3 SOYUZ 14 FLOWN NOTEBOOKS. USED BY COSMONAUT YURI ARTYUKHIN ABOARD SALYUT 3. 3 items: 1. Red translucent plastic spiral-bound notebook, 7 7/8 x 5 inches, gilt Soviet emblem on upper cover, lower cover with metal mount holding 6 color marker pens, containing approximately 23 pages of autograph notes in Russian by Artyukhin. 2. Maroon textured cloth 3-ring notebook, 6 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches, upper lettered in silver gilt ["Form 14: Descent"], red-printed title page identifying the notebook as an engineer's log for expedition 1, also containing blank radiogram form. 3. Red translucent plastic 3-ring notebook, 6 x 8 3/8 inches, upper cover gilt stamped ["Onboard Medical Journal"] below Soviet emblem, mimeographed title-page with manuscript additions. All 3 notebooks stamped with Salyut 3 postmark, dated July 1974. Provenance: From the collection of Cosmonaut Yuri Artyukhin, sold at Sotheby's December 11, 1993, lot 76. Soyuz 14 was the first successful Soviet mission to a space station. Commander Pavel Popovich and flight engineer Yuri Artyukhin boarded and spent 15 days on the space station Saylut 3. The first item listed above contains many of Artyukhin's observations and comments while aboard the station. He makes notes regarding small improvements needed: ["1. The set with razor, brush, etc. should be at the bottom. 2. The toothpaste should not be foamy...."] Regarding tools: [2. Panel attachment should be modified. 3. Joints on the wrench should be changed."] Regarding food: ["We never warmed the food completely for lack of time ... The coffee is hot enough ... We need different juices ... Chopped chicken liver with butter is delicious. It is unnecessary to combine the fork and the spoon because the spoon is hardly needed."] Regarding exercise: 1. The treadmill needs a brake ... 3. Jumping jacks are impossible to do."] And general observations such as: ["Portholes: Too much dust on the outside. The porthole is misty with water droplets."] Artyukhin was apparently captivated by the view of dawn from space. The notebook contains 2 instances of his drawings of the phenomenon including one in colors: ["Before the dawn: the horizon and the air are dark red, then become lighter with transition to dark-blue and black. The last strip is about twice as wide as all the others together."] He also wrote replies to Soviet journalists' questions: ["The sunrise. I had heard about the dawn in space, but one has to see it to be able to appreciate its magnificence. And also, of course, the view of our beautiful earth."]
3 SOYUZ 14 FLOWN NOTEBOOKS. USED BY COSMONAUT YURI ARTYUKHIN ABOARD SALYUT 3. 3 items: 1. Red translucent plastic spiral-bound notebook, 7 7/8 x 5 inches, gilt Soviet emblem on upper cover, lower cover with metal mount holding 6 color marker pens, containing approximately 23 pages of autograph notes in Russian by Artyukhin. 2. Maroon textured cloth 3-ring notebook, 6 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches, upper lettered in silver gilt ["Form 14: Descent"], red-printed title page identifying the notebook as an engineer's log for expedition 1, also containing blank radiogram form. 3. Red translucent plastic 3-ring notebook, 6 x 8 3/8 inches, upper cover gilt stamped ["Onboard Medical Journal"] below Soviet emblem, mimeographed title-page with manuscript additions. All 3 notebooks stamped with Salyut 3 postmark, dated July 1974. Provenance: From the collection of Cosmonaut Yuri Artyukhin, sold at Sotheby's December 11, 1993, lot 76. Soyuz 14 was the first successful Soviet mission to a space station. Commander Pavel Popovich and flight engineer Yuri Artyukhin boarded and spent 15 days on the space station Saylut 3. The first item listed above contains many of Artyukhin's observations and comments while aboard the station. He makes notes regarding small improvements needed: ["1. The set with razor, brush, etc. should be at the bottom. 2. The toothpaste should not be foamy...."] Regarding tools: [2. Panel attachment should be modified. 3. Joints on the wrench should be changed."] Regarding food: ["We never warmed the food completely for lack of time ... The coffee is hot enough ... We need different juices ... Chopped chicken liver with butter is delicious. It is unnecessary to combine the fork and the spoon because the spoon is hardly needed."] Regarding exercise: 1. The treadmill needs a brake ... 3. Jumping jacks are impossible to do."] And general observations such as: ["Portholes: Too much dust on the outside. The porthole is misty with water droplets."] Artyukhin was apparently captivated by the view of dawn from space. The notebook contains 2 instances of his drawings of the phenomenon including one in colors: ["Before the dawn: the horizon and the air are dark red, then become lighter with transition to dark-blue and black. The last strip is about twice as wide as all the others together."] He also wrote replies to Soviet journalists' questions: ["The sunrise. I had heard about the dawn in space, but one has to see it to be able to appreciate its magnificence. And also, of course, the view of our beautiful earth."]
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