Item: Valery Bytokvsy signed photo.
Size: 15 x 10.1 cm.

Description: Valery Bykovsky (1934-2019) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. He was also backup for Vostok 3 and Soyuz 37.

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Valery Bykovsky (Wikipedia)

Item: Luna 24 flown fragment.
Size: 7.2 x 10.8 cm.
Weight: 112 gr.
Description: It comes with a certificate of authenticity from Superior Stamp & and Coin.

It also includes a letter written by Cosmonaut Valery Rozhdestvensky and translated into English:

June 30, 1971 on board of Soyuz II.

Captain of the ship Dobrovsskiy G.T., Volkov V.N., and Pazaev V.I..

Accomplished a connection with space station Salyut I, the first space station of long duration taken to the orbit. I had to learn how to operate that station, and that is why after the accident, which happened because the valve for the pressure balance opened and all the vaccum had flowed out and I took part in an investigation of the causes of this accident. I still have burned layiag of the opened hatch from that flight from the escape pod.

During the landing of the escape pad of Soyuz II, a group discovered an opened hatch, and tape of pink color with laying of transparent material.

According to the report of the investigation that was the cause of the depressuring.

In the box, there are also fragments of the "Luna 24" spacecraft, inside layering. Launched on 8/9/76 - 8/22/76, after the scheduled landing on the surface of the Moon on the area of the Crisis Sea, where after the drilling of the Moon surface a sample was taken on the depth of 2 meters and this sample was delivered to earth on a container.

The weight of the sample was 170 grams.

Detail of the fragment (front and back sides)

Item: Multilayer Thermal Protection of spaceship Salyut - MIR - Soyuz TM.
Size: 13x12.5 cm.
Description: Section of multilayer thermal protection unfolded in the form of a fan to show the different layers on A4 sheet, signed by cosmonaut Anatoly Solovyev.

In order to shield the spacecraft's components from extreme temperature fluctuations in space, a multilayer vacuum-screen thermal insulation is applied to all exposed surfaces, except for the active components of sensors, antennas, windows, docking hardware, thruster nozzles, and radiator panels. Its Russian acronym is ЭВТИ, long for экранно-вакуумная теплоизоляция or Shield Vacuum Thermal Insulation. It consists of many layers of metalized film and fiberglass cloth.

Item: Sputnik 9 parachute fragmentSize: 20.4x14.8 cm.
Parachute fragment: 1.1x2.2 cm.

Description: Korabl-Sputnik 4 (Russian: Корабль-Спутник 4 meaning Ship-Satellite 4) or Vostok-3KA No.1, also known as Sputnik 9 in the West, was a Soviet spacecraft which was launched in 1961. Carrying the mannequin Ivan Ivanovich, a dog named Chernushka, some mice and a guinea pig, it was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft. Originally sold by Spaceflori (Florian Noller). Obtained from one of his sources at Star City in Russia who had told him it was part of the parachute flown on this flight.

Item: Sigmund Jähn signed postcard.

Size: 14.9 x 10.5 cm.
Date: 1983.
Publisher: Bild und Heimat - Reichenbauch (Vogtl).