COLONEL C. GORDON FULLERTON - FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: PHILIP K. CHAPMAN, COLONEL DUANE E. GRAVELINE - HFSID 65520
Sale Price $215.00
Reg. $260.00
ASTRONAUTS: GORDON FULLERTON, PHILIP CHAPMAN and DUANE
GRAVELINE
Gordon Fullerton, Philip Chapman and Duane Graveline sign s first day
cover honoring the Pioneer unmanned space probe to Jupiter.
First Day Cover signed: "Gordon Fullerton", "Duane
Graveline/MD" and "Phil Chapman", 6½x3½. First Day Cover
honoring the Pioneer unmanned space probe to Jupiter, 10-cent stamp affixed,
postmarked Mountain View, California, February 28, 1975, FIRST DAY OF
ISSUE. A NASA astronaut from September 1969-November 1986, Charles Gordon
FULLERTON (1936-2013) logged 380 hours in space. He piloted the STS-3
space shuttle Columbia on its eight-day test mission (March 22-30,
1982) and was Commander of the STS-51F Spacelab 2 mission
(launched from Kennedy Space Center on July 29, 1985 and landing at Dryden on
August 6, 1985) in addition to serving on the support crew of Apollo 14,
15, 16 and 17. Australian-born Philip K. CHAPMAN
(1935-1975) was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in 1967. After
initial academic training and a 53-week course in flight training at Randolph
Air Force Base, Texas, he was involved in preparations for lunar missions,
serving as mission scientist for the Apollo 14 mission. Because of
the lack of space flight opportunities for scientist-astronauts, Dr. Chapman
left NASA in July 1972. He died in 1975. Flight surgeon Duane GRAVELINE
(b.1931) served in mission control during the Mercury and Gemini space
programs. He trained as an astronaut (1965), but chose to return to private
medical practice. He has written eleven novels: science fiction and medical
thrillers. Slightly soiled. Otherwise, fine condition.
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