Soviet spacecraft is expected to fetch up to $10 million at auction

NEW YORK - Just weeks before the first man shot into outer space in 1961, the Soviets launched a dress rehearsal with a duplicate of the space capsule carrying a cosmonaut mannequin and a live dog.

The Vostok 3KA-2 spacecraft - a twin of the Vostok 3KA-3 that later carried cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin - is being auctioned in New York on April 12, the 50th anniversary of the manned mission.