STS-101 FLOWN early ISS cover + letter Yuri Usachev Autographs who served at the time

who served at the time as Director General and General Designer of NPO Energia

Crew-Signed • Four MIR Onboard Postmarks • Approximately 8 × 10 Inches

This exceptional cover brings together several major chapters of human spaceflight:

while Wakata and Gerst each became prominent representatives of their national and international space programs

Turkish astronaut Alper Gezeravcı and Swedish ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt

STS-101 FLOWN early ISS cover + letter Yuri Usachev Autographs who served at the timeSTS 101 One of the Earliest Letters Written Aboard the International Space Station Flown aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis and preserved in the Jacques Bracke collection An extraordinary piece of early International Space Station postal history: an original handwritten letter composed aboard the ISS by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Usachev during STS 101, enclosed in its matching flown cover and carried back to Earth aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. Addressed to