Flight suits and helmet owned and used by the first man to walk in space, Alexei Leonov

A collection of a high altitude flight suits and its components including the helmet and its detached olive green neck drape. This VMSK-4-12 unit with four tags comprises of the orange outer suit for flights over water for visibility in case of a crash with the ZK-4 inner sweater, MK-4 component and inner VZK-4 dry suit liner and is accompanied by the orange neck drape. This is worn over the TZK-2M thermal suit for warmth along with the olive green VKK-6ML, partial pressure suit with orange connection hose accompanied by VKK-6M storage bag plus life preserver units on either side. Dry suit three finger pilot gloves are also present. Comes in a large zippered olive green Russian flight suit bag having the correct stamped markings. The flight suit comes with all the original Russian pamphlets indicating the teats that were made with original Russian stampings and signatures of those testing. The original helmet is hand signed and dated “7.XII 93” by Alexei Leonov

Provenance: Private estate, acquired from the direct estate of Alexei Leonov. Included will be photographs of Leonov signing the helmet.

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