YURI GARGARIN SIGNED & INSCRIBED BOOK.
YURI GARGARIN SIGNED & INSCRIBED BOOK.
["I SEE HOW BEAUTIFUL OUR PLANET IS, LET US NOT DESTROY IT!"]
GAGARIN, YURI. [A Soviet Person in the Cosmos. Moscow: April, 1961.] 128 pages. In Cyrillic. Original printed wrappers.
SIGNED & INSCRIBED THE SAME YEAR AS HIS HEROIC FIRST FLIGHT INTO OUTER SPACE, in Cyrillic: ["Having flown around the Earth in the first satellite, I saw how beautiful our planet is, let us not destroy it! / 1, vii, 1961"] Gagarin achieved international fame with his April 12, 1961 flight aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft which orbited the Earth in 108 minutes before returning. This lengthy and poignant inscription was done while he was on tour, stopping in England, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Hungary and Iceland. President John F. Kennedy had barred Gagarin from visiting the United States.
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YURI GARGARIN SIGNED & INSCRIBED BOOK.
["I SEE HOW BEAUTIFUL OUR PLANET IS, LET US NOT DESTROY IT!"]
GAGARIN, YURI. [A Soviet Person in the Cosmos. Moscow: April, 1961.] 128 pages. In Cyrillic. Original printed wrappers.
SIGNED & INSCRIBED THE SAME YEAR AS HIS HEROIC FIRST FLIGHT INTO OUTER SPACE, in Cyrillic: ["Having flown around the Earth in the first satellite, I saw how beautiful our planet is, let us not destroy it! / 1, vii, 1961"] Gagarin achieved international fame with his April 12, 1961 flight aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft which orbited the Earth in 108 minutes before returning. This lengthy and poignant inscription was done while he was on tour, stopping in England, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Hungary and Iceland. President John F. Kennedy had barred Gagarin from visiting the United States.
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