Original Soviet Russian Space Program Vostok 2 Parachute Cord Piece with Signed Gherman Titov Photo Vintage Signs The Johnson's short recoil reciprocating

The Johnson's short recoil reciprocating barrel mechanism resulted in excessive vertical shot dispersion that was never fully cured during its production life

The substantial fairly heavy barrel is mounted on a wood Naval Carriage fitted with wooden wheels

not perfect as has one slight indentation in one of the three branches of the hand guard

43 Spanish Reformado cartridge

with almost no denting to the lower ball

Original Soviet Russian Space Program Vostok 2 Parachute Cord Piece with Signed Gherman Titov Photo Vintage Signs The Johnson's short recoil reciprocatingOriginal Items: One of a kind set. This is a great piece of Soviet Russian "Space Race" history! The Vostok programme (Russian: Orient or East) was a Soviet human spaceflight project to put the first Soviet citizens into low Earth orbit and return them safely. Competing with the United States Project Mercury, it succeeded in placing the first human into space, Yuri Gagarin, in a single orbit in Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961. The Vostok capsule was