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[b]Space Cover #85: Space City Cover Society Cachets[/b] With the recent [URL=http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum20/HTML/000649.html]passing of Harry Anderson[/URL], the man behind the Space City Cover Society (SCCS), I thought it would be appropriate to take a look back at a couple of his covers. The cover above was the first SCCS cover, postmarked January 27, 1967 in Houston, where Mission Control had been up for the Apollo 204 "plugs-out" test, when a fire in the cabin killed all three of the astronauts. Harry produced a limited number of these covers with green (shown), orange, and blue lettering. One of Harry's later SCCS creations is shown above, postmarked in Houston on April 14, 1970, when Mission Control began the process of bringing the stricken Apollo 13 home. It is notable that Harry had already printed the left hand portion of the cachet before the flight, since it shows Mattingly being on the crew, and was meant to commemorate Apollo 13's lunar liftoff that never happened. Harry got these postmarked on April 14 for the emergency return, then added the wording at the right. Now, in the middle of the cover is a characteristic of later SCCS's - the local post (or "lo-po") stamp (blue and gold) and cancel. An aged postal regulation allowed the addition of a private stamp to a cover for local delivery through a private local-post. Harry took advantage of this to add his own extra touch to these covers. Love 'em or hate 'em, the SCCS "lo-po's" are a collecting niche in themselves!
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