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[i]Jim Irwin was of Irish descent and, before his Moon flight, had covers printed that show a three-leaf cloverleaf – shamrock – and two astronauts in the Moon car next to the mission emblem. He took eight of these covers to the Moon without a stamp. They are listed as no. 15 in his CM-PPK S/N 1178. After splash-down, he gave two Shamrock Moon letters to a friend who franked them with Apollo 15 dual stamps and had them cancelled in Kennedy Space Center on 29.09.1971 – the day the three space travelers returned to the KSC again. Due to a misunderstanding between the two Moon walkers, their LM-PPKs remained in the lunar module Falcon, when it fell on the Moon surface after the Moon walkers changed to the command capsule Endeavour. Irwin's LM-PPK contained up to 42 more Shamrock covers.[/i]
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