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Gemini 5: Crew-Signed Launch Cover with NASA KSC Official Cachet [and] U.S.S. Lake Champlain...
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Description
Gemini 5: Crew-Signed Launch Cover with NASA KSC Official Cachet [and] U.S.S. Lake Champlain Recovery Cover. A pair of commemorative philatelic covers honoring the Gemini 5 mission. As follows.Launch: A philatelic plain cover featuring a scarce NASA Kennedy Space Center stamped cachet in blue, bearing a 5¢ "Churchill" stamp with a machine KSC cancelation on August 21, 1965. Signed "Gordon Cooper/ Gemini V - Cdr" and "Charles Conrad Jr./ Gemini V PLT.". Addressed. Excellent.
Splashdown: A philatelic cover with a stamped "Manned Flight U.S. Navy Recovery Force" cachet bearing a 5¢ "Salvation Army" stamp machine canceled on the actual recovery ship, the U.S.S. Lake Champlain on August 29, 1965. Signed: "Charles Conrad Jr." and "Gordon Cooper". Unaddressed. Excellent.
NASA's Gemini 5 mission was pivotal in proving that astronauts could endure extended spaceflights, lasting nearly eight days, long enough to reach the Moon and return safely. It demonstrated crucial advances in spacecraft life support, navigation, and fuel management, validating technologies needed for Apollo's lunar missions. Gemini 5 set a new endurance record that shifted the focus from short test flights to longer, mission-critical operations in space. From the Family Collection of Jacques Bracke.
Auction Info
2025 September 27 Space Exploration Showcase Auction #33169 (go to Auction Home page)
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