Intercosmos Council and Cosmonautics Day covers flown on board first manned test flight of an improved Soyuz T-2 with cosmonauts Yuri Malyshev and Vladimir Aksyonov.The new guidance system failed on approach to Salyut-6. althought the cosmonauts were able to dock with station manually.They spent three days with Popov and Ryumin (main crew Soyuz-35 on Salyut-6) before returning to Earth.
Covers autographed by cosmonauts of both teams and cancelled with round Space mail Soyuz/Salyut handstamp, pentagonal Salyut-6 on board handstamp and Intercosmos Council cover also cancelled in addition with expedition-4 Popov-Ryumin handstamp.
Covers given to cosmonaut Lazarev after mission (notared `To Lazarev`).
This product was added to our catalog on Friday 13 December, 2002.
