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Soyuz TM-21 space-mail cover flown to the Mir space station, 7.25 x 4.5, commemorating the historic first docking of the Space Shuttle with Mir, bearing the colorful 1995 Space Shuttle-Mir emblem and signed by all 10 astronauts and cosmonauts of the STS-71 and Mir EO-18/19 crews: Robert L. Gibson, Charles J. Precourt, Ellen Baker, Bonnie Dunbar, Gregory J. Harbaugh, Anatoly Solovyev, Nikolai Budarin, Norman Thagard, Vladimir Dezhurov, and Gennady Strekalov. Presented to Nikolai Zelenshchikov, first vice president of the S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, whose name and title are printed prominently at the top. The cover bears an official Mir onboard postmark dated June 29, 1995, the day Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with Mir, as well as a Mir space station souvenir seal. The reverse bears a blue Apollo-Soyuz 20th anniversary handstamp. In fine condition. Accompanied by a 2004 certificate of authenticity signed by Russian space-mail specialist Igor G. Rodin.
