Could have had pieces of it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_1
Vostok 1 came down in a field near the town of Engels where my future wife would eventually be born. Her father, and now my father-in-law, was a well-respected principal of a school at the time of the landing. The students from his school scoured the site at the time of the landing and brought back metal parts, tubing and other pieces of the craft. The these parts were then given to my future father-in-law who kept them for many years in his apartment in Russia. He now lives in the states and I learned tonight that he had these artifacts from the first manned space flight but no longer has them.
I came oh-so-close to having a piece of history from the very first manned space flight. Why couldn't have kept these pieces? :S Yikes!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_1
Vostok 1 came down in a field near the town of Engels where my future wife would eventually be born. Her father, and now my father-in-law, was a well-respected principal of a school at the time of the landing. The students from his school scoured the site at the time of the landing and brought back metal parts, tubing and other pieces of the craft. The these parts were then given to my future father-in-law who kept them for many years in his apartment in Russia. He now lives in the states and I learned tonight that he had these artifacts from the first manned space flight but no longer has them.
I came oh-so-close to having a piece of history from the very first manned space flight. Why couldn't have kept these pieces? :S Yikes!!!
