STS-101 FLOWN early ISS cover + letter Yuri Usachev Autographs cargo operations and preparations for

cargo operations and preparations for spacewalks

2025 — astronauts and cosmonauts from multiple nations routinely share a permanent laboratory in space

This exceptional cover brings together several major chapters of human spaceflight:

and removed during the restoration process at the Kansas Cosmosphere Space Center

while Wakata and Gerst each became prominent representatives of their national and international space programs

STS-101 FLOWN early ISS cover + letter Yuri Usachev Autographs cargo operations and preparations forSTS 101 One of the Earliest Letters Written Aboard the International Space Station Flown aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis and preserved in the Jacques Bracke collection An extraordinary piece of early International Space Station postal history: an original handwritten letter composed aboard the ISS by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Usachev during STS 101, enclosed in its matching flown cover and carried back to Earth aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. Addressed to