There was a time when people proudly wore pins and badges of notable space achievements on their clothes. Such pins were very popular in the Soviet Union—and anybody could buy almost any kind, choosing from a wide variety of these little decorative items.
Here is a collection of space pins from the first decades of the Soviet space program.
USSR Cosmos (undated)
Luna 2 Moon mission, 1959
Luna 1 Moon mission, 1959
Vostok 1 (Yuri Gagarin), 1961
Joint mission of Soyuz 6, 7, 8, 1969
Soyuz 11 and Salyut space station, 1971
USSR (undated)
Salyut 2, 1973
Vostok 2 (Gherman Titov), 1961
Soyuz spacecraft (undated)
Lunokhod 1 lunar rover mission, 1970
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, 1975
Venera 1 mission to Venus, 1961
Red satellite (undated)
Sputnik 3, 1958
Sputnik 1, VDNKh (Exhibition of Achievements of the People’s Economy, 1957)
Mars (c1960)
Soviet rocket (undated)
Vostok 3 (Andriyan Nikolayev), 1962
(Collection and photo: Attila Nagy/Gizmodo)
