Auction Name: 2025 December 11 - 12 Space Exploration Signature® Auction

Lot Number: 50038

Shortcut to Lot: HA.com/6326*50038

Soviet Vostok, Voskhod, and Soyuz Cosmonauts, circa 1967: Large Original Press Photo, Seated and Standing, Signed by Sixteen, with Certificate of Authenticity from PSA/DNA. A 12" x 8" glossy B&W photo signed at wide lower margin in various colored felt tips (Cyrillic, signatures left to right): Pavel Popovich [Vostok 4 (1962), Soyuz 14 (1974)]; Anatoly Filipchenko [Soyuz 7 (1969), Soyuz 16 (1974)]; Valeri Kubasov [Soyuz 6 (1969), Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1975), Soyuz 36 (1980)]; Pavel Belyayev [Voskhod 2 (1965)]; Vladimir Shatalov [Soyuz 4 (1969), Soyuz 8 (1969), Soyuz 10 (1971)]; Georgi Beregovoi [Soyuz 3 (1968)]; Alexei Leonov [Voskhod 2 (1965), Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1975)]; Gherman Titov [Vostok 2 (1961)]; Anatoly Berezevoy [Soyuz T-5 (1982); Valentina Tereshkova [Vostok 6 (1963)]; Andrian Nikolayev (light color- faint) [Vostok 3 (1962), Soyuz 9 (1970)]; Vladislav Volkov [Soyuz 7 (1969), Soyuz 11 (1971) perished in Soyuz 11 depressurization]; Yevgeny Khrunov [Soyuz 5/4 (1969)]; Georgi Shonin [Soyuz 6 (1969)]; Valery Bykovsky [Vostok 5 (1963), Soyuz 22 (1976), Soyuz 31 (1978)]; and Alexei Yeliseyev [Soyuz 5/4 (1969), Soyuz 8 (1969), Soyuz 10 (1971)]. Twenty-nine space missions flown by the individuals that signed this photo. Quite rare in this larger format. Photo with edge roughness, very fine. PSA/DNA COA included.

Handwritten in pencil on the verso is the following (translated): "Soviet cosmonauts./ The photo was presented to the labor collective of the test pilots of the 'Soyuz' spacecraft in 1967." Also present is a Novosti Press Agency stamp. From an important collection of Soviet-era Space history

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