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Topic: Soyuz T-6 cover leads to return of stolen docs
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42985 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-17-2018 08:40 PM
Employees of the Russian Post helped Jean-Loup Chrétien, France's first astronaut, to return documents stolen at the Paris airport, reports TASS. "The employees of the Russian Post's sorting center found personal documents and an old battered envelope with a French stamp in one of the boxes arriving to Russia from France," the Post's press service stated. It turned out that among the documents there was a passport belonging to the first Frenchman in space, Jean-Loup Chrétien, who had worked at the Salyut 7 space station under Vladimir Dzhanibekov. The employees have also discovered his Hero of the Soviet Union certificate, his pilot certificate and military identity card.The Memorial Museum of Space Exploration helped to get in touch with the astronaut through France's National Centre of Space Research. They discovered that the Frenchman's luggage was stolen at the Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. Chrétien kept the documents in a postal envelope from 1982 in honor of French-Russian cooperation in space, signed by the crew of the Soyuz T-6 spacecraft. Seemingly, on finding out whose belongings they had stolen, the thieves decided to return the documents and placed the envelope in the mailbox. The French post employees noticed that the text was in Russian and mailed the envelope to Moscow. "It seems that the documents ended up in Moscow because I am Russian at heart," Chrétien said while thanking the Russian Post employees. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo Member Posts: 3445 From: Toms River, NJ Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 04-18-2018 08:10 AM
Who keeps their passport in luggage and not on their person? |
fredtrav Member Posts: 1673 From: Birmingham AL Registered: Aug 2010
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posted 04-18-2018 10:56 AM
It may be possible that the passport was an old expired one, if the French work like the Americans. We have to get a new passport every ten years, and I have a couple of old ones.
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