SPACE COVERS
ITEM # | DECRIPTION | CATALOG ## | NOTES | |
0001 | Project Mercury
Atlas-9 / Leroy G. Cooper, Jr. / Orbits the Earth from Cape Canaveral,
Florida
"CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. / MAY 16 P.M. 1963" (Hand cancel) |
1208 | Mission dates: May 15-16, 1963. This was the longest of the manned Mercury flights, at 34 hours, 19 minutes, 49 seconds. | |
0002 | MIT LES-6 /
Lincoln Experimental Satellite "CAPE CANAVERAL, FL. 32920 / SEP 26 AM 1968" |
1338 | Designed and built by the Massachusett's Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory, as part of an Air Force-sponsored program testing new space communications technologies. | |
0003 | Apollo 7 /
Launch cover - Commemorating the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission "CAPE CANAVERAL, FL. 32920 / OCT 11 AM 1968" |
1338 | Commemorating the service of Astromauts Roger B. Chaffee, Virgil I. Grissom and Edward H. White, II, who died on the launch pad when a fire broke out during a pre-flight test on January 27, 1967. | |
0004 | Apollo-7 Launch
cover / Donn F. Eisele, Waly M. Schirra and Walter Cunningham "CAPE CANAVERAL, FL. 32920 / OCT 11 AM 1968" |
1338 | Mission: October 11-22, 1968. | |
0005 | Apollo 12 Moon
Landing cover / Charles Conrad and Alan Bean working on the lunar
surface "CAPE CANAVERAL, FL. 32920 / NOV 19 AM 1969" |
C76 | Commemorating the second manned moon landing mission. Mission: November 14-24, 1969. | |
0006 | (Same as #0005 above) | C76 | (See above) | |
0007 | (Same as #0005 above) | C76 | (See above) | |
0008 | Apollo 15 Moon
Landing / David Scott, Alfred Worden and James Irwin "TITUSVILLE, FL 32780 / ASTRONAUT TRAIL STA. / JUL 30 PM 1971" (Hand cancel) |
1338F | Ninth manned moon landing mission. Mission: July 26-August 7, 1971. | |
0009 | Apollo 17 Moon
Landing / Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt "HOUSTON TX 77013 / DEC 11 PM 1972" (Hand cancel) |
1435 | Mission: December 7-19, 1972. Eleventh and final manned Apollo mission to the Moon. | |
0010 |
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(Same as #0010 above) (Hand cancel) | 1435 | (See above) |
0011 | Apollo 17
Splashdown - Recovery in the Pacific by crews of the U.S.S. Ticonderoga "CAPE CANAVERAL, FL. 32920 / DEC 19 PM 1972" |
1447 |