YURI GAGARIN First Man In Space Silver Coin 1$ Cook Islands 2008

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934 – 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On April 12 1961, he took off from Baikonur cosmodrome towards where no human had been before: the outer space. On board the spacecraft Vostok 1, he became the first person to see with his own eyes that the Earth is indeed round and mostly covered with water. During a short but intense 108 minutes flight, Gagarin orbited once around the Earth at 18,000 miles an hour. Eventually, he ejected from the capsule and landed by parachute on an agricultural area of Saratov region. He received medals from around the world for his pioneering tour in space.

Each coin, which is protected by an acrylic capsule, is housed in an elliptical-shaped silver display case. The case comes in a blue box shipper with a lid depicting the famous cosmonaut.