Lot 478
ASTP, 1975, FLOWN Mylar Foil (30x.25mm) This small triangula rpiece of foil is attached to a 1975 USS New Orleans (Prime) recovery ship cachet cover with a July 24 San Francisco pictorial cds. In addition to the handstamped ship cachet, there is a rectangular boxed cachet that reads: "The affixed….is an actual piece of the US Apollo-Soyuz Command Module #111 Spacecraft flown in space July 15-25, 1975. It was taken from the CM crew compartment heat shield after splash-down and is a very thin pressure-sensitive Kapton polyimide tape for the CM's thermal protection subsystem." A Carston Fuchs German COA is included. Unusual, scarce and attractive.
Estimated Value $250 - 350.
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