Icon of Space History Sells for $2.9 Million To A Russian
Businessman
Fifty years after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first
man to travel into outer space, the Vostok 3KA-2 Space Capsule that
paved the way for his historic mission sold for $2,882,500 to
Evgeny Yurchenko, chairman of the investment fund AS Popov.