Vintage Space Rocket Sputnik-3 metal cigarette box – soviet cosmos exploration era relic

Vintage soviet cigarette box with cosmos theme
MADE IN USSR!

Featuring space launch of SPUTNIK 3 space satellite on May 15th 1958.

• Mission: Sputnik 3 was the third Soviet artificial satellite and the first “automatic orbital station”. It was initially intended to be the first satellite launched for the International Geophysical Year (IGY), but its complexity led the Soviets to launch the much simpler Sputnik 1 and 2 first for political advantage.
• Satellite: The satellite was a 1,327 kg (2,925 pounds) cone-shaped scientific laboratory, making it the heaviest object put into orbit at that time.
• Instrumentation: It carried 12 scientific instruments designed to study the upper atmosphere and near-Earth space, including pressure, composition, charged particles, cosmic rays, and magnetic fields.
• Outcome: Although the launch was successful, a failure with the onboard tape recorder meant it could not achieve all its science objectives. However, data from the mission contributed to the detection and mapping of the Earth’s outer Van Allen radiation belts.
• Relevance: The launch occurred during the height of the Space Race and was a significant display of Soviet technological capability, reinforcing the US fear of being left behind. 

Read more on wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_3

The cigarette case appreas to be in very good pre-owned condition.

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