It's offered to your attention the color photo postcard of the world's first spacecraft engineer-constructor,
who performed the flight in it Konstantin Feoktistov.
The photo postcard is signed by Konstantin Feoktistov on the right part of the front side. The signature
is very clean and sharp.
Russian Space lovers and serious collectors are welcome!
FEOKTISTOV'S SIGNATURE IS NOT AUTOPEN, NOT PRINTED OR COPIED!!!
IT'S GENUINE!!!
The back side of the postcard is not filled in, so, you can do it yourself! That could be a great
gift to your friend!
Size - about 4x6 inches.
Condition - very good. Borders are worn out a little. Please see the scan.
Konstantin Feoktistov was born on February 07, 1926 in Voronezh. In 1942 he participated in WW2 and was
captured and shot. Happily throat wound was not lethal and after treatment he was mustered out of
military service. In 1949 he finished Moscow High Technical School by N. Baumann. In 1955 Feoktistov
became the Candidate of Technical Sciences. It's Feoktistov who proposed spherical shape for the
spacecraft VOSTOK.
On June 11, 1964, Konstantin Feoktistov was chosen for training for the flight on board of VOSKHOD.
And on October 12, 1964 he performed the world's first flight without armour in the world's first
space crew on board of VOSKHOD together with V. Komarov and B. Egorov. For this flight
he was awarded the highest award of USSR - Hero of USSR Star.
After the flight she was engaged mostly into scientific activities. He was also preparing
for other missions in back-up crews.
Seller has a number of interesting photos of Russian cosmonauts, flown covers and hardware. Seller accepts the requests to find something related to Russian space explorations.
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