This cover’s journey can be summarized as follows:

Boris Volynov — Soyuz 5

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 previous batch of patches #1-#25 has been completely sold

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

Soyuz TMA-9 FLOWN ISS cover + letter - Soccer Worldcup 2006 patch This cover’s journey can beFrom 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