posted 05-24-2009 02:53 AM               

• photos and other items signed by Moonwalker Jim Irwin, 1st Italian astronaut Franco Malerba, test pilot Pete Knight, and unflown cosmonauts Pyotr Kolodin and Rudolf Gulyayev;

• several rocket mail covers from Austria

• International Year of Astronomy covers and cards from Germany

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Jürgen P Esders
Berlin, Germany

International Director (Europe), Space Unit
Vice President, Weltraum Philatelie e. V.

posted 05-24-2009 06:23 AM               

• a signed photo of Peenemündian rocket pioneer Rudi Beichel;
  
• a signed photo of Guion Bluford, 1st African-American astronaut;
  
• a signed index card by the 1st Slovak in space, Ivan Bella.
  
• signed launch covers by STS-125 astronauts Good and McArthur, just back from the Cape;
  
• a cover signed by the STS-31 crew, the crew that originally launched the Hubble Space Telescope.