Zvezda Kolumba (Columbus Star)
Year: 1992
Mint/Issuer: Leningrad Mint for the Federation of Cosmonautics
Mintage: Unknown
Flown metal: Metal flown on board the 'Zvezda Kolumba' (Columbus Star) space craft
Additional Information:
The Russian Resurs 500 capsule was also called Zvezda Kolumba which means "Columbus Star" was launched from Russia as part of the Columbus 500th Anniversary. The spacecraft, owned by Konsortsium Evropa-Amerika 500, had been launched on top of a Soyuz rocket from Plesetsk Cosmodrome Spaceport, a Russian spaceport, located about 800 km north of Moscow on November 15, 1992. The launch was Russia's first privately financed rocket project. After six days in orbit, the Resurs 500 capsule landed in the Pacific Ocean near the Washington Coast. The Resurs-500 spacecraft was recovered from the Pacific Ocean by the electronic surveillance ship Marshal Krylov on Nov. 22, 1992
