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Lot 72:Cosmonaut Signed Commemorative Cover

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Lot   72:Cosmonaut Signed Commemorative Cover
<b>Autographs</b><hr><b>Photograph Signed By Gagarin And Six Other Cosmonauts</b>

<b>(COSMONAUTS).</b>
Black and white glossy Photograph Signed by seven cosmonauts in Cyrillic script, 'Gagarin,' 'Titov,' 'Nikolayev,' 'Popovich,' 'Tereshkova,' 'Yegorov,' and 'Bykovsky,' 8.75' x 11.75', Choice Very Fine. Upper corners have minor creasing, not touching the autographs, which are signed in the lower white border; three autographs, including GagarinÕs, are signed in pink ink; the others are signed in blue ink. An excellent display piece.

The photo includes Yuri Gagarin, who became the first person in space on April 12, 1961; Valentina Tereshkova, who became the first woman in space on June 16, 1963; Gherman Titov made the second space flight in August 1961; in August 1962 Pavel Popovich took part in the worldÕs first group space flight, as did Andrian Nikolayev; and in June 1963, Valery Bykovsky set an endurance record of five days in space that would last for two years. Boris Yegorov was the first medical doctor to make a space flight, as a member of the first Voskhod in October 1964.