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General Space Covers
(Part 2)

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This list contains all types of covers for air and space events, such as space manned flights, space recoveries from ships, satellite launches, space anniversaries, special air flights and balloon events, etc.

Notes

All covers are the number 6 size unless otherwise noted.
All covers are unaddressed unless otherwise noted.
All covers are cacheted unless otherwise noted and a description is given so you know exactly what you are ordering.
Where stamp(s) used on the cover are significant such as being a space stamp or a flag stamp or related to the event or location, they will be described. Otherwise the stamp(s) used on the cover may be a definitive or an unrelated issue.
All autographs are genuine.
Covers are not listed in any particular order.
When ordering, it is IMPORTANT that you order by LIST ID AS WELL AS ITEM ID. Please use the ORDER FORM.

Abbreviations

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Price List

LIST ID

ITEM ID

PRICE

CANCEL DATE

CANCEL LOC

AIRSPC02	0240A	$4.00	11/10/1965	F
YEMEN: U.S. AND U.S.S.R OUTER SPACE ACHIEVEMENT STAMPS FIRST DAY COVER, with a first day of issue hand cancel of Nov. 10, 1965 (if city is listed in the cancel it must be in arabic). A 4b stamp shows USSR manned space capsule with cosmonaut doing a space walk by Pavel Belyaev March 1965 and a 6b airmail stamp showing the Gemini 4 space capsule and Edward White doing a space walk June 1965. Blue printed cachet shows a stylized rocket launch, and printed text: "First Day Cover". Cover size 4-1/2 by 6-1/4 inches. If you can identify the catalog number of these two stamps it would be most helpful, thanks. IMAGE

AIRSPC02	0250A	$4.00	12/23/1986	E
(DICK RUTAN'S NON-STOP FLIGHT AROUND THE WORLD IN THE VOYAGER AIRCRAFT), with Edwards AFB CA hand cancel on 22 cent "buffalo" postal stationery envelope. Black printed cachet (unmarked) with printed text: "Voyager Makes It 'Round the World", cachet shows map of the world with his intended route and the actual route of Voyager's flight. (It was the first-ever, non-stop, unrefueled flight around the world. It took place between December 14 and December 23, 1986 and ending at Edwards Air Force Base in California).

AIRSPC02	0304	$7.50	07/16/1969	H
APOLLO 11 LAUNCH (FIRST MANNED MOONLANDING FLIGHT). Houston TX MC on Apollo 8 stamp, with NASA local post 5-cent local stamp showing Apollo Capsule, tied to cover by local cancel. Attractive red printed cachet for Apollo 11 liftoff, by Space City Cover Society.

AIRSPC02	0308	$4.00	06/03/1975	K
TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GEMINI 4 MANNED SPACE FLIGHT cover from the Smithsonian Institutional National Air & Space Museum (NASM), printed cachet #28 in the Milestones of Flight Commemorative Series shows astronaut Ed White in the first U.S. Space Walk. With KSC FL MC on Space stamp. Cancel date is not clear as it falls on the stamp. Label address from the NASM.

AIRSPC02	0321A	$3.00	12/17/1969
APOLLO 11 KITTY HAWK TO THE MOON COMMEMORATIVE COVER. With machine cancel of Kitty Hawk NC on Apollo 11 First Man on Moon stamp (#C76 which was issued just 3 months earlier on Sept. 9, 1969). With blue FLEETWOOD engraved printed cachet commemorating the Apollo 11 moonlanding (looks like a cachet that was prepared for the first day of issue of the #C76 stamp). Bottom part of the cover has a printed label affixed with text that reads: "Commemorating Man's first flight at Kitty Hawk and Man's first visit to the Moon." Typed address. (The Wright Brothers made the first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk on Dec. 17, 1903). IMAGE

AIRSPC02	0322	$3.00	07/16/1974	C
APOLLO 11 LAUNCH COMPLEX DEDICATION, becomes national historic landmark on this date. Commemorative cover with Cape Canaveral FL special MC slogan that reads "First Lunar Landing, 5th anniversary Jul. 20 '74" on flag stamp. Date is 5th anniversary of Apollo 11 launch also. Two- color rubber stamp cachet for event shows Apollo 11 emblem, Apollo/Saturn launch vehicle and word text.

AIRSPC02	0323	$3.00	07/21/1974	DC
APOLLO 11 SPACE WINDOW DEDICATED AT THE WASHINGTON CATHEDRAL. (The window contains 7 grams of lunar rock and the Apollo 11 astronauts were in attendance for the dedication). Commemorative cover with Washington DC HC on 10-cent Mineral Heritage stamp showing rock crystals (a stamp most appropriate for this kind of lunar rock dedication). Two-color rubber stamp cachet for event shows first man on moon stamp and word text for event.

AIRSPC02	0324	$2.00	12/01/1961	DC
EARLY SPACE SLOGAN CANCEL: Bellingham Wash. Reads "America's Space Age/World's Fair/Seattle USA 1962". Very readable cancel on 3-cent Fort Bliss stamp (first U.S. space stamp that shows rocket launch). Pictorial Mercury Capsule rubber stamp cachet. There is some toning on the envelope.

AIRSPC02	0325	$2.00	12/01/1961
EARLY SPACE SLOGAN CANCEL: Spokane Wash. Reads "America's Space Age/World's Fair/Seattle USA 1962". Very readable cancel on 3-cent Fort Bliss stamp (first U.S. space stamp that shows rocket launch). Pictorial Mercury Capsule rubber stamp cachet. There is some toning on the envelope.

AIRSPC02	0326	$2.00	12/01/1961
EARLY SPACE SLOGAN CANCEL: Vancouver Wash. Reads "America's Space Age/World's Fair/Seattle USA 1962". Very readable cancel on 3-cent Fort Bliss stamp (first U.S. space stamp that shows rocket launch). Pictorial Mercury Capsule rubber stamp cachet. There is some toning on the envelope.

AIRSPC02	0327	$3.00	03/04/1979
ALBERT EINSTEIN COMMEMORATIVE STAMP FDC (#1774), Princeton NJ first day of issue hand cancel on stamped vertical card, (3-1/2 x 5-1/2"). Colorano silk cachet shows different view of noted German/American physicist and Nobel Laureate who is perhaps the most well-known scientist of the 20th century.

AIRSPC02	0328A	$25.00	07/01/1976	DC
AUTOGRAPHED COMMEMORATIVE COVER FOR FIRST DAY OF OPENING OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM. With Washington DC Smithsonian Sta. Pictorial cancel on Apollo 11 space stamp and 6-cent 50th anniversary of powered flight airmail stamp. Black printed cachet by "SHUE" shows space vehicle display inside museum and appropriate word text: Air, Space Museum Opens July 1. Cover autographed and inscribed: "F.C. Durant III, Asst. Dir. '64-80". (Frederick C. Durant III, a U.S. rocket pioneer, was the Assistant Director of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 1969-1980, a very appropriate autograph for this cover).

AIRSPC02	0329	$2.50	03/08/1987
SOPEX '87 STA, ANDOVER MA. PICTORIAL SHOW CANCEL honors the 25th anniversary flight of Friendship 7, Project Mercury, shows Mercury Capsule in orbit over Earth, with Mercury and flag postage stamps. Black printed SOPEX cachet shows John Glenn and his Friendship 7 Mercury Capsule and appropriate word text about his space flight.

AIRSPC02	0330	$2.00	10/13/1975	DC
ASTP (APOLLO SOYUZ) COSMONAUTS TOUR THE USA. First stop in the USA at the White House. With Washington DC large Bull's Eye hand cancel on pair of the ASTP stamps (#1569 and 1570), Multicolor Fleetwood Apollo/Soyuz printed cachet (prepared for first day of issue of the ASTP stamps) + added rubber stamp word text for this commemorative event.

AIRSPC02	0330D	$4.00	07/17/1975	F
APOLLO SOYUZ SPECIAL CANCEL, EAST GERMANY. With large pictorial hand cancel of Erfurt (DDR) showing the ASTP link-up emblem, on an Intercosmos 10 satellite stamp (#1664). With two color printed cachet showing the Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts about to link up over German tracking station at Erfurt, with German text that reads in part: "Kopplung von Sojus-Apollo" (meaning link up of Soyuz and Apollo). Cover size: 4-1/2"x6-1/2" IMAGE

AIRSPC02	0332	$2.50	11/18/1979
UNUSUAL APOLLO 11 PICTORIAL SHOW CANCEL TIES FOREIGN STAMP TO COVER: JOJEX Sta., Johnstown PA HC shows astronaut's shoe making a moon footprint with wording "One Small Step" (for 10th anniversary of moonlanding) on flag stamp. This USPS cancel also ties a 1/2-cent Grenada Apollo 11 astronaut gathering moon rocks stamp (that is part of the cachet). Appropriate rubber stamp word cachet for Apollo 11 first step on moon.

AIRSPC02	0333A	$4.00	05/05/1971	K
10TH ANNIVERSARY MERCURY 3 FLIGHT (U.S. 1st Manned Space flight with Alan Shepard), with Kennedy Space Center FL machine cancel on flag stamp. Red and blue printed cachet by Heritage Crafts (unmarked) with printed text: "10 Anniversary Manned Space Flight, John F. Kennedy Space Center", cachet shows the Apollo 11/Saturn rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center and a picture of President John F. Kennedy plus a part of his famous quote: "...landing a man on the Moon - and returning him safely to Earth.". Backside of cover has a boxed red word rubber stamp cachet: "Secret Titan 3C Launch complex-40 KSC 3:43 a.m. EDT, Spy in the Sky Satellite". IMAGE

AIRSPC02	0333M	$45.00	07/21/1961	P
(MR-4, ASTRONAUT GUS GRISSOM) PROJECT MERCURY SPACECRAFT LAUNCH (2nd manned suborbital space flight). Patrick Air Force Base FL MC on Echo Space Satellite (#1173) stamp. Two color printed cachet by SPACECRAFT COVERS CACHETS for this "Liberty Bell 7" flight, shows trajectory and recovery by helicopter, and small inset photo of Capt. Virgil I. Grissom. Cover has printed address of J.R. Fitzpatrick (the originator of Space Craft Covers). IMAGE

AIRSPC02	0336	$4.00	05/12/1968
(FIRST DAY OF USE OF NEW CANCEL) - GRISSOM AFB INDIANA, Rededication ceremony cover naming air base in honor of astronaut and Lt. Col. Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom (who was killed in the flash fire of the Apollo One Capsule in Jan of 1967). Cancel ties two Gemini single stamps to cover (#1331 and #1332). (Grissom was a Gemini 3 astronaut). Appropriate blue printed cachet for event with emblem of the 305th Bombardment Wing at the Air Base. Small rubber stamp address.

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