and the spacecraft ultimately returned to an independent Kazakhstan under the authority of the newly formed Russian space program

becoming the first person from outside the Soviet space program to conduct an extravehicular activity from the station and the first Western European to perform a spacewalk

The precisely dated onboard cancellation therefore places this cover within an active day of Expedition 59 operations and provides a direct postal record of its presence aboard the orbiting laboratory

catalogue or supporting paperwork when offered for sale

Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev — Soyuz 5 and Soyuz 4

Soyuz TMA-9 FLOWN ISS cover + letter - Soccer Worldcup 2006 patch and the spacecraft ultimately returnedFrom the 2006 FIFA World Cup to the International Space Station Soyuz TMA 9 Flown Private Mail Cover An extraordinary combination of football history, private correspondence and genuine space flown postal history: a cover mailed from Germany during the closing weekend of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, subsequently carried aboard Soyuz TMA 9 to the International Space Station and postmarked again in orbit. The cover received its first postal cancellation in