Postal envelope with an Orbit Covers cachet featuring the Gemini 7 crew and related mission events. Cape Canaveral postmark dated December 4, 1965, the launch date of Gemini 7. The envelope is displayed between paragraphs of a Typed Letter Signed by THOMAS STAFFORD. THOMAS P. STAFFORD'S signed provenance letter reads in part: "The Gemini 7 envelope displayed below is from my personal collection.... Wally and I lifted off from Pad 19 on December 15 and rendezvous with Gemini 7 later that afternoon. The Gemini 7 / 6 flight as it was then called proved that orbital rendezvous was indeed possible. That was a critical step to enable the Apollo Program to accomplish President John F. Kennedy's goal of making the first manned lunar landing before the end of the 1960s...."
Postal envelope with an Orbit Covers cachet featuring the Gemini 7 crew and related mission events. Cape Canaveral postmark dated December 4, 1965, the launch date of Gemini 7. The envelope is displayed between paragraphs of a Typed Letter Signed by THOMAS STAFFORD. THOMAS P. STAFFORD'S signed provenance letter reads in part: "The Gemini 7 envelope displayed below is from my personal collection.... Wally and I lifted off from Pad 19 on December 15 and rendezvous with Gemini 7 later that afternoon. The Gemini 7 / 6 flight as it was then called proved that orbital rendezvous was indeed possible. That was a critical step to enable the Apollo Program to accomplish President John F. Kennedy's goal of making the first manned lunar landing before the end of the 1960s...."
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