DALLAS, TX.- A bolt of Yuri Gagarin’s Vostok Spacecraft, sheared by the heat of re-entering the atmosphere, along with a Sputnik 1 Tag from the Fourth Arm of the Satellite inscribed and initialed by Sergei Pavlovich Korolev and given to Oleg Ivanovsky,…
Original Vostok, Sputnik, Gemini and Apollo Materials Highlight Heritage Auctions Spacefest III Simulcast Event
DALLAS, TX.- A bolt of Yuri Gagarin’s Vostok Spacecraft, sheared by the heat of re-entering the atmosphere, along with a Sputnik 1 Tag from the Fourth Arm of the Satellite inscribed and initialed by Sergei Pavlovich Korolev and given to Oleg Ivanovsky,…
The World Marks 50th Anniversary of Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s Flight into Space
STAR CITY, RUSSIA (AP).- It was the Soviet Union’s own giant leap for mankind, one that would spur a humiliated America to race for the moon. It happened 50 years ago this Tuesday, when an air force pilot named Yuri Gagarin became the first human in s…
Sotheby’s to Offer Iconic Piece of Space History That Paved the Way for Yuri Gagarin’s Historic Flight
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Nearly 50 years ago, on 12 April 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin rocketed out of the Earth’s atmosphere aboard the small, spherical Vostok 3KA-3 Space Capsule, becoming the first man to travel into outer space. Three weeks prio…