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posted 02-07-2016 04:23 AM               

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It's a souvenir booklet for the Apollo-Soyuz spaceflight mission, which by the way, was first made available on the Florida Space Coast for purchase during the joint U.S. -Russia hookup in space.

The mission profile booklets were produced and printed up here locally, and in most cases, were made available for purchase at various public Apollo launch viewing sites on July 15, 1975, but were also sold throughout the month at other area space shops and retail outlets.

Their estimate value, I would say, would be a few dollars apiece and maybe in some markets could reach $10 or more. I've got a few of them myself with a couple having been signed by the U.S. ASTP crew while others had been postmarked on launch day here at the Cape/KSC.

Nothing is extremely rare about them, however, the magazine-type booklets were mainly produced as an "eye witness launch day" souvenir for those liftoff-viewing spectators. That part or description of them is true, though.

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posted 02-07-2016 01:11 PM            

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I also have one of these that I bought when I was there for ASTP all those years ago. Don't remember where I bought it, but probably at the KSC Visitors' Center.

For $1500, I could be induced to put mine up on eBay too, but I'll watch this one to see if a bidding war breaks out!

I always admired Bruce McCandless's Skylab launch photo that's included in this publication for some reason (see the eBay listing photos). I was there for that launch too and that photo is probably the best shot I've seen of the last Saturn V launch.