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[b]Space Cover #428: Apollo 15 Insurance Cover[/b] A "Wings" Insurance cover came up in a NovaSpace sale a couple of years ago and I immediately bought it. Not only was it an Insurance Cover, but it was the first, and only time that I ever saw one that was cancelled aboard the prime recovery ship (PRS), the USS Okinawa. Additionally it bore a pair of the Decade Achievement stamps that were from the 800 mailed to Al Worden in care of the PRS. At the time I wondered how it had gotten aboard the ship and not cancelled at KSC with all of the others. Was this an unreported flown to the moon cover? Who took it on board the ship if not? How did it get into the hands of General McDivitt? To try to get some answers I sent a photocopy of the cover to General McDivitt. He responded with a short note at the bottom of the photocopy sheet with the following handwritten text. The means by which the cover got to the PRS is still a mystery, but I did learn how and why Gen. McDivitt received this highly unusual use of a "Wings" Insurance cover. And subsequently I find this cover to be worthy of being shown singly on a page within my "How We Got Men to the Moon", eight-frame exhibit. Have any of you readers own or ever seen a cover like this? I'd like to determine just how unique it might be.
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