Richard Gordon

An extraordinary artifact of modern space exploration: an original philatelic cover flown aboard the International Space Station during Expedition 65

Robert Thirsk and Michael Barratt

The cover was postmarked aboard the ISS on June 8

and visiting Shuttle crews entered the station to carry out maintenance

STS-71 - Soyuz TM-21 first docking - Space Shuttle FLOWN cover Challenger Richard GordonSTS 71 First ShuttleMir Docking Flown Cover, Signed by Solovyev and Budarin A very rare official cover carried aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis to the Mir space station during STS 71, one of the defining missions of post Cold War space exploration. The cover was flown from Earth aboard Atlantis and postmarked aboard Mir on June 29, 1995the exact date of the first docking between an American Space Shuttle and the Russian orbital station. It is hand signed