Soyuz MS-26 – crewsigned backup crew launch cover Dave Scott The source of this heatshield

The source of this heatshield fragment was a heatshield plug encased into lucite as a presentation piece given to Gemini Program Office special assistant and longtime NASA employee

8x10 NASA onboard glossy photo handsigned by Ernst Messerschmid – taken during STS-61 A

These tests were essential to demonstrate that the spacecraft systems worked as intended—laying the groundwork for Apollo 10’s dress rehearsal in lunar orbit and Apollo 11’s first Moon landing

Georgi Beregowoy hand signed Russian FDC with a handdrawn cachet by space artist Detlev van Ravenswaay

Unfortunately (for collectors) these represent the first orbital flights of a Soviet and an American astronaut in history

Soyuz MS-26 – crewsigned backup crew launch cover Dave Scott The source of this heatshieldRARE : Soyuz MS 26 backup crew hand signed launch cover by the crew Jonny Kim, Sergey Ryschikov and Alexey Subritzki.