Gene Cernan's flown sterling silver Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) Robbins medal, approximately 1.25″ in diameter, with a raised mission insignia design on the face, and the reverse featuring raised text, "First Joint U.S.—U.S.S.R. Space Flight," and engraved with the launch and entry dates, July 15, 1975 and July 24, 1975. Serial numbered “67F” on the edge. Condition is mint state. Accompanied by its original matching case, and by a letter of authenticity signed by Cernan, who states that he received the medal “shortly after the successful completion of the mission from the Astronaut Flight Office and it has been in a part of my personal collection since then.”
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