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[b]Space Cover #629: A launch on my birthday[/b] A very special birthday present for us serious space fans would be a manned launch on our birthday. I know of two space collectors who have had such special birthday presents, plus occurring on two very historic space launch anniversaries. Both have April 12 as their birthdays, which was the date of Vostok 1 with Yuri Gagarin becoming the 1st person in space and also exactly twenty years later, the launch of the 1st space shuttle, STS-1. Finally my time had come after waiting for 159 US manned space launches, as on my birthday, August 28, 2009, with the launch of STS-128, I got to finally celebrate my birthday on a day that a US space launch occurred. But barely, as the launch took place at 11:59 PM, with just one minute to spare! These two covers mark the STS-128 flight, with the top cover an STS-128 crew patch/crew emblem cachet cover and nicely canceled at KSC on August 28, 2009, and with the other cover also canceled on August 28, 2009 and autographed by the STS-128 crew.
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