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Commemorative cover with a pictorial cachet honoring the Apollo 11 astronauts’ New York City welcome by the United Nations following their release from quarantine, postmarked at the UN headquarters on August 13, 1969, signed in blue ballpoint by Neil Armstrong, and in black felt tip by Michael Collins. The upper Buzz Aldrin signature was accomplished in autopen. The reverse is marked in pencil, “From my personal collection, Ed Gibson, Skylab III (SL-4).” In fine condition. Accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity from Gibson.
After three weeks in confinement—in the Apollo spacecraft, on a USS Hornet trailer, and then in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory—the crew of Apollo 11 was finally allowed to leave quarantine on August 10, 1969. Two days later, they attended a luncheon at Houston’s Rice Hotel, and the next day flew to New York City, where the crew was honored with a massive ticker-tape parade before embarking on their famous 45-day 'Giant Leap' tour, which began with a stop in Mexico City on September 29, 1969.
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