A vintage Vostok space capsule is headed back to its homeland with its new Russian owner, who bought the relic of the early days of human spaceflight for nearly $2.9 million during Sotheby’s auction ...

NEW YORK - A vintage Vostok space capsule is headed back to its homeland with its new Russian owner, who bought the relic of the early days of human spaceflight for nearly $2.9 million during ...

NEW YORK - A 1961 Soviet space capsule that carried a cosmonaut mannequin and a live dog into space was sold at Sotheby's on Tuesday for $2.9 million, a spokesman for the auction house said. The buyer ...

A 1961 Soviet space capsule that carried a cosmonaut mannequin and a live dog into space was sold at Sotheby's on Tuesday for $2.9 million, a spokesman for the auction house said. Subscribe to read ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Just weeks before the first man shot into outer space in 1961, the Soviets launched a dress rehearsal with a duplicate of the space capsule carrying a cosmonaut mannequin and a live ...

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Yuri Gagarin's historic flight concealed a spinning, out-of-control capsule, a botched landing, and a cover-up that forced ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A Russian businessman bought a piece of history when he paid nearly $2.9 million at auction for the Vostok 3KA-2 capsule the Soviet Union launched on a test flight before ...

Fifty years ago on April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, ushering in the era of human spaceflight. The rocket carrying Gagarin's Vostok 1 spacecraft blasted ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — A 1961 Soviet space capsule that carried a cosmonaut mannequin and a live dog into space was sold at Sotheby’s on Tuesday for $2.9 million, a spokesman for the auction house said.