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It's offered to your attention very rare and unique limited edition book - the official records file about Soviet interplanetary space mission of the automatic station Luna-2, what successfully reached the Moon surface in 1959. The file contains:
general mission data,
mission program,
weighing, launch, trajectory and landing statements,
report about the last stage of the rocket and Luna-2 structure,
telemetry,
real photo illustrations.
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Luna-2 was the second of the Soviet Union's Luna program spacecraft launched to the Moon. It was the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon and was also the first man-made object to land on another celestial body. On September 14, 1959 it successfully impacted with the lunar surface east of Mare Imbrium near the craters Aristides, Archimedes, and Autolycus. After launch Luna-2 took a direct path to the Moon with a journey time of around 36 hours. This was dictated by the fact that the Earth-Moon gravitational system forced it to follow a curved trajectory, and launch had to occur from the side of the Earth opposite the Moon. Luna-2 hit the Moon about 800 kilometres from the center of the visible disk in September 13, 1959. Luna 2 was a spherical spacecraft with protruding antennas and instrument parts. The instrumentation was similar to Luna-1, including scintillation counters, geiger counters, a magnetometer, Cherenkov detectors, and micrometeorite detectors. There were no propulsion systems on Luna-2 itself. The spacecraft also carried Soviet pennants. Two of them, located in the spacecraft, were sphere-shaped, with the surface covered by identical pentagonal elements. In the center of this sphere was an explosive for the purpose of slowing the huge impact velocity. This was designed as a very simple way to provide the last necessary delta-v for those elements on the retro side of the sphere to not get vaporized. (Wikipedia)
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Here are some facts what may be interesting to know:
Such files have been created to officially register the records achieved during the space flights.
The number of such files is very limited, about several tens copies for each space flight.
These files have been presented to officials, important international guests and space museums for permanent display.
Each text page with the records in the file is hand-signed by appropriate specialist.
There are the real photos manually glued on the pages.
All the files are printed on very high quality solid paper with the leather cover and golden letters on it!
Multilingual records files have been created for some highly significant and international missions.
The records files for piloted missions contain hand-signed reports of all the crew members.
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Language - Russian.
Format - A4.
Number of pages - 15.
Condition - perfect.
 Exclusive Soviet piece-production book with goldish letters on leather hardcover.
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