(ASTRONAUTS--APOLLO-SOYUZ.) Three items, each Signed by the entire prime crew, the cosmonauts in Cyrillic: Color Photograph * Commemorative NASA card * Sheet of stamps. The photograph, group portrait showing the entire prime crew in civilian attire while cosmonaut Leonov shakes the hand of mission interpreter Anatole Forostenko. Signed in the image near the relevant portrait. The card, showing the docking of the Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts. With two 10-cent postage stamps at upper left: "Apollo Soyuz 1975" and "Skylab," cancelled on the Apollo-Soyuz docking date: July 17, 1975. Signed in the image below the relevant portrait. The sheet, including 15 "Experimental Flight of the Soyuz and Apollo Ships" 16-kopeck postage stamps, each showing launch of the Soyuz-U rocket. Each 8x10 or 9x7½ inches; some fading to photograph (but signatures are bold), sheet is mint never hinged. Np, nd
Thomas P. Stafford ("Tom Stafford") • Vance D. Brand ("Vance Brand") • Deke Slayton ("DKSlayton") • Alexei Leonov ("Leonov") • Valery Kubasov ("VKubasov"). From the files of Anatole Forostenko, Chief Russian Language Instructor-Interpreter during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission.
