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micropooz
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posted 06-23-2013 06:25 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for micropooz   Click Here to Email micropooz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Space Cover of the Week, Week 219 (June 23, 2013)

Space Cover #219: Fifty Years of Women in Space

Fifty years ago last week (Okay, for you cynics – better late than never! ), Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space. Launching on June 16, 1963 aboard Vostok 6, she spent three days in orbit on a tandem flight with Vostok 5, landing on June 19.

The cover above is a June 22. 1963, Moscow postmarked first-day-of-issue for USSR stamps Sc #2750 – 2752 that were issued to commemorate the tandem Vostok 5/6 flight. Tereshkova graciously signed the cover for me at an autograph show in New Jersey in 2005.

Who else has some neat Tereshkova/Vostok 6 covers? Maybe some of the "club cachets" for her flight (that's a whole story in itself!)? Or other neat covers that tie-in to women in space? Let's post 'em here! And if you need someone to host your cover image for posting, please send it to me in an email. Glad to do it!

stevedd841
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posted 06-23-2013 09:54 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for stevedd841   Click Here to Email stevedd841     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great space cover of the week for this week, Dennis. Thought it might be interesting to see another set of USSR stamps on cover issued for the successful tandem spaceflight of Valerie Bykovsky in Vostok 5, and Valentina Tereshkova in Vostok 6, and also, the first woman in space.

albatron
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posted 06-24-2013 07:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for albatron   Click Here to Email albatron     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What a wonderful pair of covers!

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