Cosmonautics day cover flown on board of Soyuz TM-18 to MIR space station with Valeriy Polyakov and after 438 days returned with him from station on Soyuz TM-20.Cancelled with 4 on board MIR handstamps 12 april, 1994 during celebration of `Cosmonautics Day` on board MIR.On reverse cancelled with large round handstamp of 15 MIR expedition and signed.Twice signed on front and hand notared `Board of station `MIR` 12.04.94`.
October 30, 2002 this cover was carried to space again.It flown with commander of Soyuz TMA-1 new generation space ship delivered to station for replacement of Soyuz TM-34 emergency vehicle.On board of space station commander Sergei Zalyotin hand notared cover with dates 30.10.02-10.11.02 and signed.And cancelled cover with two on board International Space Station handstamps. One of them is a small round handstamp of his flight reads :`Russia-Belgium, Soyuz TMA, Soyuz TM-34, MKS-ISS`.
This cover flown on 4 spaceships and two space stations.
This product was added to our catalog on Monday 16 December, 2002.