37 206
43
44
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(ASTRONAUTS—APOLLO 16.) First Day Cover, commemorating the deliberate
crashing of the Saturn’s third stage into the Moon to study seismic waves, Signed by each
member of the prime crew. Signed near the relevant portrait.With a “United States in
Space” postage stamp recto, cancelled on the date of the impact,April 19, 1972. Oblong
12mo.
Np, nd
[400/600]
JohnW. Young *Thomas K. Mattingly II * Charles M. Duke, Jr.
44
43
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(ASTRONAUTS.) Group Photograph Signed, by 10 of the first cosmonauts, an
assemblage of bust portraits with Lenin’s Tomb in the background [Moscow, circa 1964].
With an inscription in an unknown hand, in Russian: “To Comrade Nikolaev, Yurii
Vasil’evitch / With gratitude for your help.” Signed in the blank lower margin, below the
relevant portrait and above inscription. Lacking signature of Konstantin Feoktistov, whose
portrait is second from left. 2x12 inches (image), 5x12 inches overall; minor scattered
smudging to few signatures. (TFC)
Np, circa 1964
[1,000/2,000]
From left to right: Vladimir Komarov, Boris Yegorov, Valery Bykovsky, Pavel Popovich,
Gherman Titov, Andriyan Nikolayev,Valentina Tereshkova,Yuri Gagarin, Pavel Belyayev, and
Aleksei Leonov.
Lots 44-51 are from the files of Anatole Forostenko, Chief Russian
Language Instructor-Interpreter during the Apollo-SoyuzTest Project mission.