Price List - Gemini Project Flight Covers, GT-1 thru GT-12- Joe Frasketi's Space Covers /Joe Frasketi's Philatelic Space Covers

GEMINI PROGRAM
COMMEMORATIVE FLIGHT COVERS:
GT-01 through GT-12 events,
USA and Foreign covers.

Can't Find what you're looking for? Try our Search....

General Notes

All sorts of Gemini covers are on this list including Gemini tracking stations and tracking ship covers, but :
Covers for the Gemini Secondary Recovery Ships can be found by clicking: HERE.

Covers for the Gemini Primary Recovery Ships can be found by clicking: HERE.

General Notes

All items are covers unless otherwise noted.
All covers are the standard U.S. #6 size (approximately 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches), as collected in the USA, unless otherwise noted.
Foreign covers may be slightly smaller in size than the standard U.S. #6 size and if so, their size will NOT be noted. Any cover larger than a number 6 size will be noted or any item of an unordinary size will be so noted.
All covers are unaddressed unless otherwise noted.
All covers are cacheted unless otherwise noted. A brief description of the cachet is given of the event being commemorated.
If covers are autographed they are genuine, unless otherwise noted.
Where stamp(s) used on the item are of significance, such as being a space stamp or a flag stamp or related to the event or location, it will be described. Otherwise the stamp(s) used on the item may be a definitive issue or an unrelated commemorative issue, and will not be described.
Items listed here may not be listed in any particular order.
Please print out the ON-LINE ORDER FORM and use it to mark down the covers you need. When ordering, please mark the LIST ID as well as ITEM ID.

Abbreviations

Or if javascript disabled... Click Here

Price List

LIST ID

ITEM ID

PRICE

CANCEL DATE

CANCEL LOC

GT00A	00100A	$3.00	01/03/1968	C
6th ANNIVERSARY NAMING OF THE GEMINI PROGRAM & TEAM 2, U.S. ASTRONAUTS SELECTED, With a hand cancel of Cape Canaveral FL, on Gemini twin stamps: Gemini capsule & walk in space (#1331-2). With a red SOKALSKY printed cachet showing 9 astronaut heads & a large arrow pointing upward. With red & black printed & rubber stamp word cachet reading: "Sixth Anniversary, Team 2, U.S. Astronauts Selected." The Jan 3, 1968 cancel is the 6th anniversary of the official naming of the "Gemini" space program. (for the twin stars Castor and Pollux in the constellation Gemini: the Twins, that symbolize the program's two-man crew and its rendezvous mission). [The 9 new astronauts for the Gemini Program were selected in September 1962: Neil Armstrong, Frank Borman, Charles Conrad, Jim McDivitt, Jim Lovell, Elliott See, Tom Stafford, Ed White and John Young].

GT00A	03100B	$4.00	03/23/1965	F
GEMINI 3, ETR ANTIGUA TRACKING STATION COVER, With a poor St. Johns Antigua hand cancel of March 23, 1965 (however, the date is unreadable). Cover is a HJM black border printed cachet showing various space satellites, the Gemini capsule, the NASA emblem, the Gemini Titan launch vehicle and printed text: "Commemorating a United States Space Achievement" with additional rubber stamp text cachet: "Eastern Test Range, Gemini Tracking Station." plus a red rubber stamp cachet of a Gemini space capsule, and a blue BECK circular rubber stamp text cachet for Gemini 3 that lists the two Gemini 3 astronauts, the date and length of the flight and the prime recovery ship USS Intrepid.

GT00A	03500A	$2.50	03/23/1990	C
25th ANNIVERSARY GEMINI 3 FLIGHT, With a hand cancel of Cape Canaveral FL March 23, 1990, on a flag stamp. With a black TITUSVILLE MOONPORT STAMP CLUB printed cachet showing their artist rendition depicting the Gemini 3 emblem, of the Gemini capsule with printed text: "Grissom - Young, GT-3, Molly Brown." Other printed text on the cover reads: "25th Anniversary Project Gemini, GT-3 Molly Brown. Official Commenorative Titusville - Moonport Stamp Club."

GT00A	04063A	$10.00	06/17/1965
GEMINI 4 TRACKING SHIP COMMEMORATIVE COVER, With a Rodman, Canal Zone machine cancel of June 17, 1965 on a 5 cent U.S. Flag stamp AND a 4 cent Canal Zone stamp showing a ship (very unusual mixed combination of stamps on such a cover). With DOCUMENT typed cachet filled in and autographed by the Executive Officer of the USNS Rose Knot (T-AGM-14). The typed cachet reads: "This cachet was stamped and countersigned on June 7, 1965 in Lat.21 South, Long.82 West upon completion of four days of orbiting astronauts J. McDivitt and E. White. It was mailed upon arrival at the first port of call, after completion of the above. (signed) Executive Officer. ". there is one line of black rubber stamp text that reads "USNS Rose Knot (T-ACM-14)" and one additional typed line reading "Project Gemini IV". IMAGE

GT00A	04590AQ	$4.00	06/03/1975	K
10th ANNIVERSARY GEMINI 4 MANNED SPACE FLIGHT, cover from the Smithsonian Institution National Air & Space Museum (NASM). With a NASM #28 printed cachet in the Milestones of Flight Commemorative Series shows astronaut Ed White in the first U.S. Space Walk. With Kennedy Space Center FL machine cancel, June 3, 1975, on a space stamp. (NOTE: Cancel date is not clear as it falls on the stamp.) IMAGE

GT00A	05010AA	$6.00	08/21/1965	P
GEMINI 5 SPACECRAFT LAUNCH Patrick Air Force Base FL machine cancel August 21, 1965 on a New York Worlds Fair 5 cent postal stationery envelope, showing a stylized world globe with a satellite in orbit stamp (#U546). Two color SPACECRAFT COVERS CACHETS printed cachet for this GT-5 flight, with printed text: " GT-5, Project Gemini, 8 days in space. Space-flight endurance record. Set by Astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad. Rendezvous with radar "Hawkeye', launched by Titan II, 10:00 a.m. EDT, 21 August 1965". With small one line rubber stamp address, (which is customary for this cachetmakers covers). Cover comes with descriptive filler card about Project Gemini. NOTE: There a couple of very small visable black marks on the right front edge of the envelope, and some brown stains on the backside of the envelope, these which you can only see when the cover is turned over. Price of this cover has been reduced accordingly.

GT00A	05100B	$6.00	08/21/1965	F
GEMINI 5, ETR ANTIGUA TRACKING STATION COVER, With a St. Johns Antigua hand cancel 21 August 21, 1965 on a set of 2 International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Centenary stamps (#153-154). A registered cover, with a HJM black border printed cachet showing various space satellites, the Gemini capsule, the NASA emblem, the Gemini Titan launch vehicle & printed text: "Commemorating a United States Space Achievement" with additional rubber stamp text cachet: "Eastern Test Range, Gemini Tracking Station." and a red BECK circular rubber stamp text cachet for Gemini 5 that lists the two Gemini 5 astronauts, the dates of the flight, the length of the flight & the prime recovery ship USS Champlain. Cover is autographed & has a small rubber stamp address. (Besides the register marking on the front, there are two hand cancels on the backside: an Antigua registered hand stamp of Aug. 21, 1965 & a Patrick Air Force Base FL hand cancel of Aug. 25).

GT00A	20163AMQ	$12.00	11/03/1966	P
GEMINI/MOL CAPSULE TEST LAUNCH, ("MOL" IS THE USAF MANNED ORBITING LABORATORY PROGRAM), With machine cancel of Patrick Air Force Base FL, on 5 cent John Kennedy commemorative stamp (#1246). With two color SPACE CRAFT COVERS printed cachet showing this spacecraft over earth, and text: "Titan 3C/Heat Shield Test, Gemini capsule. First flight trial connected with the Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory - MOL program. Launched by Titan 3C, 8:50 a.m. EST". Small printed address.

GT00A	20163MQ	$12.00	11/03/1966	C
GEMINI/MOL CAPSULE TEST LAUNCH, ("MOL" IS THE USAF MANNED ORBITING LABORATORY PROGRAM), With machine cancel of Cape Canaveral FL, on 5 cent Flag stamp. With two color SPACE CRAFT COVERS printed cachet showing this spacecraft over earth, and text: "Titan 3C/Heat Shield Test, Gemini capsule. First flight trial connected with the Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory - MOL program. Launched by Titan 3C, 8:50 a.m. EST". Small printed address. IMAGE

DB: stats: tusd(25,9,16,0)

Click below for other Gemini Cover Lists
Gemini Primary Recovery Ships
Gemini Secondary Recovery Ships

Today is Sunday, 23-Feb-2020 18:47:11 EST

Last updated: Sun Sep 1 13:50:53 2013 - [_user_joe,99]

Send Email to Joe