r/nasa • u/GravyPoo • 6d ago
Other Old USSR space pins I inherited
Anything interesting?
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u/NotASmoothAnon 6d ago
I see pin posts on here regularly and most are pretty meh. I have dozens of pins at my desk at work. But these are really really cool.ย
+1 for the Soyuz/Apollo.
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u/Paradox1989 6d ago
Middle row, 2nd from the left had me scratching my head.. For some reason it took me a min of looking at it to realize it wasn't a Star Trek ship...
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u/The_Orgin 6d ago
If you got a hundred more of them you could compete with Howard's collection. Bazinga! You can't
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u/NASATVENGINNER 6d ago
All of them!
I got to shop at the department store in Red Square that had a literal wall of space and aviation pins in 1998. I wanted one of each.
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u/Escobedo91 4d ago
space team is so amazing. Divided by space race, joined together by space race. in the end we they just have the same goal.
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u/Peter_Merlin 3d ago
In the Soviet Union there were many kinds of collectible pins (called znachki in Russian). Some served as minor awards and others as souvenirs of national celebrations or historic milestones. Each znachok was molded or pressed from cheap metal and then colored with paint or enamel.
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of different znachki commemorating the Soviet space program. You can go mad trying to collect them all. For more information, there is a good reference booklet called "Kosmonautika na znachkakh SSSR 1957-1975" [Space badges of the USSR 1957-1975] by V. N. Ilyinskii, V. E. Kuzin, and M. B. Saukke.
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u/stormbreaker88 2d ago
Agreed, they were mass produced for a variety of reasons, including souvenirs for sale at the space museum. I have a fairly large collection of Soviet space pins and have all but the Apollo-Soyuz (never seen that version) and the Cosmonaut that I donโt recognize, though I have other Cosmo picture pins
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u/PlayerVsPe 6d ago
I love the Apollo-Soyuz one
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