{"id":387,"date":"2011-04-14T22:21:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T04:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2011-04-14T22:21:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T04:21:39","slug":"soviet-space-capsule-sells-for-2-8-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/14\/soviet-space-capsule-sells-for-2-8-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Soviet space capsule sells for $2.8 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/STI\/STIMEDIA\/image\/20110413\/ST_19774245.jpg\" alt=\"space\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A SOVIET space capsule sold for US$2.8 million at auction in New York on Tuesday, the 50th anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin&#8217;s historic conquest of space.<\/p>\n<p>The spherical Vostok 3KA-2 Space Capsule went under the hammer at Sotheby&#8217;s at the lower end of the US$2 million to US$10 million range expected by the auction house. The buyer was not immediately identified.<\/p>\n<p>The battered craft has serious historical credentials as the model used for the final dummy run before Gagarin left on his mission.<\/p>\n<p>It was used to carry a small dog, Zvezdochka, and a life-sized human dummy into orbit and back.<\/p>\n<p>Their successful journey meant Gagarin&#8217;s first human space flight could go ahead. <\/p>\n<p>Photo by AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SOVIET space capsule sold for US$2.8 million at auction in New York on Tuesday, the 50th anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin&#8217;s historic conquest of space. The spherical Vostok 3KA-2 Space Capsule went under the hammer at Sotheby&#8217;s at the lower end of the US$2 million to US$10 million range expected by the auction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}