Pricelist - STS Space Shuttle Mission Patches/Emblem covers /Joe Frasketi's Philatelic Space Covers

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Space Shuttle Flight Covers
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Mission Patches/Emblem Cachets

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shown above are the
mission patches/emblems of the first 3 Space Shuttle Flights
which are typical of the cachets on these covers.

Notes

All of the commemorative covers listed below have the Space Shuttle mission patch/emblem of that particular flight as the printed cachet, with the exception of a few covers that have the Shuttle/Mir Program Insignia Patch, which is fully described in the cover description.

Cachets issued by a stamp club or a dealer are so identified. If additional text is on the cachet it will be noted or if any other cachet is on the cover it will also be described.

The STS number is listed in the description for all the Shuttle Flights, the early covers do not have this number printed on the cachet, however it may be printed on the cachet issued by the stamp clubs that issued the later covers.

Many of the Shuttle mission patches/emblems do not list the name of the orbiter but they all give the names of the astronauts, with the exception of the Shuttle/Mir Program Insignia Patches, which do not list any astronaut names. The name of the Shuttle orbiter is provided in all the of the cover descriptions below, whether on the cachet or not.

All covers have a multicolored printed cachet unless otherwise noted.

The majority of these covers are for the launch, however many are for the landing of the Shuttle and a few covers have double cancels for the launch and Landing.

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.

If covers are autographed they are genuine.

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.

ADDITIONAL ABBREVIATIONS:

TMSC = Titusville Moonport Stamp Club.

Abbreviations

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Price List

LIST ID

ITEM ID

PRICE

CANCEL DATE

CANCEL LOC

STSEMB01	0013C	$8.00	04/12/1981	K
STS-1 LAUNCH, with a machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on a "B" Eagle stamp. With multicolored STS-1/Columbia emblem printed cachet (unidentified) that lists the astronauts: Young & Crippen. (Mission payload: First orbital test flight). IMAGE

STSEMB01	0021A	$5.00	11/12/1981	K
STS-2 LAUNCH, with a Shuttle pictorial machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on a space stamp. With multicolored STS-2/Columbia emblem printed cachet by TMSC, that lists the astronauts: Engle & Truly, with additional black word text around the emblem "Titusville Moonport Stamp Club, Official Commemorative Cover, Columbia's Second Flight". (Mission payload: Test of the Canadian robot arm/RMS).

STSEMB01	0021C	$5.00	11/12/1981	K
STS-2 LAUNCH, with a Shuttle pictorial machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL. With multicolored STS-2/Columbia emblem printed cachet (unidentified) that lists the astronauts: Engle & Truly. With additional black word text at bottom of emblem "Flight of STS- 2" and additional small printed cachet emblem of the Canadian Remote Manipulator System - RMS, with additional printed text: "First flight of the Remote Manipulator System, one of Canada's contributions to the Space Shuttle Program". (Mission payload: test of the Canadian robot arm - RMS). IMAGE

STSEMB01	0031B	$5.00	03/22/1982	K
STS-3 LAUNCH, with a machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on a Flag stamp. With multicolored STS-3/Columbia emblem printed cachet (unidentified) that lists the astronauts: Lousma & Fullerton. (Mission payload: Third orbital test flight, first experiments). IMAGE

STSEMB01	0048A	$7.50	06/27/1982	DBL
A SPECIAL DOUBLE CANCELLED STS-4 LAUNCH AND LANDING COVER. The 1st cancel is a Shuttle pictorial machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on a Shuttle space stamp. With multicolored STS-4/Columbia emblem printed cachet by TMSC, that lists the astronauts: Mattingly & Hartsfield, with additional red word text around the emblem "Columbia Makes its Fourth Flight, Titusville Moonport Stamp Club, Official Commemorative Cover". The 2nd cancel is a hand cancel of Edwards AFB Sta. CA of 07/04/1982 on a Flag stamp, for the landing of STS-4 Space Shuttle at Edwards AFB California. (Mission payload: Last orbital test flight, beginning of operations). IMAGE

STSEMB01	0051A	$5.50	11/11/1982	K
STS-5 LAUNCH, with a Shuttle pictorial machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on an 18 cent Space Shuttle stamp. With multicolored STS-5/Columbia emblem printed cachet by TMSC that lists the astronauts: Allen, Brand, Overmyer & Lenoir, with additional black word text around the emblem "STS-5 Columbia's First Operational Flight, Titusville Moonport Stamp Club, Official Commemorative Cover". (Mission payload: Two communications satellites - comsats).

STSEMB01	0061B	$5.00	04/04/1983	K
STS-6 LAUNCH, with a Shuttle pictorial machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on a Flag stamp. With multicolored STS-6/Challenger emblem printed cachet (unidentified) that lists the astronauts: Weitz, Bobko, Peterson & Musgrave. With additional black word text at bottom of emblem "Kennedy Space Center, FL". (Mission payload: Tracking & Data Relays Stellite [TDRS], first EVA [spacewalk]). IMAGE

STSEMB01	0071BQ	$6.00	06/18/1983	K
STS-7 LAUNCH, with a hand cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on a Flag stamp. With multicolored STS-7/Challenger emblem printed cachet (unidentified) that lists the astronauts: Crippen, Fabian, Hauck, Ride, Thagard. (Mission payload: two comsats, German Platform SPAS-1). (Sally Ride became first American woman to fly in space on this flight).

STSEMB01	0081B	$6.00	08/30/1983	K
STS-8 LAUNCH, with a NASA 25th anniversary slogan machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on a Flag stamp. With multicolored STS-8/Challenger emblem printed cachet (unidentified) that lists the astronauts: Truly, Brandenstein, Gardner, Bluford, Thornton. Note: Bluford became the first African-American in space. This was the first shuttle night launch and night landing. Mission payload: INSAT-1B, PDRS/PFTA, CFES[4], OIM,MLR[3], GAS[x7], biofeedback experiments: six rats flown in Animal Enclosure Module to observe animal reactions in space. Aboard this shuttle were five Get Away Special experiment packages including eight cans of postal covers). IMAGE

STSEMB01	0091A	$4.00	11/28/1983	K
STS-9 LAUNCH, with a NASA 25th Anniversary pictorial machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on a space stamp. With multicolored STS-9 Columbia emblem printed cachet by TMSC that lists the astronauts: Merbold, Parker, Young, Shaw, Garriott, Lichtenberg. With additional black word text around the emblem "STS-9, 1st European Astronaut, 1st Spacelab Flight. and two line word text at bottom of emblem: "Titusville - Moonport Stamp Club, Official Commemorative Cover". (Mission payload: First Spacelab Mission/SL-1).

STSEMB01	0141B	$4.00	11/08/1984	K
STS-51-A LAUNCH, with a Shuttle pictorial machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on a Flag stamp. With multicolored STS-51-A/Discovery emblem printed cachet (unidentified) that lists the astronauts: Allen, Fisher, Gardner, Hauck & Walker. With additional black word text around the emblem "Shuttle Mission 51-A, Discovery, (OV-103)" (Mission payload: Two comsats, two satellite retrievals/recoveries). IMAGE

STSEMB01	0155A	$4.00	01/27/1985	K
STS-51-C LANDING, with a hand cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on a Flag stamp. With multicolored STS-51-C/Discovery emblem printed cachet by TMSC, that lists the astronauts: Mattingly, Shriver, Onizuka, Buchli and Payton. With additional black word text around the emblem "STS-20: Discovery OV103, Mission 15 (51-C) DOD" and two line word text at bottom of the emblem: "Titusville - Moonport Stamp Club, Official Commemorative Cover". (Mission payload: First Military Department of Defense Mission).

STSEMB01	0285A	$3.00	03/18/1989	E
STS-29 LANDING, with a machine cancel of Edwards CA on a Flag stamp. With multicolored STS-29/Discovery emblem printed cachet by TMSC that lists the astronauts: Coats, Blaha, Bagian, Springer & Buchli. With additional black word text around the emblem "STS- 29 Discovery - OV-103, 8th Mission." and two line word text "Official Commemorative Cover, Titusville - Moonport Stamp Club". (Mission payload: Data Relay Satellite - TDRS-D, experiments).

STSEMB01	0291A	$4.00	05/04/1989	K
STS-30 LAUNCH, with a Shuttle pictorial machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on a "E" stamp showing Earth from outer space. With multicolored STS-30/Atlantis emblem printed cachet by TMSC, that lists the astronauts: Cleave, Lee, Thagard, Walker and Grabe. With additional black word text at top of the emblem "STS-30 Atlantis - OV-104, Magellan's Mission to Venus." and two line word text at bottom of emblem:"Official Commemorative Cover, Titusville-Moonport Stamp Club". (Mission payload: Venus Probe Magellan launched). IMAGE

STSEMB01	0711B	$4.00	09/07/1995	K
STS-69 LAUNCH, with a Shuttle pictorial machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on a Flag stamp. With multicolored STS-69/Endeavour emblem printed cachet (unidentified) that lists the astronauts: Walker, Cockrell, Voss, Gernhardt & Newman. With additional black word text at top of emblem "Space Shuttle STS-69/Endeavour". (Mission payload: Wake Shield Facility [2nd flight], SPARTAN, 30th Shuttle EVA [spacewalk]). IMAGE

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