RUSTY SCHWEICKART APOLLO ASTRONAUT & GEORGI GRECHKO COSMONAUT SIGNED ZARELLI LOA

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The cover is signed by Rusty Schweickart and Georgi Grechko, It has been authenticated by Zarelli Space Authentication and will come with a letter of authenticity signed by Steve Zarelli.  This item will also include the Ultra Pro 5" x 7" protective cover seen in the photographs.  The signed postal cover is 4 1/2" x 6 1/4"  Inspired by his involvement in the Esalen Institute's Soviet-American Exchange Program, Rusty Schweickart established the Association of Space Explorers (ASE) in 1984–85 along with cosmonauts Alexei Leonov, Vitaly Sevastyanov, and Georgi Grechko; the organization is open to all people who have flown in orbit around the Earth.  It was during one of these Soviet-American exchange visits that this beautiful cover was signed.  It is very rare and a wonderful piece of space history.  FREE SHIPPING within the us and Global shipping available at buyers expense through Ebay.  I will pay for the shipping to the US global shipping center.
Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart (also Schweikart, born October 25, 1935, Neptune Township, New Jersey) is a former U.S. astronaut, research scientist, Air Force fighter pilot as well as a former business and government executive. Selected in 1963 for NASA's third astronaut group, he is best known as the Lunar Module pilot on the 1969 Apollo 9 mission, the first manned flight test of the Lunar Module, on which he performed the first in-space test of the Portable Life Support System used by the Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon. As backup commander of the first manned Skylab mission in 1973, he was responsible for developing the hardware and procedures used by the first crew to perform critical in-flight repairs of the Skylab station. After Skylab, he served for a time as Director of User Affairs in NASA's Office of Applications.
Georgy Grechko was born on May 25, 1931 in Leningrad. Grechko graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Mechanics with a doctorate in mathematics. He was a member of Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He went on to work at Sergei Korolev's design bureau and from there was selected for cosmonaut training for the Soviet Moon program.
Grechko made the first spacewalk in an Orlan space suit on 20 December 1977 during the Salyut 6 EO-1 mission.
He was twice awarded the medal of Hero of the Soviet Union.
He was on three space missions of the total duration 134 days 20 hours 32 minutes and 58 seconds, went once into the open space (for 1 hour 28 minutes). His last flight was in September, 1985, - he was the engineer of a short-term mission to the Salut-7 station.