the reverse bears a personal certification by cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri

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while Gerst progressed from flight engineer during Expedition 56 to station commander during Expedition 57

Flown to both Salyut 7 and Mir

this piece preserves a direct private exchange between an active cosmonaut aboard the ISS and a leading specialist collector on Earth

Soyuz TM-21 – crewsigned launch cover - first Shuttle/MIR docking Ken Mattingly the reverse bears a personalHistoric Soyuz TM 21 crew hand signed launch cover Baikonur by Vladimir Dezhurov, Gennadi Strekalov and Norman Thagard from the US. First American onboard a Russian spacecraft ! Excellent condition.