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eurospace
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posted 12-05-2008 05:03 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for eurospace   Click Here to Email eurospace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Date: December 13, 2008
Place: Cape Canaveral, FL 32920-9998;

Pictorial postmarker "Cape Canaveral 50th Anniversary Station: Bioflight 1"

Ill.: Squirrel monkey "Gordo", "Bioflight 1" rocket

Send your stamped covers to this address:
USPS Postmaster
Cape Canaveral 50th Anniversary Station
P.O. Box 9998
Cape Canaveral, FL 32920-9998
USA.

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Jürgen P Esders
Berlin, Germany

International Director (Europe), Space Unit
Vice President, Weltraum Philatelie e. V.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astroaddies

Robert Pearlman
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posted 12-13-2008 12:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Fifty years ago today...

Gordo, a.k.a. Old Reliable, with a handler.

Jupiter AM-13 launches Bioflight 1 on December 13, 1958.

Photographs courtesy the Air Force Space and Missile Museum in Cape Canaveral, Florida, where commemorative cacheted envelopes and postcards are available for sale with the Bioflight 1 pictorial cancellation.

eurospace
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posted 12-13-2008 03:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for eurospace   Click Here to Email eurospace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Any details about how to obtain cacheted covers through mail order?

Thanks,
Jürgen

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Jürgen P Esders
Berlin, Germany

International Director (Europe), Space Unit
Vice President, Weltraum Philatelie e. V.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astroaddies

Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 12-13-2008 04:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
According to museum's director, Emily Perry, you can place orders over the phone. If that is not an option, you might try e-mailing the museum for more information.

eurospace
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posted 12-16-2008 03:39 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for eurospace   Click Here to Email eurospace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
They have unpostmarked covers for $2, and covers with the special postmarker at $4. Postage is extra.

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Jürgen P Esders
Berlin, Germany

International Director (Europe), Space Unit
Vice President, Weltraum Philatelie e. V.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astroaddies

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