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Vostok-2_2nd Russian Manned Spacecraft_Soviet Space Exploration_Pin Badge_Type 1
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Vostok-2 Second Russian Manned Spacecraft_
Soviet Space Exploration _ Pin Badge - Type 1
Rare badge in very good condition
Made by Moscow Mint, maker's mark on the reverse.
Obviously intended for presentation/ official use since there is no price indication on the reverse which was obligatory in the USSR.
Vostok-2 was the USSR second manned spacecraft from the Vostok series, launched on August 6, 1961 from the Baikonur cosmodrome. It was the world's first space flight lasting more than a day. For the first time, the astronaut
German
Titov
slept in zero gravity, used a sewage device, and made simple exercises for fitness.
The flight set the record of the flight
duration
at that time - 25 hours 18 minutes (17 orbits).
There are several variations of that pin. This one is Type 1 (red and dark-blue)
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