RUSSIA - 1994 - X Congress of the participants to the Space flights 9-16 August 1994 - 5 commemorative covers with signatures of the cosmonauts among which Valentina Tereskova, first woman in Space - financial cert.Bolaffi (2001 with reproduction of the cover with signature Tereskova) - very good quality - Foto - (12652F)

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RUSSIA - 1998 - orbital station Mir - space letter and radiogram n.03 of 10 of Expedition 26, cosmonauts Gennadi Padalka and Sergei Avdeyev - the space letter is franked with pair of r.500 issued in 1994 to commemorate the Cosmonautics Day; the 2 pages radiogram contains the programme and the instructions for the extra station activities - both documents were cancelled with board canc. on 15.9.1998, day of the first extravehicular activity (EVA) - octagonal "CC*CP 15.09.98" (only the cover), star pentagonal and octagonal in blue (the half impression on the radiogram, up in the middle, fits the half impression on the space letter cover back) - signatures of the cosmonauts G.Padalka and S.Avdeyev - on the back of the cover, circular dry postmark of the 26th Mir crew - financial cert. Bolaffi 100% (2000) with translation of the radiogram text - very good quality - Foto - (12644F)

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RUSSIA - 1998 - orbital station Mir - space letter with private mail Earth-Space n.3 of 17 carried to Mir aboard the unmanned supply spacecraft Progress M-40, addressed to cosmonaut Gennadi Padalka (Expedition 26) and including a 2 pages handwritten message by his daughter Katia - aboard the station, the letter and the text were marked with board canc.: octagonal "CC*CP 27.10.98" (only the cover), Progress M-40/Mir docking day, star pentagonal and octagonal in black (the half impression in the middle of the handwritten text fits together the half impression on the space letter cover back) - the space letter returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TM-28 on 28.2.1999 - authenticity cert. in English by Commander Padalka - very good quality - Foto - (12645F)

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RUSSIA - 2000 - orbital station Mir - Mir "2000", the first space letter of the new millennium - cover n.160 of 200 carried on board Mir aboard Soyuz TM-30 - canc. of departure from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 4.4.2000; octagonal canc. "CC*CP 06.04.00", Soyuz TM-30/Mir docking; board postmarks in black, both Ussr and Russia pentagonal ones, and star octagonal; octagonal canc. of departure from Mir together with Soyuz TM-30 crew "CC*CP 16.06.00"; circular canc. "Star City" of 16.6.2000; on the back, small sheet with Russian pioneer Tsiolkovsky quotation + Mir board star octagonal canc. - signatures of the cosmonauts Zaletin and Kalery - authenticity cert. in English by Commander S.Zaletin - A.Bolaffi (financial cert. 100% 2000; the videotape mentioned is lacking) - very good quality - colour commemorative folder - Foto - (12638F)

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