Sale 2570 | Lot 377
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377 •(USSR SPACE MISSIONS)
A collection of 26 large photographs depicting the Soviet Unions' progress in the Space Race throughout the 1960s-80s.
Including images of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, after the Vostok 1 flight, several missions to the Salyut 7 space station, snaps of astronauts before, during, and after leaving Earth, views of Earth from space, and more. Chromogenic (14) and silver (12) prints, the images measuring 15½x11½ inches (39.4x29.2 cm.), and the reverse, one with a typed caption label, in Russian, on recto, two with a Fotokhronika Moscow, USSR hand stamp, and most with a written caption, in English, in ink, on verso. 1960s-80s; printed 1980s
[400/600]
