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Topic: Space Cover 110: Alan Shepard, MR-3 Launch Covers
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Bob M
Member Posts: 1744
From: Atlanta-area, GA USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 05-21-2011 05:42 PM
   
Space Cover of the Week, Week 110 (May 22, 2011)Boy, What a Ride!   While it has been said that only 44 actual philatelic covers were produced for the recovery of Freedom 7 by the USS Lake Champlain, a significantly larger number of covers were produced for the launch of Shepard on MR-3/Freedom 7. As Tom mentioned, George Goldey was the main producer of covers for the launch of MR-3 and shown here (2nd cover down) is a handsome Goldeycraft cacheted cover for the MR-3 launch (with less than perfect spelling).But Goldey was not the only creator of excellent cacheted covers for MR-3. The first cover (with Shepard's famous words: "Boy, what a ride!") and the 3rd cover, are popular SpaceCraft covers by Carl Swanson. The bottom cover marks the tenth anniversary of Freedom 7 and has an official NASA/KSC rubber stamp cachet applied by the KSC post office. Through the years, I was fortunate to have Alan Shepard autograph these four covers, with the anniversary cover signed back in 1974 and the others in 1987 and 1989. |
bobslittlebro
Member Posts: 179
From: Douglasville, Ga U.S.A.
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted 05-21-2011 06:14 PM
Boy what a bunch of great covers! |
Bob M
Member Posts: 1744
From: Atlanta-area, GA USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 05-21-2011 07:02 PM
Thanks, Tim. Here's another and it's my last Shepard signed MR-3 launch cover and is a nice Goldeycraft red cacheted MR-3 launch cover. These MR-3 covers were expensive even back then and I paid $75 for the Swanson Spacecraft cover (3rd one down) from Ed and Eddie Bizub's E&E Space Covers.  |
stevedd841
Member Posts: 292
From: Millersville, Maryland
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted 05-22-2011 05:46 AM
Boy, what great covers for "the Icy Commander," Alan Shepard! Here is a favorite of mine from Shepard, signed by him in 1987 on a Sarzin commemorative folder.  Thanks for continuing the conversation about Alan Shepard commemorating the 50th anniversary of America's first astronaut space flight. Steve Durst, SU 4379 |
bobslittlebro
Member Posts: 179
From: Douglasville, Ga U.S.A.
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted 05-22-2011 06:16 AM
Nice piece Steve! | |
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