Voskhod 2 crew cosmonauts Aleksei Leonov and Pavel Belyayev signed postcard. Size 4” x 5.3/4”.

Postcard 1965 "March 18, 1965 First human went out into the vastness of the Universe”, Artist N. Zakharzhevsky, Publishing house “Soviet artist”, Moscow. 

The postcard issued by the USSR Post in 1965, a cancelled stamp attached to the postcard  dedicated to the world's first spacewalk by pilot-cosmonaut Alexei Leonov during a flight on the Vostok-2 spacecraft, issued by the USSR Post in 1965. 

A  commemorative postcard honouring Alexey Leonov accomplishment as the first person to walk in space, cancelled March 18, 1966 ( red ink stamp).

There is a tiny bend on the lower right corner, otherwise the photo is in a good condition.

Voskhod 2 was a Soviet crewed space mission in March 1965. Voskhod 2 was launched with two men on board, cosmonauts Pavel I. Belyayev, pilot, and Aleksey A. Leonov, co-pilot. The spacecraft was equipped with an extendable air lock that permitted Leonov's exit into space without having to evacuate the main cabin air. Leonov was the first man to perform an EVA (ExtraVehicular Activity) in space. For this EVA a space suit was donned, and a life-support system was worn in a backpack. The EVA was recorded by a mounted extended TV camera. Leonov also carried a handheld movie camera. The EVA lasted 20 min, during which Leonov experienced tension and euphoria. The flight of Voskhod 2 lasted for 26 hr, and 16 orbits were completed. A manually controlled reentry was performed because of a malfunction of the automatic orientation devices for the retrofire, and the spacecraft landed in a pine forest far north of the target area. After locating the spacecraft, one day was required to cut through the forest and bring the crew out on skis.

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