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posted 07-03-2001 08:38 PM               

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I personally find a much greater success rateusing a SASE. But as of late, the astro office is shutting down a lot of PR deals due to some serious budget cuts. I have some mail items there for quite a long time, and to astros who are excellent signers. It has been brought to my attention by a couple of astronauts, that there is a ton of mail to be distributed still. One of the reasons, is one of the girls in the office, Christine McDonough, had a death in the family that was quite traumatic, and she was off work for sometime.

Al

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From: Orting, WA
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posted 07-04-2001 08:51 AM               

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Hello
I just received two autographed pictures from Dr. Tom Jones. He inscribed both in a silver paint pen. The turn around was two weeks. I sent an SASE. He was at space day at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum on May 3rd and was not autographing that day but he told me if I sent the pictures to him at JSC he would be glad to sign them.

Charles

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posted 07-04-2001 03:34 PM               

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I always send an SASE when I write to current astronauts. When I first started collecting in 1999, I would say 75% of my request came back in JSC envelopes and 25% in my SASE. For those who did not use my SASE, they almost always sent it back so I was able to use the stamps again.

As of late, it has been reversed. 75% come in my SASE and 25% in the JSC envelope. I also heard that it was due to budget cuts, as Al said above. Also, probably because I now live in Australia, that has something to do with it.

Two days ago, I got a signed 3x5 card back from Scott Horowitz, in my SASE.

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