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September 2016 February 2020 Issue Issue 9 16 SPA09SPA16 APOLLO 16 INSURANCE COVER John Young, Charlie Duke, and Ken Mattingly signed 1972 Apollo 16 Insurance cover with a 16th April launch day Kennedy Space Center postmark & certified on the reverse as from John Young’s personal collection, superb cover with great provenance JOHN YOUNG CHARLIE DUKE KEN MATTINGLY (Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, (Apollo 16) the youngest man to (Apollo 16, STS-4, STS-51) spent 21 days, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9) served a walk on the Moon 4 hours, and 34 minutes in space record 42 years with NASA SP(A16)01A £3500 £350 for 10 months Don’t forget, you can always use - our Flexible Payment service It’s simple and INTEREST FREE. Divide the total by up to 12 months. We then hold your order safely for you. It is extremely popular and flexible. Talk to any of our team to find a payment plan that suits you. FlexiPay is a great way of getting covers or collections that you want but can’t pay the full amount straight away. And it’s much better for you than putting it on your credit card and paying interest to the bank! We prefer you to pay by credit or debit card for this service. Our minimum monthly payment is £10. LOVE SPACE COVERS? We have a large stock of spaceFlexiPay covers, autographs and photographs; please contact us for a full list 01303 278137 Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] 1 Biography Apollo12 The fourth man to walk on the Moon, Bean made his first flight into space on Apollo 12. Bean won praise for Skylab 3 avoiding disaster shortly after launch when the shuttle was struck by lightning. When on the lunar surface he set up several experiments including the first nuclear power generator to be placed on the Moon. Bean also ALANcarried the first colour BEAN camera onto the surface but MISSIONS accidentally pointed it towards the sun, destroying the camera. His final space fight was on Skylab 3, which travelled to the Skylab space station in 1973. BC001A £175 Alan Bean signed 2001 Space Tourism cover BC001SP £300 Alan Bean signed 2001 Space Tourism cover, also signed by Ed Mitchell & Charlie Duke Biography Gemini 9A Eugene or ‘Gene’ Cernan was pilot of Gemini 9A Apollo 10 in 1966, Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 10 in 1969, and Commander of Apollo 17 in 1972. Gemini 9A Apollo 17 encountered several technical problems but the crew didEUGENE perform a space rendezvous CERNAN which developed the process for the Apollo 10 mission. During Apollo 17 Cernan and his crew covered over 22 miles in the MISSIONS Lunar Rover, collecting samples which shed light on the Moon’s history. During these sorties Cernan broke the lunar land speed record when he reached 11.2 mph. He is one of only three astronauts to travel to the Moon on two separate occasions and is currently the last man to have walked on the lunar surface. BC455S2 £150 Eugene Cernan signed 2012 Space Science cover SP(A17)01C £150 Gene Cernan signed 2002 30th Anniversary of Apollo 17 full colour cover 01303 278137 EMAIL: [email protected] Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF 2 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] SPA16 Biography Gemini 5 Conrad’s first mission was as pilot of Gemini 5 where Gemini 11 he set a new space endurance record of eight days. His first command was during the Gemini 11 mission Apollo 12 before commanding Apollo 12. This was the second mannedCHARLES mission to land on theCONRAD moon and he became Skylab 2 the third man to walk on the lunar surface. His last MISSIONS mission was as Commander of Skylab 2, the first crew to enter the Skylab Space Station. The team carried out vital repairs damage sustained during its launch, for which he received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. SP(G11)03C £200 Charles Conrad signed 1966 Gemini 11 cover with a 12th September launch day Cape Canaveral postmark, also signed by Richard Gordon Biography Mercury-Atlas 9 Cooper was one of the seven original Project Mercury astronauts, the first manned space program of the Gemini 5 United States. Cooper piloted Mercury-Atlas 9 which was the final Mercury spaceflight and also the last missionGORDON where a solo astronaut COOPER was launched into space. The craft orbited the Earth 22 times and he amusingly became the first astronaut to sleep MISSIONS in space. He later served as Command Pilot of the Gemini 5 mission which spent nearly 8 days in space, and in doing so broke the Soviet record for the duration of a space flight. SP(G05)04A £100 Gordon Cooper signed 1971 USA Decade of Space Achievements FDC Don’t forget, you can always use - our Flexible Payment service It’s simple and INTEREST FREE. Divide the total by up to 12 months. We then hold your order safely for you. It is extremely popular and flexible. Talk to any of our team to find a payment plan that suits you. FlexiPay is a great way of getting covers or collections that you want but can’t pay the full amount straight away. And it’s much better for you than putting it on your credit card and paying interest to the bank! We prefer you to pay by credit or debit card for this service. Our minimum monthly payment is £10.FlexiPay www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 Biography Apollo 7 Donn Eisele was the Command Module Pilot of Apollo 7, the first manned flight of the third generation of NASA spacecraft. The mission oversaw successful tests of all new spacecraft systems, and most memorably witnessed the first live televised coverage to be broadcast from space, MISSIONS whereDONN the crew demonstrated EISELE their daily routines and activities. Eisele logged 260 hours in space and he was later posthumously awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. SP(A07)08A £250 Donn Eisele signed 1971 USA Decade of Space Achievements FDC, also signed by Walt Cunningham Biography Apollo 17 Evans was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 17 mission, to date the last manned mission to the Moon. Evans stayed in orbit during the mission and recorded details of the lunar surface and later completedRON a oneEVANS hour EVA. He logged over 300 hours in space and holds the record for most time spent in lunar orbit, at 148 hours. He was heavily involved MISSIONS in the Space Shuttle Program and was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1973. SP(A17)02B £100 Ron Evans signed 1972 Apollo 17 Recovery Force cover with a 19th December landing day USS Ticonderoga postmark, one of the recovery ships SP(A17)02E £100 Ron Evans signed 1972 Apollo 17 cover with a 7th December launch day Kennedy Space Center postmark & Pearl Harbor Day cachet LOVE SPACE COVERS? We have a large stock of space covers, autographs and photographs; please contact us for a full list 01303 278137 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF 4 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] SPA16 Biography Apollo 16 Duke was the tenth, and to date the youngest man to walk on the Moon. He served as the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 16 and spent a total of 265 hours in space.CHARLIE Apollo 16 was the fifth DUKE manned lunar landing mission and the first to explore the Descartes Region, an area of lunar highlands and one of the MISSIONS most lunar terrains. Duke explored the surface in the Rover 2, logging over 20 hours of driving. The mission achieved its primary scientific goals which included the deployment of a cosmic ray detector and the establishment of a UV camera observatory. SP(A16)03H £100 Charlie Duke signed 30th Anniversary of Apollo 16 full colour cover Mercury-Atlas 6 Biography One of the original ‘Mercury Seven’ astronauts, Glenn STS-95 was the first American to orbit the Earth. During the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission he circled the globe three times during a flight lasting just under 5 hours, and upon his return became a national hero. Glenn is theJOHN oldest person to GLENNhave flown in space, aged 77, MISSIONS when he served as a Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Discovery STS-95 mission. This also made him the only astronaut to have flown in both the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. 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Our minimum monthly payment is £10.FlexiPay Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF 5 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] SPA16 Biography Gemini 11 Gordon’s first space flight was as pilot for Gemini 11 before being selected as the Command Module Pilot Apollo 12 for Apollo 12.