Scarce STS-107 Space Shuttle Columbia launch day/return cover, postmarked at Kennedy Space Center on the January 16, 2003 launch date and the tragic February 1, 2003 re-entry date, signed in ink by the complete crew of the doomed Orbiter—Rick Husband, Michael P. Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David M. Brown, Willie McCool, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon—plus NASA official Jim Ball. In fine condition. The seven brave astronauts of STS-107 were tragically killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia's in-flight break up during re-entry on February 1, 2003.
Ex. Swann Auction Galleries, March 18, 2006.
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