Sotheby's to auction 1961 Soviet space capsule

Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 18:00 in Astronomy & Space

MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - Before blasting the first human into space in 1961, the Soviet Union fired off one last test flight of the tiny capsule that would carry Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on his historic mission.

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