Most of these will be discernible from the catalogue images. Nicks to edges fading or yellowing slight warping and creasing light scruffs or scratches small tears to margins handwritten annotations in pencil or ink captions affixed to verso staining to verso affixed labels or stickers occasional hand retouching to press photographs, and cropped margins. Condition will vary from lot to lot but some photographs may display signs of further handling including, but not limited to: Please note that photographs in this sale are drawn from a variety of sources and include photographs used to prepare press articles. Overall in very good condition with wear commensurate with age and use. Lots are sold in the condition they are in at the time of sale. The condition of lots can vary widely and the nature of the lots sold means that they are unlikely to be in a perfect condition. Gagarin parachuted to the ground separately from his capsule after ejecting at 7 km (23,000 ft) altitude. The flight took 108 minutes from launch to landing. The orbital spaceflight consisted of a single orbit around Earth which skimmed the upper atmosphere at 169 km (91 nautical miles) at its lowest point. The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 12, 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first human to cross into outer space and also to orbit the Earth. suborbital flight (Mercury Redstone 3 with Alan Shepard aboard on May 5, 1961). Vostok 1 was the first crewed spaceflight in history, occurring 23 days prior to the first U.S.
“Major Yuri Gagarin, the world’s first man to orbit Earth and return safely, in his spacesuit and helmet in bus en route to space ship at the Cosmodrome (Space Flight Airfield) somewhere in the Soviet Union, April 12” (Associated press caption). And they gave the Soviets confidence to send a human into space less than a year later.Ī famous photograph of Gagarin on his way for launch. They were the first living creatures to go into orbit and return safely.
On August 19, 1960, the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik V capsule containing a pair of dogs, Belka (“Whitey”) and Strelka (“Little Arrow”) that spent one day in space.
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