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Auction Name: 2025 September 27 Space Exploration Showcase Auction
Lot Number: 71025
Shortcut to Lot: HA.com/33169*71025
Gemini 9A: Crew-Signed Launch Cover with NASA KSC Official Cachet [and] U.S.S. Wasp Recovery Cover. A pair of commemorative philatelic covers honoring the Gemini 9A mission. As follows.
Launch: A philatelic plain cover featuring a scarce NASA Kennedy Space Center stamped cachet, bearing a 5¢ "Register Vote" stamp with a machine pictorial KSC cancel on June 3, 1966. Signed "Tom Stafford" and "Gene Cernan". Unaddressed. Excellent.
Splashdown: A philatelic cover with a colorful "U.S. Navy Recovery Force" Beck cachet bearing a 5¢ "Magna Carta" stamp canceled on the actual recovery ship, the U.S.S. Wasp on June 6, 1966. Signed in ballpoint inks: "Gene Cernan/ Gemini IX" and "Tom Stafford". Unaddressed. A tiny stain at lower right corner, otherwise excellent.
NASA's Gemini 9A mission was significant for advancing astronaut extravehicular activity (EVA) techniques under realistic space conditions, despite the mission's challenging difficulties. It highlighted the physical demands and limitations of spacewalks, informing improvements in spacesuit design and EVA procedures critical for Apollo missions. Additionally, Gemini 9A tested rendezvous and docking capabilities, essential skills for lunar mission success and future space operations. From the Family Collection of Jacques Bracke.
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