Pricelist - STS Space Shuttle Flight covers, Colorano Silk Cachets /Joe Frasketi's Philatelic Space Covers

STS
Space Shuttle Flight Covers
with
Colorano "Silk" Cachets
(for non Challenger flights)

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Example of a
COLORANO "SILK" CACHETED COVER

Specific Notes for the covers on this pricelist

All of the commemorative covers listed below have a Colorano "Silk" cachet and each cachet is different, although some cachets may be of the same event but are of a different view, such as for launchings and printed text cachets are worded differently.
However there is one exception to the above statement about different cachets: for the first flight of the Shuttle, STS-1, on April 12, 1981, both the Cape Canaveral FL and Houston TX covers have the same identical "Silk" cachet and the same printed text!
The majority of the cachets are of photographs of the actual event which are printed on silk which is attached to the envelope and there is a gold color embossed border around the cachet.
However there are a few exceptions to the above statement: a few cachets may show artists renditions of the astronauts or the event and a few cachets will show the Shuttle emblem/patch, this mostly occurs on the Department of Defense missions where actual events may be classified and so the emblem/patch is subsituted.
This list only contains flights by these Shuttle Orbiters: Enterprise, Columbia, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour.
A separate price list will soon be issued for the flights of the Challenger Shuttle Orbiter spacecraft, as many collectors specialize in just the Challenger flights.
The Shuttle flights listed below are listed in chronological order, however the STS numbering system for the flights are not in sequence, as this is determined by NASA.
In some cases below, for a particular Shuttle Flight, the Shuttle landing cover may be listed before Shuttle launch covers, due to the numbering system I use for located individual covers in my stock.
In many cases covers on this list have both a space stamp and a definitive stamp, however I only list the space stamp. (the combined value of the stamps make up the postage rate that existed when the cover was issued).

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.
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Price List

LIST ID

ITEM ID

PRICE

CANCEL DATE

CANCEL LOC

STSCO1	0097B	$6.00	03/10/1978	H
TRANSPORTING THE SPACE SHUTTLE TO HOUSTON TX, with a hand cancel of Houston TX on a Lindbergh transatlantic stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the Space Shuttle atop the 747 aircraft during flight. With 5 lines of printed text that reads: Transporting the Space Shuttle. Arrival. March 10, 1978, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas."

STSCO1	0097C	$6.00	03/13/1978	HU
TRANSPORTING THE SPACE SHUTTLE TO HUNTSVILLE AL, with a hand cancel of Huntsville AL, Marshall Space Flight Center Br. on a Lindbergh transatlantic stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the Space Shuttle atop the 747 aircraft during flight. With 5 lines of printed text that reads: Transporting the Space Shuttle. Arrival. March 13, 1978, Marshall Space Center, Huntsville, Alabama."

STSCO1	0101A	$10.00	04/12/1981	K
STS-1 LAUNCH, with a machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL FL on a Copernicus 8 cent stamp and a Mariner 10/Venus Mercury 10 cent space stamp, (part of the KSC cancel date is not readable as it falls on stamps). With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the 2 STS-1 astronauts and the launch of the Space Shuttle in the background. With 9 lines of printed text that reads: "Space Shuttle Columbia Lift-Off. April 12, 1981 (7 A.M. EST) - The largest solid rocket motors ever flown lifted the Columbia off Pad 39A with 6 million lbs. of thrust at Kennedy Space Center today. The Columbia left a fiery trail across the morning sky carrying Commander John Young and Pilot Bob Crippen on their journey into space and the history books. It was the first United States manned launch in six years and one of NASA's bravest ventures yet." (Mission payload: First orbital test flight). IMAGE

STSCO1	0102A	$10.00	04/12/1981	H
STS-1 CARGO BAY DOOR TEST, with a hand cancel of Houston TX on a "B" Eagle stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the Space Shuttle over the earth. With 8 lines of printed text that reads: "Columbia's Cargo Bay Doors Open. April 12, 1981 - Eighty minutes into flight the Shuttle Astronauts began their more important in orbit test- operating the motor-driven latches to open the large doors on the Shuttle;s 60 foot long cargo bay. The doors must be open to dissipate Columbia's waste heat into space. A malfunction would have cancelled the mission after five orbits." (Mission payload: First orbital test flight). IMAGE

STSCO1	0111B	$6.00	03/30/1982	WS
STS-3 LANDING, with a hand cancel of White Sands Missile Range NM on an 18 cent space shuttle stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the Space Shuttle returning to earth. With 11 lines of printed text that reads in part: "Return of Columbia STS-III. March 30, 1982 - Just 51 minutes prior to landing Astronauts Lousma and Fullerton fired up the twin 6,000 pound thrust engines of the Columbia to drive the vehicle from orbit..........At 200 feet Lousma took over the controls and Columbia landed on the desert floor of White Sands, N.M. completing a successful 8 day mission." (Mission payload: Office of Space Science-1 [OSS-1]).

STSCO1	0113	$6.00	03/22/1982	H
STS-3 LAUNCH, with a hand cancel of Houston TX on 20 cent Flag stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the launch of the Space Shuttle. With 10 lines of printed text that reads in part: "Space Shuttle Columbia - Third Flight. March 22, 1982 - At 11 a.m. Astronauts Jack R. Lousma and C. Gordon Fullerton rode the Space Shuttle Columbia into an earth orbit just 10 1/2 minutes after lift-off." (Mission payload: Office of Space Science-1 [OSS-1]).

STSCO1	0116A	$6.00	06/27/1982	K
STS-4 LAUNCH, with space shuttle emblem pictorial machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on 20 cent Flag stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the launch of the Space Shuttle and astronauts Mattingly and Hartsfield. With 12 lines of printed text that reads in part: "Space Shuttle Columbia - Final Test Flight.......The fourth and final test flight was the first lift off without a single failure but a minor problem did occur later. The Shuttle was five miles short of its planned 190 mile orbit." (Mission payload: Last orbital test flight, beginning of operations).

STSCO1	0116B	$6.00	07/04/1982	E
STS-4 LANDING, with a hand cancel of Edwards AFB Sta. CA on an 20 cent Flag stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the returning astronauts on the ground with President and Mrs. Reagan beside the Space Shuttle. With 12 lines of printed text that reads in part: "Return of Columbia STS-IV.........President Reagan, his wife Nancy and over a half a million patriotic holiday onlookers were present as Astronauts Thomas K. Mattingly and Henry Hartsfield guided their shuttle spacecraft back to earth after a successful seven day mission.." (Mission payload: Last orbital test flight, beginning of operations).

STSCO1	0117	$6.00	06/27/1982	C
STS-4 LAUNCH, with hand cancel of Cape Canaveral FL on 20 cent Flag stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the Space Shuttle on the launch pad. With 10 lines of printed text that reads in part: "Space Shuttle Columbia STS-4 Lift-Off. .......STS-4 rose off its launch pad on a tail of orange flame......carrying Thomas Mattingly and Henry Hartsfield, rise in a picture perfect lift-off, the start of a seven day 113 orbit mission." (Mission payload: Last orbital test flight, beginning of operations).

STSCO1	0118	$6.00	06/27/1982	H
STS-4 LAUNCH, with a machine cancel of Houston TX on 20 cent Flag stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the launch of the Space Shuttle. With 9 lines of printed text that reads in part: "Space Shuttle Columbia - Final Test Flight.......STS-4 Space Shuttle thundered off its launch pad in the most perfect Shuttle lift off to date. The first burn put Astronauts Thomas Mattingly and Henry Hartsfield into an orbit ranging from 39 to 150 miles." (Mission payload: Last orbital test flight, beginning of operations).

STSCO1	0119	$5.00	06/27/1982	C
STS-4: SOLID FUEL ROCKETS LOST, with a hand cancel of Cape Canaveral FL on 20 cent Flag stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the solid fuel rockets separating from the Space Shuttle. With 9 lines of printed text that reads: "Columbia STS-4 Solid Fuel Rockets Lost at Sea. June 27, 1982 - The first casualty of the Columbia STS-4 mission occurred when the six chutes, designed to carry the rockets to the recovery area, failed to open. The top cone of the rockets, called the frustrum, and the parachutes were recovered and will be re-used later. The casings, which cost 25 million each, sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic." (Mission payload: Last orbital test flight, beginning of operations).

STSCO1	0120	$5.00	06/29/1982	H
STS-4: REMOTE MANIPULATOR SYSTEM, with a hand cancel of Houston TX on 20 cent Flag stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the cargo bay of Space Shuttle opened with the robot arm in use. With 14 lines of printed text that reads in part: "Astronaut Henry Hartsfield put the Canadian built robot arm to its greatest test today, picking up the 600 pound Induced Environmental Contamination Monitor.........The heaviest object the remote arm had yet lifted was then returned to its cargo bay position." (Mission payload: Last orbital test flight, beginning of operations).

STSCO1	0122	$6.00	11/11/1982	C
STS-5 LAUNCH, with a hand cancel of Cape Canaveral FL on 18 cent Space Shuttle launch stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the launch of the Space Shuttle. With 11 lines of printed text that reads in part: "Space Shuttle Columbia STS-5.........The Space Shuttle Columbia, carrying 20,000 pounds of communications satellites and a crew of four, cut loose with a trail of fire and smoke from launch pad 39-A.......The four crewmen, double the number on each of the four previous missions, are Commander Vance D. Brand, Pilot Robert V. Overmyer, and missions specialists Joseph P. Allen and William B. Lenoir." (Mission payload: Two communications satellites - comsats).

STSCO1	0123	$6.00	11/11/1982	H
STS-5 LAUNCH, with a machine cancel of Houston TX on an 18 cent space stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the Space Shuttle launch. With 11 lines of printed text that reads in part: "Space Shuttle Columbia STS-5.........The first operational mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia opened for business today........Astronauts Vance D. Brand, commander; Robert V. Overmyer, pilot and missions specialists Joseph P. Allen and William B. Lenoir make up the four man crew - double the number of each of the previous four missions. It is the first STS flight with mission specialists aboard." (Mission payload: Two communications satellites - comsats).

STSCO1	0144A	$5.00	11/28/1983	K
STS-9 LAUNCH, with a special Space Station pictorial hand cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL showing the space shuttle launch on an 18 cent space shuttle stamp, (cancel and stamp are very similar). With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows a group photo of the 6 STS-9 astronauts, with a picture of the Space Shuttle in the background. With 9 lines of printed text that reads in part: "Space Shuttle Columbia STS-9 - Spacelab 1......soared into space at 11 am today carrying a $1 billion research center and the world's largest space crew - Astronauts John Young, commander; Brewster Shaw Jr., pilot; Drs. Robert Parker and Owen Garriott, mission specialists; Drs. Ulf Merbold and Byron Lichtenberg, payload specialists." (Mission payload: First Spacelab Mission/SL-1).

STSCO1	0144AA	$5.00	11/28/1983	K
STS-9 LAUNCH, with a special Space Station pictorial hand cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL showing the space shuttle launch on an 18 cent Comprehending the Universe/Hubble space telescope stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows a group photo of the 6 STS-9 astronauts, with a picture of the Space Shuttle in the background. With 9 lines of printed text that reads in part: "Space Shuttle Columbia STS-9 - Spacelab 1......soared into space at 11 am today carrying a $1 billion research center and the world's largest space crew - Astronauts John Young, commander; Brewster Shaw Jr., pilot; Drs. Robert Parker and Owen Garriott, mission specialists; Drs. Ulf Merbold and Byron Lichtenberg, payload specialists." (Mission payload: First Spacelab Mission/SL-1). IMAGE

STSCO1	0144B	$5.00	12/08/1983	E
STS-9 LANDING, with a hand cancel of Edwards AFB CA Sta. on a space shuttle landing stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the Space Shuttle returning to earth. With 10 lines of printed text that reads in part: "Return of the Columbia STS-9 Spacelab I.....made a pinpoint landing on a dry lake bed runway at 6:47 pm EST at Edwards AFB after being delayed for eight hours by an on board computer failure.....Columbia carried Spacelab in its cargo bay and weighed 110 tons more than previous shuttles." (Mission payload: First Spacelab Mission/SL-1).

STSCO1	0144BB	$5.00	12/08/1983	E
STS-9 LANDING, with a hand cancel of Edwards AFB CA Sta. on an 18 cent Comprehending the Universe/Hubble space telescope stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the Space Shuttle returning to earth. With 10 lines of printed text that reads in part: "Return of the Columbia STS-9 Spacelab I.....made a pinpoint landing on a dry lake bed runway at 6:47 pm EST at Edwards AFB after being delayed for eight hours by an on board computer failure.....Columbia carried Spacelab in its cargo bay and weighed 110 tons more than previous shuttles." (Mission payload: First Spacelab Mission/SL-1). IMAGE

STSCO1	0145	$5.00	11/28/1983	C
STS-9 LAUNCH, with a machine cancel of Cape Canaveral FL on an 18 cent space stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the launch of the Space Shuttle. With 11 lines of printed text that reads in part: "Space Shuttle Columbia STS-9 - Spacelab I......Riding a fiery road of seven million pounds rocket thrust, Columbia STS-9 rose smoothly from its launch pad at 11 am today.........Astronauts John Young, commander; Brewster Shaw Jr., pilot; Drs. Robert Parker and Owen Garriott, mission specialists; Drs. Ulf Merbold and Byron Lichtenberg, payload specialists - make up the largest crew in space history." (Mission payload: First Spacelab Mission/SL-1).

STSCO1	0165	$4.00	09/01/1984	C
STS-41-D: COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE TELSTAR-3 DEPLOYED, with a machine cancel of Cape Canaveral FL on 20 cent Flag stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the deployment of the Telstar 3 communications satellite with the earth in the background. With 8 lines of printed text that reads in part: "September 1, 1984 - Discovery's astronauts launched their third and final satellite today......'You're three for three' President Ronald Reagan told the astronauts in a congratulatory radio call from the White House." IMAGE

STSCO1	0198A	$5.00	06/17/1985	K
STS-51-G LAUNCH, with a hand cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on a Mariner 10/Venus Mercury 10 cent space stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows a group photo of the 7 STS-51-G astronauts, their emblem/patch and a small model of the Space Shuttle. With 10 lines of printed text that reads in part: "Launch of the Discovery 51-G, 18th Space Shuttle Mission ........ began on schedule at 7:33 a.m. today after a stormy night in central Florida . Commanding the mission is Daniel C. Brandestein with pilot John O. Creighton; mission specialists Shannon W. Lucid, Steven R. Nagel and John M. Fabian; payload specialists Sultan Salman Abdelazize Al-Saud (Saudi Arabia) and Patrick Baudry (France)." (Mission payload: Com-sats: MORELOS-A, ARABSAT-A, TELSTAR-3D; Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool [SPARTAN-1]; six Get Away Special canisters; [HPTE] experiment; a Furnace [ADSF]; and two French biomedical experiments). IMAGE

STSCO1	0368A	$4.00	08/08/1992	K
STS-46 LANDING, with a hand cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on 29 cent Apollo spacecraft stamp (#2633). With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the STS-46 shuttle about to land. With 12 lines of printed text that reads in part: "Landing of Atlantis STS-46, 49th Space Shuttle Mission..... was waved off its first landing opportunity due to concerns about the weather and landed one orbit later.... completing an 8 day space mission". IMAGE

STSCO1	0368AA	$4.00	08/08/1992	K
STS-46 LANDING, with a hand cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on 29 cent Apollo NASA Astronaut & Russian Space Station stamp (#2632). With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the STS-46 shuttle about to land. With 12 lines of printed text that reads in part: "Return of the Atlantis STS-46, 49th Space Shuttle Mission..... was waved off its first landing opportunity due to concerns about the weather and landed one orbit later.... completing an 8 day space mission," (Mission payload: EURECA Platform, tether experiment TSS-1). IMAGE

STSCO1	0459A	$4.00	04/09/1994	H
STS-59/SRL-1 IN SPACE, with a hand cancel of Houston TX on a 29 cent flags stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the SRL-1 Emblem/Patch (STS-59), the shuttle with earth in the background. With 11 lines of printed text that reads: "U.S./German/Italian Space Radar Laboratory (SRL-1), 62nd Space Shuttle Mission. April 9, 1994 - The 600 million SRL-1 comprises two-frequency radar instruments and an atmospheric instrument, the measurment of Air Pollution from satellite (MAPS) payload. The Space Imaging Radar C (SIR-C) is two-frequency radar utilizing the 23.5 cm. wavelength in the C-band. Built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory & the Ball Communications Systems Div. for NASA, SIR-C is related to JPL's Seasat synthetic aperture radar (SAR), orbited in 1978 & SIR-A & SIR-B which flew in 1981 & 1984 respectively." (Mission payload: Space Radar Lab-1; CONCAP-IV; GAS; NIH Experiments). IMAGE

STSCO1	0470A	$4.00	07/13/1995	C
STS-70 LAUNCH, with a hand cancel of Cape Canaveral FL on a 29 cent flags stamp. With multicolored COLORANO SILK CACHET that shows the STS-70 space shuttle being launched. With 7 lines of printed text that reads: "Space Shuttle Discovery STS-70. July 13, 1995 - At 9:42 a.m. (EDT) the space shuttle Discovery roared into space from Kennedy Space Center's pad 398. Its primary mission was to place into earth orbit a Tracking & Data Relay Satellite (TRDS). On board were astronauts Terence Henricks, Kevin Kregel, Nancy Currie, Donald Thomas and Mary Ellen Weber (NASA Photo)." (Mission payload: TDRRS-G; crystal growth and biological experiments). IMAGE

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