Commemorative souvenir in honor of the first flight into space "April 12, 1961". Propaganda of the USSR, space, Soviet achievements. On April 12, 1961, a carrier rocket was launched with the first pilot ship "Vostok", the pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR Yuri Alekseyovich Gagarin made the world's first flight into space. The Vostok rocket is a three-stage launch vehicle for launching spaceships. With the help of the "Vostok" launch vehicle, all spacecraft of the "Vostok" series, spacecraft "Luna-1" - "Luna-3", some artificial satellites of the Earth "Cosmos", "Meteor" and "Electron". series were launched into orbit. Dimensions: height 6.6 cm, base diameter 5.8 cm. Shipping with tracking number.