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T O P I C R E V I E WKenDavisAs a collector of signed Soviet and Russian material I've noticed a scarcity of signed Soyuz 10 material. Signed covers from the early Soyuz flights seems fairly common, with the obvious exception of Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11, but why Soyuz 10? All three crew members seemed to sign other material; Shatalov and Yeliseyev from earlier flights on Soyuz 4, 5 and 8, and Rukavishnikov from later flights on Soyuz 16 and 33.The mission did not achieve its objectives of delivering the first crew to Salyut 1 and so I don't believe a stamp was issued to commemorate the flight – hence no covers, but that wouldn't have stopped the crew signing other material. It is because the flight was deemed a failure and everyone, crew as well, would prefer not to remember or commemorate it in any way.Does anyone have a cover signed by the Soyuz 10 crew?Daniel LazeckyColleague, what exactly do you mean also? I have in my collection signatures on a postal envelope, a correspondence card and also on a photograph. I sent an e-mail.Apollo-SoyuzEach of the Soyuz 10 crew has autographed covers. I believe they respond through Star City.On edit: Correction Rukavishnikov is deceased. cosmos-walterAll Soyuz 10 cosmonauts freely signed. Crew signed covers might be scarcer than others missions since no stamp for this flight was issued. Thus no First Day Covers exist. Launch covers from Leninsk are scarce in spite of the facts that most are probably backdated. On 15.6.2021 Vladimir Shatalov passed away. RIPColinBurgessBack in the 1980s, when I was a far more ardent collector of space-related autographs, I sent a glossy B&W photo of the Soyuz-10 crew to each of them in turn, and eventually I had all three signatures, nicely inscribed and dated on it. I was recently mentioning to a friend that in those earlier days, most of the astronauts and cosmonauts had beautiful, full signatures - unlike today where you are lucky if you get an initial followed by a hastily-drawn squiggle; totally unreadable but still expensive if purchased.Mike DixonThe long lost art of decent handwriting, due in no small part to the arrival of the PC.
Signed covers from the early Soyuz flights seems fairly common, with the obvious exception of Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11, but why Soyuz 10? All three crew members seemed to sign other material; Shatalov and Yeliseyev from earlier flights on Soyuz 4, 5 and 8, and Rukavishnikov from later flights on Soyuz 16 and 33.
The mission did not achieve its objectives of delivering the first crew to Salyut 1 and so I don't believe a stamp was issued to commemorate the flight – hence no covers, but that wouldn't have stopped the crew signing other material. It is because the flight was deemed a failure and everyone, crew as well, would prefer not to remember or commemorate it in any way.
Does anyone have a cover signed by the Soyuz 10 crew?
On edit: Correction Rukavishnikov is deceased.
On 15.6.2021 Vladimir Shatalov passed away. RIP
I was recently mentioning to a friend that in those earlier days, most of the astronauts and cosmonauts had beautiful, full signatures - unlike today where you are lucky if you get an initial followed by a hastily-drawn squiggle; totally unreadable but still expensive if purchased.
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