Voskhod Soviet Space Ship _ Russian Space Exploration_ Original Pin Badge

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Voskhod Soviet Spacecraft _ Russian Space Exploration _Pin Badge
Quality badge in very good condition.
The inscription
is in Russian.
Obviously reserved for presentation/ official use since there is no price indication which was obligatory in the USSR.
The Voskhod
("Sunrise") was a spacecraft built by the Soviet Union's space program for human spaceflight as part of the Voskhod programme. It was a development of the Vostok spacecraft. Voskhod-1 was used for a three-man flight, and Voskhod-2 had a crew of two. They consisted of a spherical descent module (diameter 2.3 metres (7.5 ft)), which housed the cosmonauts, and instruments, and a conical equipment module (mass 2.27 tonnes or 5,000 pounds, 2.25 m (7.4 ft) long, 2.43 m (8.0 ft) wide), which contained propellant and the engine system. Voskhod was superseded by the Soyuz spacecraft in 1967.
The Voskhod spacecraft was, essentially, a Vostok spacecraft that had a backup solid fuel retrorocket added to the top of the descent module. The ejection seat was removed for more space and two or three crew couches were added. There was no provision for crew escape in the event of a launch or landing emergency.
Lack of space meant that the three crew members of Voskhod-1 did not wear space suits. Both crew members wore spacesuits on the Voskhod-2 mission, as it involved an EVA (Extra-vehicular activity) and used an inflatable airlock. This allowed cosmonaut
Alexei Leonov
to exit and re-enter the craft.
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