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HUNGARY - SOVIET SPACIAL FLIGHT GROUP ( * ) - VOSTOK 3 & 4 f…
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168
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HUNGARY - SOVIET SPACIAL FLIGHT GROUP ( * ) - VOSTOK 3 & 4 f…
See original version (French)
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€20
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Description
HUNGARY - SOVIET SPACIAL FLIGHT GROUP ( * ) - VOSTOK 3 & 4 flights.
Portraits of cosmonauts NIKOLAEIV and POPOVITCH with plane stamp 242. Each with plane stamp 242, on the front, on two maximum cards colour portraits of each of the heroes of the cosmos, cards official Soviet editions of the newspaper LA PRAVDA - The 2 stamps cancelled BUDAPEST 11 December 1963.
( * ) On 11 August 1962 the VOSTOK 3 capsule took off from the BAIKONOUR cosmodrome with Adrien Nikolaïev on board. The following day, August 12, Pavel Popovitch took off aboard Vostok 4. This was a highly publicised first for the Soviets, and an important one in the space battle with the Americans. The 2 ships passed each other less than 5 km apart! The Russians proclaimed the mission to be the 1st space rendezvous in history.
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ID: 87493976
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