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1962 Vostok Boctok 3 & 4 Orbit Lines around Planet Earth CCCP Star Pin Badge
1962 Vostok Boctok 3 & 4 Orbit Lines around Planet Earth CCCP Star Pin Badge
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- This is a very pretty 1962 Vostok 3 and 4 pin badge celebrating the successful launch of the rockets. A gold coloured metal badge, the badge face is 2cm high and has a clasp style fastener to the rear. Featuring the rockets as stars orbiting the Earth.
- Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 were launched a day apart, and together these missions marked the first time that more than one manned spacecraft was in orbit at the same time, giving Soviet mission controllers the opportunity of learning how to manage this scenario.
The spacecraft came within 5 km of each other, well within sight of each other. Although the Vostok-capsules had no maneuvering capability so they quickly drifted apart. Vostok 3 also conducted several scientific observations and furthered improved spacecraft to ground-control and inter spacecraft communication tecniques.
Vostok 3 would also record the first ever colour film footage of the Earth from space.
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