From flight archives of Soyuz TM-21 commander Vladimir Dezhurov flown cover cancelled with three onboard MIR handstamps and signed by all three flight members: commander Vladimir Dezhurov, flight engineer Genadiy Strekalov and American astronaut Norm Thagard. Thagard became a first American to be launched in a Russian Soyuz craft. After the Soyuz TM-21 was used to ferry MIR-18 crew (including Norman Thagard) into space, the Expedition-18 crew returned to Earth in June aboard STS-71
This product was added to our catalog on Friday 03 October, 2003.