Launch of Apollo 8 from C.C on 12/21/1968 by Comet covers with 4 autopen sig.

Description: Launch of Apollo 8 from C.C on 12/21/1968 by Comet Covers with 4 autopen signatures This cover commemorates the Apollo 8 Space mission AS-502 launched on 12/21/1968 from Cape Canaveral, FL. The space capsule, contained 3 astronauts: James Lovell, Frank Borman and William Anders. Their mission was to fly to the Moon, make 10 full orbits, obtain possible landing sites and gather necessary information about the Moon's surface and return to Earth. Returning to Earth, they splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on 12/27/1968 where they were picked up by Helos from the USS Yorktown (CVS-10) This cover was signed by: Frank Borman, Astronaut & Commander of the mission, who recently died on 11/10/2016 in his home town, Billingsly, MT at age 95 ; William A. Anders Lunar Module Pilot, who died on 06/07/2024 near the San Juan Islands in a crash of his Beech craft T--34 Mentor aircraft; Christopher Columbus Kraft, Jr, Mission Control Director - NASA, Kraft joined the NASA Space Task Group in November 1958 as NASA’s first flight director, with responsibilities that immersed him in mission procedures and challenging operational issues. He personally invented the mission planning and control processes required for crewed space missions, in areas as diverse as go/no-go decisions, space-to-ground communications, space tracking, real-time problem solving and crew recovery. During the Apollo program, Kraft became the Director of Flight Operations at MSC, responsible for overall human spaceflight mission planning, training and execution. His leadership in this critical area continued through the Apollo 12 mission in 1969, at which time he became deputy director of the Center. He served as the center director from January 1972 until his retirement in August 1982, playing a vital role in the success of the final Apollo missions, the Skylab crewed space station, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project and the first flights of the space shuttle. Kraft died on July 22, 2019, in Houston, aged 95, two days after the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moonwalks. James Lovell, Astronaut & Command Module Pilot, the only remaining crew member of Apollo 8. This would be a FANTASTIC crew cover if these 4 signatures would be real !!!!! Unfortunately these signatures are either secretarial signed or out and out fakes according to my trusted authenticator Steve Zarelli.If real, this cover would be in the $1500-$2000 range.You really can't burn a cover like this but you can put it in your collection for $150, because you realize that you will not buy a one like it and the cover presents itself well and really is a cool cover !!! - Buy it Now, I know I would!

Price: 150 USD

Location: Laceyville, Pennsylvania

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