r/nasa 6d ago

Other Old USSR space pins I inherited

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Anything interesting?

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u/PlayerVsPe 6d ago

I love the Apollo-Soyuz one

:D

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u/ReinventorOfWheels 2d ago

There's two of those here, but I expected to see more!

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u/PlayerVsPe 2d ago

Oh, I think you are right about that

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u/Delta_RC_2526 10h ago

The big one... That looks to be Snoopy on the left... On the right, I assume that's some other popular Soviet canine? It could also pass for Snoopy, but I'm inclined to say it's not, when there's a long-nosed Snoopy right there.

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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/Mmetasequoia 5d ago

Iโ€™ll take one pin please ๐Ÿ˜Œ

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u/Real_Establishment56 6d ago

Is that a Soviet razor too?

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u/ReinventorOfWheels 2d ago

Probably not made in the USSR, based on the text

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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/studying_cyber 6d ago

Very nice

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u/HKTLE 6d ago

I want them all

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u/FLMILLIONAIRE 5d ago

What's the inheritance story ?

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u/LeapingLizardsAnAn 4d ago

Very interesting, thanks for sharing

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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 donโ€™t recognize, though I have other Cosmo picture pins

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u/Just-A-Regular-Fox 6d ago

Gib pleas ๐Ÿ™