(ASTRONAUTS--APOLLO-SOYUZ.) Two items, each Signed by the entire prime crew, the cosmonauts in Cyrillic: First Day Cover * Postcard. The FDC, commemorating the Soyuz missions. Signed in every available space. Additionally signed by cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov ("VShatalov"), vertically at left edge, and astronaut Gene Cernan, diagonally at upper right (over postage stamp). The cachet, reproduction of a painting by Ryakhovsky showing two cosmonauts inside a Soyuz spacecraft with the Salyut 3 space station visible in the window. 10-kopeck "Transport Ship Soyuz 14" postage stamp, featuring the faces of cosmonauts Popovich and Artyukhin, cancelled in Moscow on the date of issue: October 18, 1974. The postcard, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the first spacewalk (by Alexei Leonov on March 18, 1965). Signed at left edge and lower right. 4-kopeck "20th Anniversary" printed stamp cancelled in Star City on the anniversary: March 18, 1985. Each 4¼x6 inches. Np, nd
Thomas P. Stafford ("Tom Stafford") • Vance D. Brand ("V Brand" or "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.
