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fimych
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posted 12-30-2018 03:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fimych   Click Here to Email fimych     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Space Cover of the Week, Week 496 (December 30, 2018)

Space Cover #496: ATV-5 Georges Lemaitre

ATV-5 Georges Lemaitre launched July 30, 2014, was the fifth and the last ATV mission before program closure. AIRBUS prepared 400 colorful folders with 6 covers each, this time including Australian tracking station in Perth and Adelaide. As during previous missions, CTB with 400 covers was carried aboard ISS and recovered by Dragon CRS-5. In addition to AIRBUS flown covers, there were 400 ERNO cards, just as during previous missions.

ATV-5 cover range include stations of France, Russia, USA, and Germany with several known cachet makers like Lollini, Historiaphil and club covers.

Ross
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posted 12-31-2018 08:18 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ross   Click Here to Email Ross     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Just to complete the picture here is a scan of the two covers from Aussie tracking stations.

Antoni RIGO
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posted 12-31-2018 12:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Antoni RIGO   Click Here to Email Antoni RIGO     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
And still another document devoted to ATV-5.

This flown cover on ISS was returned onboard Soyuz TMA-13M on Nov 10, 2014.

French philatelic club CE SAFRAN with CE AIRBUS DAS produced this folder to pay homage to last ATV with this flown cover, signed by all 6 crewmembers.

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posted 12-31-2018 12:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fimych   Click Here to Email fimych     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
29 such cover-folios were flown to ISS by French club.

Antoni RIGO
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posted 12-31-2018 01:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Antoni RIGO   Click Here to Email Antoni RIGO     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Efim, thanks for additional info about these folders.

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