Vostok 3KA-2 Capsule (final pre-Gagarin test flight)
- Maker
- OKB-1 (Soviet space program)
- Year
- 1961
- Rank
- 24 of 100
Vostok 3KA-2 Capsule (final pre-Gagarin test flight)
Vostok 3KA-2 Capsule (final pre-Gagarin test flight) by OKB-1 (Soviet space program) (1961) is ranked 24 in the FLOAT 100 for Memorabilia. It sold for $2,882,500 on 12 April 2011. The hardware that cleared the way for the first human in space.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
The hardware that cleared the way for the first human in space.
Flown Vostok test capsule from the last mission before Yuri Gagarin's first human spaceflight
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $2,882,500
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- 12 April 2011
Sotheby's New York. $2.88M (sold on the 50th anniversary of Gagarin's flight).
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
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