Mercury Project/John Glenn Commemorative Covers, Feb. 20, 1962 to Date

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John Glenn, First Space Senator Commemorative Cover

Notes Special sale of Project Mercury commemorative covers for the three orbit flight of John H.Glenn, Jr. in his space capsule "Friendship 7" on Feb. 20, 1962. Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. Also included are other covers commemorating John Glenn and/or his flight such as special cancels, anniversaries, foreign cancels, special events etc. Did you know that when the Project Mercury stamp (issued for the successful completion of Glenn's Mercury Project space flight) was issued on Feb. 20, 1962 there was no post office named Cape Canaveral? Cape Canaveral was a geographical name for a point of land where the launch took place. The town of Port Canaveral FL did exist at the time of the Mercury/Glenn launch and many Glenn launch covers were cancelled there. Sometime later its name was changed to Cape Canaveral. So thats why you will find no John Glenn launch "commemorative" covers with the Cape Canaveral FL cancel. The only Cape Canaveral FL cancelled covers of Feb. 20, 1962 will be "FIRST DAY COVERS" specially created by the U.S. Postal Service! All ITEMS are covers unless otherwise noted. All covers are the standard U.S. size (number 6), as collected in the USA, unless otherwise noted. All covers are unaddressed unless otherwise noted. All covers are cacheted and a brief description is given of the event being commemorated, unless otherwise noted. If covers are autographed they are genuine. Abbreviations Or if javascript disabled... Click Here

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