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Cosmonaut Leonov’s Spacesuit to Be Auctioned Off

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Cosmonaut Leonov’s Spacesuit to Be Auctioned Off


04.03.2011

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov’s spacesuit that he used on the history-making SOYUZ-APOLLO joint spaceflight in July 1975 is expected to become the top lot of the Bonhams auction in New York in May, Voice of Russia reports.

The auctioneers hope to get $100,000-150,000 dollars for it. The spacesuit that another Soviet cosmonaut, Gennady Strekalov, used during his flight aboard the MIR orbital space station in August through December 1990 is expected to go for 60,000 to 80,000 dollars. The auction is timed for the 50th anniversary of man’s first-ever space flight, made by Yuri Gagarin aboard the Vostok spacecraft on April 12th 1961.

Russkiy Mir Foundation Information Service

   

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