Le Celebre Vostok: Premier Vasseau Cosmique Habite. [The Famous Vostok: First Inhabited Cosmic Vessel].

[GAGARIN, Yuri].

$2,000.00

Item Number: 141042

Rare illustrated French pamphlet on the Vostok Research Station, signed by the first human to journey into outer space, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with color photographs. Signed by Gagarin on the verso of the front panel. In very good condition. Rare.

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin  became an international celebrity when his Vostok spacecraft completed the first orbit of Earth on April 12th, 1961. A triumph for the Soviet space program, the flight sparked interest around the globe and mass demonstrations held in Moscow and other major cities throughout the reached a scale second only to the World War II victory parades.