the Soviets must already have spacecraft capable of in-orbit maneuvering. Official press releases made no mention that the Vostok spacecraft lacked this ability or that the two Vostoks were able to attain such close approach due to their extremely precise launches.
Vostok 3 and 4 propaganda poster
Vostok 3 and 4 stamp
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Pin about Luna 3.
Luna 3 was a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1959 as part of the Luna programme. It was the first ever mission to photograph the far side of the Moon and the third Soviet space probe to be sent to the Moon. It returned rather poor pictures. The historic, never before seen views of the far side of the Moon caused excitement and interest when they were published around the world, and a tentative Atlas of the Far Side of the Moon was created after image processing improved the pictures.
The Luna 3 spacecraft
First picture of the far side of the moon
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This pin is about the state museum wich stands in Kaluga.
The Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics is the first museum in the world dedicated to the history of space exploration. It was opened in 1967 in Kaluga, and is named after Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a school master and rocket science pioneer who lived most of his life in this city.
The building was designed by Boris Barkhin, Evgeny Kireev, Nataliya Orlova, Valentin Strogy and Kirill Fomin, and the cornerstone was laid by Yuri Gagarin on 13 June 1961. The museum has over 100,000 visitors per year.
The exposition of the museum consists of two parts. The first part is dedicated to the ideas and research of Tsiolkovsky, and shows a model of the rocket designed by Tsiolkovsky as well as copies of his scientific work. The second part contains mock-ups of space craft like Sputnik 1 and samples of moon dust. Just outside the museum is a rocket park, which contains amongst others a R-7 rocket.
State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics
A exhibition room in the museum
A rocket
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Soyuz 31 was a 1978 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the seventh mission to and sixth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 31 crew were the second to visit the long duration Soyuz 29 resident crew.
Soyuz 31 carried Valery Bykovsky and Sigmund Jahn, the first German cosmonaut, into space. They swapped Soyuz craft with the long duration crew and returned to earth in Soyuz 29, the resident crew returned to earth in Soyuz 31.
Soyuz 31 was the third Interkosmos flight.
Valery Bykovsky and Sigmund Jahn
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Soyuz 30 was a 1978 manned Soviet space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. And the 2nd. Interkosmos mission. It was the sixth mission to and fifth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 30 crew were the first to visit the long duration Soyuz 29 resident crew.
Soyuz 30 carried Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski, the first Polish cosmonaut.
Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski
Soyuz 30 landing capsule at the Museum of Polish Military Technology in Warsaw
Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski
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Pin from Soviet Union. Purpose and building unknown. Could be an observatory or planetarium.
Price: 1.50 euro
Soyuz 36 was a 1980 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the 11th mission to and ninth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 36 crew were the first to visit the long duration Soyuz 35 resident crew.
Soyuz 36 carried Valery Kubasov and Bertalan Farkas, the first Hungarian cosmonaut, into space. They swapped Soyuz craft with the long duration crew and returned to earth in Soyuz 35; a later crew used their craft to return to Earth.
The flight was the fifth Intercosmos flight whereby guest cosmonauts from Soviet allied nations would visit the space station, typically for about a week. The flight was only the second time a Soviet mission had a civilian commander.
Bertalan Farkas and Valery Kubasov
Launch of Soyuz 36
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This pin is about the state museum wich stands in Kaluga.
The Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics is the first museum in the world dedicated to the history of space exploration. It was opened in 1967 in Kaluga, and is named after Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a school master and rocket science pioneer who lived most of his life in this city.
The building was designed by Boris Barkhin, Evgeny Kireev, Nataliya Orlova, Valentin Strogy and Kirill Fomin, and the cornerstone was laid by Yuri Gagarin on 13 June 1961. The museum has over 100,000 visitors per year.
The exposition of the museum consists of two parts. The first part is dedicated to the ideas and research of Tsiolkovsky, and shows a model of the rocket designed by Tsiolkovsky as well as copies of his scientific work. The second part contains mock-ups of space craft like Sputnik 1 and samples of moon dust. Just outside the museum is a rocket park, which contains amongst others a R-7 rocket.
State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics
A exhibition room in the museum
A rocket
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Pin about the Planetarium in Volvograd (former Stalingrad).
The Planetarium in Volgograd appeared as a present from the DDR to the seventieth birthday of Joseph Stalin. The equipment for the planetarium was made in Germany and then placed in the building specially designed by Stalingrad architects. The sculpture of famous Soviet artist Vera Mukhina decorates the dome of the Volgograd planetarium.
The planetarium in Volvograd
One of it’s showrooms
The observatory
Painting of Stalin in the planetarum
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This pin is about Sputnik 1. First satellite to be launched from earth. The pin says:”First Satellite”.
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it in 1957, orbiting for three weeks before its batteries died, then silently for two more months before falling back into the atmosphere.
Its radio signal was easily detectable even by radio amateurs, and its orbit made its flight path cover virtually the entire inhabited Earth. The satellite triggered the Space Race. The launch was the beginning of a new era of political, military, technological, and scientific developments.
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 propaganda poster
Another Sputnik propaganda poster
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This pin is about the Interkosmos space program. This pin is probably issued in 1980 when Cuban Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez travelled into orbit in the Interkosmos space program. As a member of the crew of Soyuz 38 he was the first Cuban citizen and the first person of African heritage in space. Together with Yuri Romanenko from the Soviet Union.
He has been honored by the Cuban Government for being the first Cuban, the first Caribbean, and the first Latin American to go into orbit. He was awarded the titles of Hero of the Republic of Cuba and the Order of Playa Giron. He also is a recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union award.
Interkosmos was a Soviet space program, designed to help the Soviet Union’s allies with manned and unmanned space missions.
The program included the allied east European nations of the Warsaw Pact and other socialist nations like Afghanistan, Cuba, Mongolia, and Vietnam. In addition, pro Soviet nations such as India and Syria participated, and even France and Austria, despite them being capitalist nations.
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez
Interkosmos logo
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Yuri Romanenko
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Yuri Romanenko after their space flight
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Soviet pin with the image of a cosmonaut. Could be Yuri Gagarin, first human in space.
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This pin pictures the image of Sergei Korolev.
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907-1966) was a lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He is regarded by many as the father of practical astronautics. He was involved in the development of the R-7 Rocket, Sputnik 1, and launching Laika and the first human being, Yuri Gagarin, into space.
Once he was arrested on a false official charge as a “member of an anti Soviet counter-revolutionary organization” (which would later be reduced to “saboteur of military technology”), he was imprisoned in 1938 for almost six years.
Following his release he became a recognized rocket designer and a key figure in the development of the Soviet Intercontinental ballistic missile program. He later directed the Soviet space program and was made a Member of Soviet Academy of Sciences, overseeing the early successes of the Sputnik and Vostok projects including the first human Earth orbit mission by Yuri Gagarin on 12 April 1961. Korolev’s unexpected death in 1966 interrupted implementation of his plans for a Soviet manned Moon landing before the United States 1969 mission.
Before his death he was officially identified only as Chief Designer, to protect him from possible cold war assassination attempts by the United States.
Sergei Korolev
Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev
Sergei Korolev during an launch.
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Space pin picturing the colossal “Conquerors Of Space” monument in Moscow.
Conquerors Of Space
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Pin is about Soyuz flight 39 launched in 1981.
Soyuz 39 was a 1981 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the fifteenth expedition, and carried the eighth international crew to the orbiting facility. The flight carried Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Russian, and Jugderdemidiin Gurragchaa, Mongolian, into space. With this mission, Gurragchaa became the first Mongolian, and second Asian cosmonaut. Pham Tuan from Vietnam was the first Asian with Soyuz 37. Dzhanibekov and Gurragchaa performed about thirty experiments during the course of the mission.
Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Jugderdemidiin Gurragchaa
Jugderdemidiin and Vladimir after their succesful flight
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Soyuz 30 was a 1978 manned Soviet space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. And the 2nd. Interkosmos mission. It was the sixth mission to and fifth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 30 crew were the first to visit the long duration Soyuz 29 resident crew.
Soyuz 30 carried Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski, the first Polish cosmonaut.
Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski
Soyuz 30 landing capsule at the Museum of Polish Military Technology in Warsaw
Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski
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Soyuz 28 was a 1978 Soviet manned mission to the orbiting Salyut 6 space station.
Cosmonaut Vladimír Remek from Czechoslovakia became the first person launched into space who was not a citizen of the United States or the Soviet Union. The other crew member was Aleksei Gubarev. The flight was the first mission in the Intercosmos program that gave Eastern Bloc and other communist states access to space through manned and unmanned launches.
Soyuz 28
Aleksei Gubarev and Vladimír Remek
Vladimír Remek and Aleksei Gubarev
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This pin is about Interkosmos with the Soyuz spacecraft flight Soyuz 37.
Soyuz 37 was a 1980 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the 13th mission to and 11th successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 37 crew were the third to visit the long duration Soyuz 35 resident crew.
Soyuz 37 carried Soviet Viktor Gorbatko and Pham Tuan, the first Asian and first Vietnamese cosmonaut, into space.
In the Vietnam War, Pham Tuan (as a member of the North Vietnamese Airfoce) shot down a B-52 bomber.
Pham Tuan and Viktor Gorbatko
Viktor Gorbatko and Pham Tuan after there return to earth
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Pin about the Proton launch system.
Proton is an expendable launch system used for both commercial and Russian government space launches. The first Proton rocket was launched in 1965. Modern versions of the launch system are still in use as of 2019, making it one of the most successful heavy boosters in the history of spaceflight.
All Protons are built at the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center factory in Moscow, transported to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, brought to the launch pad horizontally, and raised into vertical position for launch.
Proton
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Pin about the Luna 16 1970 moon mission.
In 1970 Luna 16 was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample of lunar soil to Earth. It represented the first lunar sample return mission by the Soviet Union and was the third lunar sample return mission overall, following the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions.
Analysis of the dark basalt material indicated a close resemblance to soil recovered by the American Apollo 12 mission.
According to the Bochum Observatory in Germany, strong and good quality television pictures were returned by the spacecraft. Luna 16 was a landmark success for the Soviets in their deep space exploration program; the mission accomplished the first fully automatic recovery of soil samples from the surface of an extraterrestrial body.
Three tiny samples (0.2 grams) of the Luna 16 soil were sold at Sotheby’s auction for $442,500 in 1993.
On November 29, 2018 The Luna 16 fragments sold for US$ 855,000 at Sotheby’s.
Luna 16 landing on the moon
Launch of the Luna soil sample back to earth
Returning to earth
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Soviet Russia space pin. The pin says:”Union 6 7 8″.
Soyuz 6 7 8 was a joint mission that saw three Soyuz spacecraft in orbit together at the same time, carrying a total of seven cosmonauts. The mission took place in 1969.
Pin is made of aluminium and they made 20.000 pieces in 1969.
Soyuz 6 7 8
The 7 astronauts
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This pin is about Luna 9. The first spacecraft to land on the moon in 1966.
Approximately 250 seconds after landing on the moon, four petals opened outward for increased stability. The television camera system began a photographic survey of the lunar environment. Seven radio sessions with a total of 8 hours and 5 minutes were transmitted, as well as three series of TV pictures.
The photographs gave a panoramic view of the immediate lunar surface, comprising views of nearby rocks and of the horizon.
The pictures from Luna 9 were not released immediately by the Soviet authorities, but scientists in England, which was monitoring the craft, noticed that the signal format used was identical to the internationally agreed Radiofax system used by newspapers for transmitting pictures. The Daily Express rushed a suitable receiver to scientists and the pictures from Luna 9 were decoded and published worldwide.
The mission also determined that a spacecraft would not sink into the lunar dust; that the ground could support a lander.
Picture from Luna 9
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This space pin says:”Luna 2″.
Luna 2 was the sixth of the Soviet Union’s Luna programme spacecraft launched to the Moon.
The spacecraft was launched on 12 September 1959 by the Luna 8K72. It followed a direct path to the Moon. On 13 September 1959, it impacted (crashed) on the Moon’s surface. It was the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon, and the first human-made object to make contact with another celestial body.
Because of claims that information received from Luna 1 was fake, the Russian scientists sent a telex to astronomer Bernard Lovell at Jodrell Bank Observatory at the University of Manchester. Lovell began tracking the probe about five hours before it impacted the Moon and also recorded the transmission from the probe which ends abruptly. He played the recording during a phone call to reporters in New York to finally convince most of media observers of the mission’s authenticity.
Luna 2
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The text on the pin says:”Meteor Satellite”.
The Meteor spacecraft are weather observation satellites launched by the USSR. The Meteor satellite series was developed during the 1960s. Meteor satellites were designed to monitor atmospheric and sea surface temperatures, humidity, radiation, sea ice conditions, snow cover, and clouds.
The Meteor family of meteorological satellites was introduced in the USSR in 1969. In the 1970s, Soviet TV viewers could see black and white images of cloud cover from space during weather forecasts.
A Meteor Satellite.
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Spacepin from the Soviet union. It says:”Human Spacewalk”.
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Beautiful space pin. The pin says:”Space Flights In Groups”.
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Interkosmos pin. The pin says:”Interkosmos” in the middle and :”International Space Flights”. Beautiful pin in good condition.
Interkosmos was a Soviet space program, designed to help the Soviet Union’s allies with manned and unmanned space missions.
The program included the allied east European nations of the Warsaw Pact and other socialist nations like Afghanistan, Cuba, Mongolia, and Vietnam. In addition, pro Soviet nations such as India and Syria participated, and even France and Austria, despite them being capitalist nations.
Interkosmos logo
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3D space pin. Unique. The pin says:”Gagarin, first man in space”. Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961 in the Vostok 1 mission. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation’s highest honour. Gagarin died in 1968 when the training jet he was piloting crashed.
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This pin is about the Interkosmos space program. This pin is issued in 1978.
Soyuz 28 was a 1978 Soviet manned mission to the orbiting Salyut 6 space station.
Cosmonaut Vladimír Remek from Czechoslovakia became the first person launched into space who was not a citizen of the United States or the Soviet Union. The other crew member was Aleksei Gubarev. The flight was the first mission in the Intercosmos program that gave Eastern Bloc and other communist states access to space through manned and unmanned launches.
Soyuz 28
Aleksei Gubarev and Vladimír Remek
Vladimír Remek and Aleksei Gubarev
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Pin about the Interkosmos space flight Soyuz 40 Soviet Union and Romania.
Interkosmos was a Soviet space program, designed to help the Soviet Union’s allies with manned and unmanned space missions.
The program included the allied east European nations of the Warsaw Pact and other socialist nations like Afghanistan, Cuba, Mongolia, and Vietnam. In addition, pro Soviet nations such as India and Syria participated, and even France and Austria, despite them being capitalist nations.
The Soyuz 40 mission was a 1981 Soviet manned spaceflight and the final flight of the Soyuz 7K-T spacecraft. It was a collaboration between the Soviet Union and Romania
by carrying Romanian cosmonaut Dumitru Prunariu and Soviet cosmonaut Leonid Popov to the station. In all, nine Intercosmos missions were launched between 1978 and 1981.
Soyuz 40
Dumitru Prunariu and Leonid Popov
Dumitru Prunariu and Leonid Popov
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This pin is about the Interkosmos space program. This pin is probably issued in 1980 when Cuban Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez travelled into orbit in the Interkosmos space program. As a member of the crew of Soyuz 38 he was the first Cuban citizen and the first person of African heritage in space. Together with Yuri Romanenko from the Soviet Union.
He has been honored by the Cuban Government for being the first Cuban, the first Caribbean, and the first Latin American to go into orbit. He was awarded the titles of Hero of the Republic of Cuba and the Order of Playa Giron. He also is a recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union award.
Interkosmos was a Soviet space program, designed to help the Soviet Union’s allies with manned and unmanned space missions.
The program included the allied east European nations of the Warsaw Pact and other socialist nations like Afghanistan, Cuba, Mongolia, and Vietnam. In addition, pro Soviet nations such as India and Syria participated, and even France and Austria, despite them being capitalist nations.
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez
Interkosmos logo
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Yuri Romanenko
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Yuri Romanenko after their space flight
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Pin of a (yet) unknown cosmonaut.
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This pin is about Cosmonaut Feoktistov. This is his amazing story:
Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov (1926-2009) was a Soviet cosmonaut and an eminent space engineer. Feoktistov also wrote several books on space technology and exploration. The Feoktistov crater on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor.
During the Nazi occupation, at the age of just 16, Feoktistov fought with the Soviet Army against the German troops, carrying out reconnaissance missions.
After being captured by a Waffen SS Army patrol, Feoktistov was shot by a German officer. However, the bullet went right through his chin and neck and did not kill him. Feoktistov was able to escape and then make his way to the Soviet lines.
In 1955, Feoktistov formed part of the team that went on to design the Sputnik satellites, the Vostok space capsule, the Voskhod space capsule, and the Soyuz space capsule.
In 1964 he was assigned to the Voskhod 1 crew. He was the first civilian to make a space flight, and the only cosmonaut in the Soviet Union who was not a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. During his space flight, he spent just over 24 hours and 17 minutes in space.
In 1969, Konstantin Feoktistov and Georgi Beregovoi traveled as guests of NASA throughout the US, able to visit any city they chose Disneyland in California. They were joined on the trip by US astronauts Eugene Cernan, Neil Armstrong and others.
If a band was present the song “Fly Me to the Moon” was played, then he joked with the US astronauts that they went to Disneyland and not the moon. It was a trip that all enjoyed and international friendships were made.
In 1990 he went to the Moscow Higher Technical School as a professor. He was highly decorated.
Konstantin Feoktistov
Konstantin Feoktistov in more recent times.
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This pin is abourt cosmonaut Boris Yegorov.
Boris Borisovich Yegorov (1937-1994) was a Soviet physician cosmonaut who became the first physician to make a space flight.
Yegorov came from a medical background, with his father a prominent heart surgeon, and his mother an ophthalmologist. He also selected medicine as a career and graduated from the “First Moscow Medical Institute” in 1961. During the course of his studies, he came into contact with Yuri Gagarin’s training and became interested in space medicine.
Yegorov earned his doctorate in medicine, with his specialisation being in disorders of the sense of balance.
Yegorov was selected as a member of the multi disciplinary team that flew on Voskhod 1. As a result of this space flight, Yegorov was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union on October 19, 1964.
He died from a heart attack in 1994. Voskhod 1 was the first multi men spaceflight.
Boris Yegorov and Russian actress Natalya Kustinskaya
Spacecraft Voskhod 1
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The pin is from 1975.
This pin is about the Apollo-Soyuz test project between the Soviet Union and the USA in 1975. It was the first space program with the two nations working together. It was the marking the end of the space race between the 2 super powers wich had begun in 1957 with the Sputnik launch.
The Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft docked together in space.
Also it was the last USA manned space mission until the first space shuttle flight in 1981.
Launch of the Soyuz spacecraft.
Launch of the Apollo spacecraft.
Apollo and Soyuz docked together.
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Beatiful space pin from the Soviets. Could be a Soyuz spacecraft.
(1.5.19)
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The pin says:”Star City” with an image of Yuri Gagarin, first human in space.
Star City is a common name of an area in Moscow Oblast, which has since the 1960s been home to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
Cosmonauts of the Russian Federal Space Agency, and the Soviet space program before it, have lived and trained in Star City since the 1960s. In the Soviet era the location was a highly secret and guarded military installation, access to which was severely restricted. Many Russian cosmonauts, past and present, and Training Centre’s personnel, live in Star City with their families.
Location of Star City in Russia.
Flag of Star City
Monument for Leika. First living creature in orbit.
Monument of Yuri Gagarin first human in space.
Monument of Lenin (has he been in space?)
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This pinis about Yuri Gagarin. Who was the first man in space and came back alive. The top of the pin says:”Star City”. Next to his head it says:”Yuri Gagarin”
Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961 in the Vostok 1 mission. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation’s highest honour. Gagarin died in 1968 when the training jet he was piloting crashed.
Yuri Gagarin
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Space pin made in the Soviet Union.
(1.5.19)
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Mars 2 and 3 were unmanned space probes deployed by the Mars program by the Russians. Both were launched in 1971. Mars 2 was the first man made object to reach the surface of Mars although it crashed on the surface.
Nine day after Mars 2, probe Mars 3 was launched wich became the first man made object to succesfully landed on the surface of Mars. Both probes were identical.
Probe Mars 3.
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This pin is about the Apollo-Soyuz test project between the Soviet Union and the USA in 1975. It was the first space program with the two nations working together. It was the marking the end of the space race between the 2 super powers wich had begun in 1957 with the Sputnik launch.
The Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft docked together in space.
Also it was the last USA manned space mission until the first space shuttle flight in 1981.
Launch of the Soyuz spacecraft.
Launch of the Apollo spacecraft.
Apollo and Soyuz docked together.
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Pin in good condition. Space pin.
(1.5.19)
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Pin in good condition.
It says:”Cosmos”.
(1.5.19)
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This pin is about the Vostok Space Program flights 5 and 6. The Vostok Space Program was a Soviet human spaceflight project to put the first Soviet citizens into low earth orbit and return them safely to earth.
They succeded because the first Vostok flight (Vostok 1) put the first human in space in 1961. That man was Yuri Gagarin.
In total the Vostok project made 6 space flights and this pin is about flights 5 and 6. Flights 5 and 6 were in space at the same time and they orbited very close to eachother establishing radio contact. Flight 6 put the first woman in space. She was called Valentina Tereshkova.
Valentina Tereshkova first woman in space.
