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"Sputnik" cigarette box was made in
the USSR to celebrate the successful
launch of the first satellite. It is
sealed and contains 25 cigarettes, and
was produced around the end of the
1950's. "Sputnik" was launched on
October 4th 1957, it weighed about 180
pounds, the size of a football, took 98
minutes to orbit the Earth. This event started
off "The Space Age" and this is one
of the earliest Space
collectibles, being more unusual as it
is from the former USSR. To view other images of this
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