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Yuri Gagarin Signed Awesome Candid Photo, First Man in Space!

Rare candid photograph of Yuri Gagarin signed by the first human to journey into outer space, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Signed along the right margin in Cyrillic. 5.5" x 3.5". Near fine with very tiny ink mark lower left corner.

Yuri Gagarin was a trained air force pilot and officer, and he was handpicked in 1960 to test into the new Soviet space program. He later became one of the Sochi 6, as the program’s top candidates were called. Gagarin’s psychological and physical endurance, as well as his small statue (5’2”), made him an ideal candidate for future space missions. Gagarin broke records when he successfully manned the Vostok I space capsule into outer space on April 12, 1961. He made a full orbit around Earth lasting 108 minutes before parachuting into the atmosphere at 23,000 feet.

Soviet aeronautics may have been advanced enough to send a man to space, but it was still extremely dangerous. Gagarin was the backup crew for the April 1967 Soyuz I mission in which fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov (1927-1967) died. Gagarin himself was killed in a routine training mission at age 34 less than a year later. Gagarin’s Vostok I 1961 mission clenched a Soviet victory in the Space Race, a symbolic reiteration of the Cold War. The Americans responded with their own manned orbital space flight ten months later.

This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.

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