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Topic: Longest astronaut autograph return time
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Apollo-Soyuz Member Posts: 1205 From: Shady Side, Md Registered: Sep 2004
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posted 01-26-2018 10:13 AM
What was the longest somebody waited for an autograph request to return through the mail? I just received an autograph return from STS-40 Pilot and STS-59 Commander Sid Gutierrez that I sent on Sept. 8, 1994 after 23 years, 139 days. Covers were signed as requested. Can anybody top this? |
jemmy Member Posts: 176 From: Registered: Dec 2010
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posted 01-26-2018 03:22 PM
I doubt it very much that anybody can beat that time... amazing. I would love to hear the explanation. |
randy Member Posts: 2176 From: West Jordan, Utah USA Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 01-26-2018 04:18 PM
Me too. |
Wehaveliftoff Member Posts: 2343 From: Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 01-26-2018 04:52 PM
It's a miracle both of you are still alive and have a residence that long. Congratulations. Patience is a virtue. |
Apollo-Soyuz Member Posts: 1205 From: Shady Side, Md Registered: Sep 2004
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posted 01-26-2018 06:32 PM
I may add when I sent these requests I was still living at home and my mother still lives there so it was delivered to her address. After all the years, I had enough postage on the return envelopes. I also put the date of the request on the back of the return envelope. |
jtheoret Member Posts: 344 From: Albuquerque, NM USA Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 01-27-2018 02:41 AM
Congratulations. The longest I ever waited was 7 years (though I can't recall from whom). 23 years is a record I don't want to break. |
india-mike Member Posts: 76 From: Linnich, Northrine Westfalia, Germany Registered: Jan 2012
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posted 01-27-2018 03:41 AM
Congratulations. And you give new hope to everyone in this community who still waits for requests to be answered. 1994? Wasn't it the year when the 17th Winter Olympic Games opened in Lillehammer?And you can't say that Sid Gutierrez isn't reliable. |
eurospace Member Posts: 2610 From: Brussels, Belgium Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 01-27-2018 01:34 PM
My longest wait thus far was with Hank Hartsfield and for 12 years. Hartsfield was known as a good and quick signer, so that request was certainly an exception and disappeared at some point. Hartsfield must have found it when cleaning his office prior to retirement.But maybe I can still beat the record. I am having a Gutierrez request out that was sent in the early 90s, but never came back. Wait and see... |
Dirk Member Posts: 933 From: Belgium Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 01-27-2018 03:57 PM
Not exactly the same but a nice story:In January 1975, I wrote a letter to the Dutch space specialist Chriet Titulaer, asking him several questions. He returned a letter saying he ha had no time at that moment to answer my questions. So in March 2005 I sended a letter, with copy of his letter of 1975, asking him if he had time now... and he answered all my questions I sended 30 years earlier. |
dss65 Member Posts: 1156 From: Sandpoint, ID, USA Registered: Mar 2003
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posted 01-27-2018 06:51 PM
That's a very cool story, Dirk. |
RichieB16 Member Posts: 552 From: Oregon Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 01-28-2018 04:18 PM
That's amazing.Beats my record by a long shot. My record is 11 years from Alexei Leonov. |
jtheoret Member Posts: 344 From: Albuquerque, NM USA Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 07-11-2018 12:36 AM
I really don't know if I can beat the Sid Gutierrez wait with my own record because I don't really know when I sent it, but my son just delivered a Sid Gutierrez litho delivered to his mom's house that I have not lived at since at least the summer of 2000. Not sure when I sent the request, but it was at least 17 years. My question is, where does he store all these autograph requests from decades ago? Don't give up hope! Sid is spending 2018 answering mail!Update: In looking at my return envelope again, I crossed out an address I stopped using in 1997 and wrote the address it was delivered to, where I lived from 1997 through 2000. It's a pretty safe bet I sent the request in 1997 (so 21 years is definitely my longest wait — well 23 years if you count waiting for the Cowboys to win another Super Bowl...). |