Sale 937 — 2007 Rarities of the World
Sale Date — Saturday, 16 June, 2007
Category — Space Flights
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Apollo 6 Signed Cover. Cover bearing 1c and 5c stamps tied by "Kennedy Space Center, Fl. Apr. 4, 1968" machine cancel and addressed to Germany, signed by 18 astronauts incl. Alan Shepard, Buzz Aldrin, and other notablesVERY FINE. AN ATTRACTIVE SPACE MEMORABILIA ITEM, CANCELLED ON LAUNCH DAY OF THE APOLLO 6 UNMANNED FLIGHT INTO SPACE.
The Apollo 6 mission was the second (and last) unmanned test flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle. The flight lasted just over ten hours. Events of the launch were overshadowed, because Martin Luther King,Jr. was assassinated on the same day.
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