Yuri Gagarin and Cosmonautics Day commemorative covers flown on board Salyut-7 station with main expedition crew Kizim, Solovyov, Atkov and visiting USSR-India team Soyuz T-11 Strekalov, Malyshev, Sharma.Covers signed by all six cosmonauts of these teams and cancelled with 2 Soviet and Indian on board Salyut-7 station handstamps.After flight covers were presented to cosmonaut Lazarev (notared on reverse).
Soyuz T-10 team set a new space endurance record 236 days aboard Salyut-7.Medical studies supervised by cardiologist Oleg Akov. Kizim and Solovyov made 6 EVA`s during this flight.Crew was visited by 5 Progress tankers, logged more than 3400 orbits and traveled almost 100 million miles.
Visiting them Intercosmos team USSR-India spent on board a week and returned in the Soyuz T-10 craft.
This product was added to our catalog on Friday 13 December, 2002.
