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Topic: Space Cover 309: Gemini 3 at 50
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micropooz Member Posts: 1751 From: Washington, DC, USA Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 03-22-2015 08:49 AM
Space Cover of the Week, Week 309 (March 22, 2015) Space Cover #309: Gemini 3 at 50Fifty years ago tomorrow, the first manned Gemini flight, Gemini 3, was launched. Gus Grissom and John Young performed a flawless three-orbit test flight of the new capsule. The cover above was machine cancelled at Cape Canaveral on the day of launch, March 23, 1965. It carries no cachet, just the hard-to-find autographs of the two crewmen. I have a favorite story about this cover. Years ago, Stevedd841 and I visited a picnic being held by the Metropolitan Airmail Postal Society (MAPS) near New York City. Most of the people there were hardcore airmail collectors, but there were a few of us space geeks along as well. Well, one of the guys was looking through a box of mostly airmail covers for sale, when he pulled this cover out, for sale at $75. He asked if the autographs looked good, and both Steve and I affirmed that. Meanwhile, I was salivating since I did not have a Gemini 3 crew autographed cover. Well, after staring at the cover for several minutes, the unnamed collector put... the... cover... back... in... the... box and moved on! So, with me being next in line to look through that box, well, the rest is history. Anyone else have any favorite Gemini 3 covers? Let's post them! I can host your cover image if you need, just email me the image. |
bobslittlebro Member Posts: 257 From: Douglasville, Ga U.S.A. Registered: Nov 2009
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posted 03-22-2015 09:42 AM
Great story and great cover Dennis. |
cvrlvr99 Member Posts: 208 From: Arlington, TX Registered: Aug 2014
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posted 03-23-2015 12:01 PM
GT-3 is still no. 1 on my want list. About 5 years back I flew up to a Regency-Superior auction with $2400 in order to win one that was up for auction. I estimated the value then at about $1500. It went for $3200. I was, of course, disappointed. But a few lots later, I got an Apollo 15 flown-to-the-moon cover for $2000 and I never would have tried to bid on it, had I not been there. |
Bob M Member Posts: 1893 From: Atlanta-area, GA USA Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 03-24-2015 02:03 PM
Certainly GT-3 crew signed covers are rare and rarely available. Dennis had great fortune in finding his for only $75 and while Ray missed his GT-3, more than made up for it with a bargain ($2,000!) Apollo 15 flown cover.I have a GT-3 USS Intrepid PRS cover with a vintage John Young autograph — probably applied to a blank cover and later serviced for GT-3. It was done by pioneer collector Donald Schultz and I bought it in 1989 for $50 from another pioneer collector, E.V. Smith. | |
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