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Voskhod 1: Records File of the First Multi-Crew Space Flight in the World Aboard the Spacecraft-Satellite "Vost...
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Official Soviet world record claims for First Multi-Crew Spaceflight, made to the FAI
Voskhod 1: Records File of the First Multi-Crew Space
Flight in the World Aboard the Spacecraft-Satellite "Vostok"
October 12-13, 1964, Signed by Komarov, Feoktistov, and
Yegorov. (Moscow: Federation of Aviation Sports of the USSR,
1964). A 9" x 12" book bound in rich burgundy leatherette,
gilt-lettered in Russian only on the cover with state Soviet
emblem. Inside covers in silk moiré. Printed on heavy cream stock,
each page within a decorative border. Text all in Russian. Complete
with printed record sheets, data tables, electrocardiogram fold-out
chart, and tipped-in color portraits of each cosmonaut. Thirty
numbered pages plus title page and numerous pages bearing laid-down
photos, mostly color. Signed by numerous Soviet officials and twice
by the crew. Excellent.The text formally identifies the record-holding crew: Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (Commander of the spacecraft, Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR); Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov (Flight Engineer and Research Scientist, Pilot-Cosmonaut); and Boris Borisovich Yegorov (Physician, Pilot-Cosmonaut). The second section enumerates the world records certified: greatest mass launched into orbit; maximum altitude attained by a multi-person spacecraft; longest duration of orbital flight for a multi-crew mission; and greatest distance traveled in orbit; among others. Signed at the close by the Federation's sports commissioners S. N. Anokhin and I. G. Borisenko, and at the end of the program statement by Komarov, Feoktistov, and Yegorov themselves, confirming the report of mission performance and crew health data following landing.
Voskhod 1 marked one of the Cold War's most dramatic leaps in space achievement: the first flight to carry more than one human into orbit, completed without space suits or ejection seats in a drastically modified Vostok capsule. Commanded by Komarov, the mission demonstrated the Soviet Union's technical daring and established multiple world records recognized by the FAI. The inclusion of a scientist and a physician in the crew made it the first truly multidisciplinary space mission, a precedent for all later space-station expeditions. Documents of this level, an official state-issued certification dossier directly commemorating the event, and signed by the entire crew, are of exceptional rarity. The combination of signatures, telemetry chart, and portraits make this a museum-grade artifact encapsulating the Soviet Union's pride at the height of the space race. From an important collection of Soviet-era Space history
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