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RE: VOSTOK 3KA-2 space capsule

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Eighteen days before Gagarin's flight, the Vostok 3KA-2 rocket blasted into space and safely brought home a little dog named Zvezdochka and a mannequin in a spacesuit.
On Tuesday, Sotheby's in New York City will auction off that space capsule, which is the only Vostok capsule outside Russia.

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Price $15,000,000

This historic Soviet capsule was sent into space on March 25, 1961. Vostok 3KA-2 was such a triumph, that Soviet decision-makers were convinced the time had come to launch the first man into space.
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Just weeks before the first man shot into outer space in 1961, the Soviets launched a dress rehearsal with a duplicate of the space capsule carrying a cosmonaut mannequin and a live dog.
The Vostok 3KA-2 spacecraft - a twin of the Vostok 3KA-3 that later carried cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin - is being auctioned in New York on April 12, the 50th anniversary of the manned mission.
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