Item: Soyuz 31 patch.
Size: 7.2 x 9.3 cm.

Description: Soyuz 31 was a 1978 Soviet crewed space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the seventh mission to and sixth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 31 crew were the second to visit the long-duration Soyuz 29 resident crew.

Soyuz 31 carried Valery Bykovsky and Sigmund Jähn, the first German cosmonaut, into space. They swapped Soyuz craft with the long-duration crew and returned to Earth in Soyuz 29, the resident crew returned to Earth in Soyuz 31.

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.

More information

Valery Bykovsky (Wikipedia)

Item: Sigmund Jähn signed postcard.

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

Item: Der erste Deutsche im Kosmos - Ein Bürger der DDR - Postcard

Size: 14.8 x 10.4 cm.
Publisher: Verlag für Agitations- und Anchauungsmittel Berlin

Description: Image of Valery Bykovsky and Sigmund Jähn. It has the printed signature of Jähn. Berlin stamp dated 09-14-1978 "Der erste Deutche im Kosmos ein Bürger der DDR" (the first German in cosmos, a citizen of the GDR) and stamp on the front. Unused front.

Item: Sigmund Jähn Postcard
Size: 14.8 x 10.4 cm.
Publisher: Verlag für Agitations- und Anchauungsmittel Berlin

Description: It includes the printed signature. On the obverse, 2 Berlin stamps dated 09-14-1978 "Der erste Deutche im Kosmos ein Bürger der DDR" (the first German in Cosmos, a citizen of the GDR).

Item: Sigmund Jähn signed postcard with inscribed date.
Size: 14.9 x 10.5 cm.

Date: 1983-10-08.
Publisher: Bild und Heimat - Reichenbauch (Vogtl).

Item: Neues Deutschland - Landing of Sigmund Jähn and Waleri Bykowski.
Size: 42.5 x 59 cm.
Date: 1978-09-04

Description: Title in German: Waleri Bykowski und Sigmund Jähn sind auf der Erde glücklich gelandet (Valery Bykowski and Sigmund Jähn landed successfully on earth).

Item: Neues Deutschland - Reception of Sigmund Jähn and Waleri Bykowski in Berlin
Size: 42.5 x 59 cm.
Date: 1978-09-22

Description: Title in German: Stürmischer Empfang in Berlin für Sigmund Jähn und Waleri Bykowski (Stormy reception in Berlin for Sigmund Jähn and Waleri Bykowski).