STS-101 FLOWN early ISS cover + letter Yuri Usachev Autographs and removed during the restoration

and removed during the restoration process at the Kansas Cosmosphere Space Center

This exceptional cover brings together several major chapters of human spaceflight:

who served at the time as Director General and General Designer of NPO Energia

the International Space Station was orbiting Earth with an international crew that included astronauts and cosmonauts from the United States

STS-101 FLOWN early ISS cover + letter Yuri Usachev Autographs and removed during the restorationSTS 101 One of the Earliest Letters Written Aboard the International Space Station Flown aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis and preserved in the Jacques Bracke collection An extraordinary piece of early International Space Station postal history: an original handwritten letter composed aboard the ISS by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Usachev during STS 101, enclosed in its matching flown cover and carried back to Earth aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. Addressed to