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Apollo-Soyuz, Archive, Including Presentation Piece Signed by Both Crews. Framed piece including portraits of each astronaut, the mission emblem, and signatures of Alexi Leonov, Valeri Kubasov, Thomas Stafford, Donald Slayton, and Vance Brand, inscribed, framed; color 8 x 10 in. American crew photo; individual portraits of Brand; Slayton; Leonov and Kubasov; Kubasov; a NASA color lithograph showing the spacecraft and two crews; NASA artist's concept illustration of the sequence of events for the joint mission; color photograph of the Soyuz spacecraft at the Paris air show; Astronaut Alan Bean training the two Soviet crewmen; Soyuz descent vehicle training mock-up; Docking Module; images of the Soyuz 16 at the launch pad in Kazakhstan; the launch itself; touchdown; and other images; including approximately twenty-four 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. positive slides related to the Apollo-Soyuz mission.
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Estimate $400-600
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Thomas Stafford, Donald Slayton, Kazakhstan, ParisJohn Dorfman
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