STS-101 FLOWN early ISS cover + letter Yuri Usachev Autographs 2025 — astronauts and cosmonauts

2025 — astronauts and cosmonauts from multiple nations routinely share a permanent laboratory in space

This exceptional cover brings together several major chapters of human spaceflight:

With its attractive official cachet

Turkish astronaut Alper Gezeravcı and Swedish ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt

who served at the time as Director General and General Designer of NPO Energia

STS-101 FLOWN early ISS cover + letter Yuri Usachev Autographs 2025 — astronauts and cosmonautsSTS 101 One of the Earliest Letters Written Aboard the International Space Station Flown aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis and preserved in the Jacques Bracke collection An extraordinary piece of early International Space Station postal history: an original handwritten letter composed aboard the ISS by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Usachev during STS 101, enclosed in its matching flown cover and carried back to Earth aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. Addressed to