From 1957 up to now, MANNED SPACE FLIGHT of the USA and USSR. Interesting and comprehensive collection containing about 553 space covers (launch covers, flown covers, landing/recovery covers), many of them signed by astronauts and cosmonauts. And some signed photos of astronauts inclusive. There are many of high-grade items such as: APOLLO-15-Orbit-Cover taken to the moon orbit (signed and certificated by Scott, Worden and Irwin), APOLLO-8-Orbit-Cover signed by F. Bormann (including handwritten data for launch, moon orbit and splashdown), signed Portrait of Michael Collins, Recovery cover »USS Lake Champlain (CVS-39)« for the first U.S. manned space flight May 5 1961 (certificated by Swanson), Launch cover MA-5 signed by all MERCURY astronauts (incl. Slayton) and many other early MERCURY covers, Launch cover First Space Shuttle mission Apr 12 1981, many high-class flown covers from the USSR space stations SALYUT and MIR and from the SOYUZ spacecraft, signed by all cosmonauts (many of this covers originate from the Lasarew collection), and many great flown covers from the ISS, also available some covers of Chinese space flight, notably a signed commemorative flown cover SHENZHOU VI. In all the collection contains items for the following spacecrafts and missions: Sputnik, Vostok, Voskhod, Salyut and Soyuz, Apollo-Soyuz, Mir, Mercury, Gemini, Apollo 1 to Apollo 17, Skylab, Space Shuttle, ISS and China Shenzhou. Stored in 9 albums.