Space Cover Collection over 160 covers from about 1933-1980s, large majority are FDCs, numerous countries including numerous Russia and Czechoslovakia, also Austria, Ascension, Wallis & Futuna, French Antarctic, United States, Canada and many more, mostly F-VF

CV. 100-150

1981/92 Space Shuttle Covers Assortment, 120 cacheted covers many being unaddressed, from STS-1 through STS-47 and good number of different flights in between, includes launch, landing, return mission cachet, etc., a 1983 Columbia/ Space Lab cover signed by John Young, F-VF

CV. 75-100

1961 Space Cover Reference, two covers with non-genuine cancels; a USS Champlain cover for recovery of the "Freedom 7" Mercury capsule piloted by Alan Shepard - the first American to fly into space; a USS Randolph cover for recovery of the Mercury-Redstone 4 capsule piloted by Gus Grissom (signature on cover) which ultimately proved unsuccessful as the capsule sank, useful pair of covers (Image)

CV. 200-250

1934 Piccard Stratosphere Balloon Flight Cover, Canadian private air mail stationery with hand-inked cachet "Stratosphere Flight Sep 27, 1934 / Dr & Mrs Jean Piccard. Detroit. Mich" (though the flight itself took place nearly a month later) Greenfield, Mich Oct 13 1934 machine cancel plus another partial Michigan duplex ties US 2c Grand Canyon, 6c Globe (oxidized), signed on back by Jeanette Piccard and husband Jean Piccard with note below signatures: "Landed at Cadiz Ohio", Fine and rare;rnJeannette Piccard was the first licensed female balloon pilot in the U.S., the first woman to fly to the stratosphere and, by some accounts, the first woman in space. Accompanied by her husband, Jean—a member of the Piccard family of balloonists and the twin brother of Auguste Piccard—she reached a height of 10.9 miles (17.5 km) during this record-breaking flight over Lake Erie on October 23, 1934, retaining control of the balloon for the entire flight.rn (Image)

CV. 100-150

1965 Gemini 4 Crew Signed Launch Cover, signatures of James A McDivitt and Edward H White on envelope with handstamped "GEMINI ASTRONAUTS/ MAJORS JAMES McDIVITT & EDWARD WHITE/ IN 2nd US MANNED GT-4 CAPSULE/ TAKE OFF FROM PAD 19 - CAPE KENNEDY/ FOR 4 DAY - 62 EARTH ORBITS/ FIRST U.S. WALK IN SPACE" handstamp, Cape Canaveral Jun 3 1965 date of launch machine cancel (covering the "White" portion of his signature) ties C69, VF, it was this flight that was commemorated with the "Space Walk" issue of 1967 (Scott 1331-32) (Image)

CV. 500-750

1971 Apollo 15 Crew Signed "Phases of the Moon" Cover, bold signatures of Dave Scott, Al Worden and Jim Irwin on small envelope with the "Phases of the Moon" label tied along with C76 by Kennedy Space Center Jul 26 1971 launch date pictorial cancel, back side with the privately produced Herrick "LAUNCH JULY 26 - 1971" and "RECOVERY AUG. 7 - 1971" handstamps in red, Herrick address label; accompanied by NASA card dated July 25 1971 noting the autographed cover and that only "130" were made, Very Fine (Image)

CV. 250-350

1971 Moon Landing Postmark Proofs, two different handstamp proofs prepared for the Apollo 15 lunar landing, one "'United States / On The Moon / Aug 3 1971 / First Day of Issue" struck on an 88x45mm piece of brown envelope paper, "Moon Landing / USA / Jul 29 1971 / First Day of Issue" struck on a NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Stamp Club with cachet for Apollo 15, these markings were prepared by a collaboration between the United States Postal Service and NASA, Very Fine; 1996 notarized affidavit describing provenance included. (Image)

CV. 400-600

1971 Apollo 15 Crew Signed "Phases of the Moon" Cover, bold signatures of Dave Scott, Al Worden and Jim Irwin on small envelope with the "Phases of the Moon" label, Kennedy Space Center Aug 2 1971 date of issue cancel for Space Achievement issue (Scott 1434-35); Herrick address label; accompanied by two NASA cards dated July 25 1971 noting the autographed cover and that only "36" were made, Very Fine (Image)

CV. 250-350

1971 Apollo 15 Crew and Backup Crew Signed Cover, cacheted cover with a "SUB SATELLITE LAUNCH" handstamp at top signed by crew members Dave Scott, Al Worden and Jim Irwin plus the backup crew of Dick Gordon, V (Vance) Brand and Harrison Schmitt, Kennedy Space Center Aug 4 1971 slogan cancel (date lunar orbiter departed moon orbit after releasing a sub satellite), Very Fine, unusual to find covers with signatures of the full crew and backup crew (Image)

CV. 300-400

1971 Apollo 15 Crew Signed "Splash Down" Cover, cacheted postal stationery cover signed by crew members Dave Scott, Al Worden and Jim Irwin plus backup crew members Harrison Schmitt and Dick Gordon, Kennedy Space Center Aug 7 1971 4:48 PM EDT Mailer's Postmark Permit pictorial cancel, accompanied by a similar cover signed by the main crew plus backup crew member Vance Brand, Very Fine and attractive (Image)

CV. 200-300

1972 Apollo 16 Crew Signed Re-Entry and Splashdown Cover, Orbit cacheted envelope with signatures of John Young, Charlie Duke and Ken Mattingly, Cape Canaveral Apr 27 1972 machine cancel, unaddressed, Very Fine (Image)

CV. 300-400

1972 Apollo 16 Crew Signed Recovery Ship Cover, signatures of John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke on cover with Apollo 16 Recovery Force handstamp cachet and U.S.S. Ticonderoga (CVS-14) Apr 27 1972 hand cancel, address label removed, Very Fine (Image)

CV. 200-300

1972/75 Apollo-Soyuz Autographed Covers Group. four covers; 1) cacheted cover with Houston Jul 6 1972 machine cancel and signed by American Deke Slayton and Russians Alexey Leonov and Valery Kubasov; 2) US Navy Recovery Force cacheted cover with signatures of Slayton, Leonov and Kubasov plus American V Brand, San Francisco Jul 24 1975 slogan cancel, 3) rubber stamp cacheted cover with Kennedy Space Center Jul 15 1975 launch date slogan cancel and Jul 17 2005 hand cancel signed by Leonov and Kubasov; 4) Russian 1975 Apollo-Soyuz issue Fleetwood cacheted FDC signed by Leonov and Kubasov, F-VF (Image)

CV. 250-350

1983 STS-9 Space Shuttle "Columbia" Crew Signed Flight Cover, rubber stamped cachet with launch details and signed by crew members Brewster Shaw, Owen Garriott, Robert Parker, Ulf Merbold and Byron Lichtenberg (complete crew less John Young) plus support team members John Neilson (Cargo Project Management) and William Rock (Shuttle Project Management), Kennedy Space Center launch date roller cancels tie US and German stamps (crew member Merbold from Germany), Very Fine (Image)

CV. 100-150

1986 Space Shuttle STS-51-L "Challenger" Launch Cover signed by crew member S. Christa McAuliffe on airmail envelope with Merritt Island L.N.M.I. Br. Jan 28 1986 hand cancel, small pictures of the Challenger crew and design of the flight patch also affixed, back side with a Mission 51-L informational handstamp, Very Fine, McAuliffe was chosen among 11,000 applicants to be the first teacher in space and had been scheduled to conduct two classes while in space (Image)

CV. 400-500

1989 STS-33 Space Shuttle "Discovery" Crew Signed Cover, Artopage generic space cacheted envelope signed by John Blaha, Fred Gregory, Story Musgrave, Sonny Carter and Kathy Thornton plus S David Griggs who was to have been the pilot of this mission but was killed in a vintage WW II plane crash in June 1989 during training for the mission (replaced by Blaha), Kennedy Space Center Nov 22 1989 slogan cancel, small flight patch sticker at upper left, Very Fine and unusual (Image)

CV. 200-250