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[b]Space Cover #248: Apollo 8 TWA Cachet[/b] For our recent tribute to Apollo 8’s 45th anniversary, let me cap it off with a contractor cover from Trans-World Airlines (TWA) for the launch of Apollo 8. This cover was machine postmarked at the Kennedy Space Center on the Apollo 8 launch date, December 21, 1968. The cachet features some detailed artwork of the crew, the Saturn 5 launch, and of an Apollo CSM and LM (unfortunately the LM part was not accurate for the Apollo 8 mission) in orbit around the moon. TWA was the "base operations" contractor for the Kennedy Space Center in this era and sent these covers to their employees as souvenirs with the letter shown below: Additionally, TWA produced another cacheted cover for their employees for the Apollo 11 flight. Has anyone seen TWA cacheted covers for any flights other than Apollo 8 and Apollo 11?
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