SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF THE FIRST SOVIET COSMONAUTS GAGARIN, Yuri Alekseyevich (1934-1968). Signed photograph of Soviet cosmonauts. Gelatin silver print, 230 x 150 mm. Official photograph of the first eleven Soviet cosmonauts including Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space in 1961; Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space in 1963; and Vladmir Komarov, the first cosmonaut to die on a space mission in 1967. Nine have signed their names in ink on wide lower margin, including Gagarin, Tereshkova, Popovich, Nikolayev, Bykovsky, and Titov.