Price List - Apollo/Saturn: (AS-201 to AS-502) Flight Commemorative Covers - Orbit cachets (Color Printed & Engraved Cachets) /Joe Frasketi's Philatelic Space Covers

Apollo/Saturn: The Early Unmanned Flights
(AS-201 to AS-502) Commemorative Flight Covers,
with "Orbit Covers"
Color Printed & Engraved Printed Cachets.

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(AS-201) Apollo 1 launch.
with a "Plugged 9" cancel.

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.

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Price List

LIST ID

ITEM ID

PRICE

CANCEL DATE

CANCEL LOC

ORBIT6	015A	$10.00	02/26/1966	C
(AS-201) APOLLO 1, FIRST SUB-ORBITAL MISSION (UNMANNED) LAUNCH COVER, , Cape Canaveral FL hand cancel (plugged 9) on a 5 cent flag stamp. With a red and blue ORBIT COVERS color printed cachet (unidentified), that shows the Apollo Saturn rocket, The Apollo capsule re-entry, the Apollo/NASA Emblem, and a map of the Apollo path that it took after launch, with text: "APOLLO PROGRAM, 1st Sub-Orbital Mission. First Apollo Moon Capsule Flight, 5,500 mile heat re-entry test, launched 11:13 AM, recovered 2:13 PM". NOTE: This is a "plugged 9" cancel.

ORBIT6	025	$15.00	07/05/1966	C
(AS-203) APOLLO 2, FIRST ORBITAL MISSION (UNMANNED) LAUNCH COVER, , Cape Canaveral FL hand cancel (plugged 9) on a 5 cent flag stamp. With a purple and light blue ORBIT COVERS color printed cachet (unidentified), that shows the Apollo Saturn rocket, The Apollo capsule, a diagram of the rocket engine and a map of the Apollo orbits around the earth, with text: "APOLLO II, First Orbital Mission. Saturn Moon Rocket 2nd Stage Orbited. Lquid Hydrogen Fuel Space Test, 92 Ft. 58,000 stage fired 10:53 AM EDT". NOTE: This is a "plugged 9" cancel.

ORBIT6	025A	$20.00	07/05/1966	C
(AS-203) APOLLO 2, FIRST ORBITAL MISSION (UNMANNED) LAUNCH COVER, , Cape Canaveral FL hand cancel on a 5 cent flag stamp. With a purple and light blue ORBIT COVERS color printed cachet (unidentified), that shows the Apollo Saturn rocket, the Apollo capsule, a diagram of the rocket engine and a map of the Apollo orbits around the earth, with text: "APOLLO II, First Orbital Mission. Saturn Moon Rocket 2nd Stage Orbited. Lquid Hydrogen Fuel Space Test, 92 Ft. 58,600 stage fired 10:53 AM EDT". IMAGE

ORBIT6	035A	$10.00	08/25/1966	C
(AS-202) APOLLO 3, FIRST TEST OF THE APOLLO CAPSULES HEAT SHIELD (UNMANNED) LAUNCH COVER, Cape Canaveral FL hand cancel (plugged 9) on a 5 cent flag stamp. With a red and black ORBIT COVERS color printed cachet, that shows the Apollo Saturn rocket on the launch pad with astronauts walking towards it, The Apollo capsule and a map of the Apollo flight path from launch to splashdown, with text: "APOLLO III, 1st fully equipped Apollo Spacecraft test, 1st flight Apollo guidance & navigation systems, 19,000 MPH heat shield re-entry test. Launched 1:16 PM - Recovered 2:49 PM EDT". NOTE: This is a "plugged 9" cancel.

ORBIT6	040A	$15.00	11/09/1967	C
(AS-501) APOLLO 4, FIRST TEST OF THE SATURN 5 FIRST STAGE (UNMANNED) LAUNCH COVER , Cape Canaveral FL machine cancel on a 5 cent Gemini space walk stamp (#1331). With greenish black ORBIT COVERS engraved printed cachet that shows the Saturn 5 rocket on the launch pad; the Apollo/NASA emblem; Dr. Wernher von Braun, space pioneer; President John F. Kennedy with his famous quote: "A Manned Expedition to the Moon will be a beginning not an end"; plus other Apollo subjects, with text: "Apollo Saturn, Apollo-4, launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida". IMAGE

ORBIT6	050	$12.00	01/22/1968	C
(AS-204) APOLLO 5, THE FIRST LUNAR MODULE FLIGHT (UNMANNED) LAUNCH COVER , Cape Canaveral FL machine cancel on a 6 cent Roosevelt definitive stamp. With greenish black ORBIT COVERS engraved printed cachet that shows the Saturn rocket on the launch pad; the Lunar Module connected to the Apollo capsule, Dr. Hugh Dryden, Space Pioneer; and President Lyndon Johnson with scientist W.H. Pickering, (the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory), both viewing a Ranger spacecraft photo, with text: "Saturn Apollo-5, launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida". IMAGE

ORBIT6	050A	$12.00	01/22/1968	C
(AS-204) APOLLO 5, THE FIRST LUNAR MODULE FLIGHT (UNMANNED) LAUNCH COVER , Cape Canaveral FL hand cancel on a 6 cent Roosevelt definitive stamp. With greenish black ORBIT COVERS engraved printed cachet that shows the Saturn rocket on the launch pad; the Lunar Module connected to the Apollo capsule, Dr. Hugh Dryden, Space Pioneer; and President Lyndon Johnson with scientist W.H. Pickering, (the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory), both viewing a Ranger spacecraft photo, with text: "Saturn Apollo-5, launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida". IMAGE

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