26 Soviet Space Pins From the Heat of the Space Race
There was a meter when people proudly wear thin pins and badges of celebrated space achievements on their clothes . Such pins were very popular in the Soviet Union — and anybody could buy almost any kind , opt from a panoptic sort of these little cosmetic item . Here is a ingathering of place pin from the first decades of the Soviet space program . USSR Cosmos (undated) Luna 2 Moon mission, 1959 Luna 1 Moon mission, 1959 Vostok 1 (Yuri Gagarin), 1961 Joint mission of Soyuz 6, 7, 8, 1969 Soyuz 11 and Salyut space station, 1971 USSR (undated) Salyut 2, 1973 Vostok 2 (Gherman Titov), 1961 Soyuz spacecraft (undated) Lunokhod 1 lunar rover mission , 1970...