10 years MIR - FLOWN MIR cover Soyuz TM-22 heatshield fragment What makes this cover particularly

What makes this cover particularly historic is its connection to the first cinematic film shot in space

The Soyuz TMA-11M crew returned safely to Earth on 14 May 2014

who was serving as commander of Expedition 2 when Soyuz TM-32 arrived

the crew of Endeavour repaired and released a communications satellite back into orbit

This cover was therefore signed during the opening weeks of the ISS mission that established Koch as one of the most accomplished astronauts of her generation—years before she made history again as an Artemis lunar explorer

10 years MIR - FLOWN MIR cover Soyuz TM-22 heatshield fragment What makes this cover particularly10th Anniversary of Mir Flown Cover Signed by the Soyuz TM 22 Crew, Including Thomas Reiter An exceptionally rare Mir flown commemorative cover marking the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Mir space station, hand signed by the complete Soyuz TM 22 crew and certified on the reverse by veteran cosmonaut Yuri Usachev. The cover bears the special black onboard date cancellation 20 February 1996exactly ten years after the Mir core module was launched