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Lot #417
Soyuz TM-14 Flown Mir Board Post Cover

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Description

Flown board post cover carried to the Mir Space Station during the Soyuz TM-14 mission, which launched on March 17, 1992, 8.25 x 11.75, featuring cachets and imagery related to NPO Energia corporation and the CNES Antares mission, signed by Russian cosmonauts Aleksandr Viktorenko, Aleksandr Kaleri, Anatoly Solovyev, and Sergei Avdeyev, and ESA astronaut Michel Tognini (France). The bottom certificate of authenticity NPO Energia attests that this envelope was delivered to and postmarked onboard Mir and later returned to Earth by the crew of the Soyuz TM-14 transportation vehicle. The cover is numbered 132 and is signed by Yuri Semenov, the General Director/General Constructor of NPO Energia. In fine condition. ESA astronaut Michel Tognini (FR) flew on the third Soviet-French mission, called 'Antares', in July 1992 on Soyuz TM-15 (he was a CNES astronaut at the time). Together with Anatoly Solovyev and Sergei Avdeyev, he spent 14 days on the Mir space station joining Alexander Viktorenko and Alexander Kaleri already on board.

Auction Info

  • Auction Title: Fine Autograph and Artifacts Featuring Major Figures of Science and Technology
  • Dates: #665 - Ended May 10, 2023