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
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, 1975
Venera 1 mission to Venus, 1961
Red satellite (undated)
Sputnik 3, 1958
Sputnik 1, VDNKh (Exhibition of Achievements of the People’s Economy, 1957)
Mars (c1960)
Soviet rocket (undated)
Vostok 3 (Andriyan Nikolayev), 1962
( Collection and exposure : Attila Nagy / Gizmodo )
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