Special issue of Energia Corporation cover for CERVANTES mission Russia-Spain-USA flight Soyuz TMA-3/ISS/Soyuz TMA-2 flown to the ISS on board Soyuz TMA-3 with Russia-USA Expedition-8 cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri, Michael Foale and Spanish cosmonaut Pedro Duque.
Cover spent a week on board station and returned on Soyuz TMA-2 with Expedition-7 cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko and Ed Lu, who carried back with them Spanish cosmonaut Duque.
On board of station cover was cancelled with 3 handstamps (ISS Russian section stamp and two dated stamps 20 October and 28 October, 2003) and signed by all five:Alexander Kaleri, Michael Foale, Yuri Malenchenko, Ed Lu and Pedro Duque.
Cover depicts official emblem of Cervantes mission and reads Space Mail, Russia-USA-Spain, Space expedition to the ISS, Board ISS.
Russian stamp comemorating 40 years of Valentina Tereshkova flight cancelled with onboard stamp as well.
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