A LETTER FROM THE MOON 16.5 x 9.2 cm Comes with a letter signed by all three Apollo 15 Astronauts, stating the authenticity of this letter. Provenance: Swiss private collection Imagine getting mail directly from the moon... The Apollo 15 postal covers incident was a 1972 NASA scandal, involving the three astronauts David Scott, Alfred Worden, and James Irwin. They carried about 400 unauthorized postal covers into space and to the Moons surface on the Lunar Module Falcon. The three astronauts and an acquaintance, Horst Eiermann, had agreed to have the covers made and taken into space. Each astronaut was to receive about $7,000 (equivalent to $45,000 in 2022). Scott arranged to have the covers postmarked on the morning of the Apollo 15 launch on July 26, 1971. They were packaged for space and brought to him as he prepared for liftoff he brought them aboard in a pocket of his space suit. They were not included on the list of the personal items he was taking into space. The covers spent July 30 to August 2 on the Moon inside the Lunar Module Falcon. On August 7, the date of splashdown, the covers were postmarked again on the recovery carrier USS Okinawa. The crew of Apollo 15 agreed to take payments for carrying these letters to the moon. This did not sit well with NASA officials who thought this behaviour highly immoral. And though they returned the money, they were reprimanded by NASA. Amid much press coverage of the incident, the astronauts were called before a closed session of a Senate committee and never flew in space again. The presented here Moon Letter is one of these famous letters. Its in a very good condition with no marks or stains and shows clean edges. EIN BRIEF VOM MOND 16,5 x 9,2 cm Wird mit einem von allen drei Apollo 15-Astronauten unterzeichneten Brief geliefert, der die Echtheit dieses Briefes best?tigt. Der Apollo-15-Briefumschlag Vorfall war ein NASA-Skandal aus dem Jahr 1972, in welchen die Astronauten von Apollo 15 verwickelt waren. Sie brachten etwa 400 nicht genehmigte Briefumschl?ge mit ins All und auf die Mondoberfl?che. Einige der Umschl?ge wurden danach von dem westdeutschen Briefmarkenh?ndler Hermann Sieger zu hohen Preisen verkauft und sind als "Sieger-Briefe" bekannt. Die Besatzung von Apollo 15, David Scott, Alfred Worden und James Irwin, willigte ein, Zahlungen für das Mitführen der Umschl?ge anzunehmen obwohl sie das Geld zurückgaben, wurden sie von der NASA gerügt. Nachdem die Presse viel über den Vorfall berichtet hatte, wurden die Astronauten zu einer geschlossenen Sitzung eines Senatsausschusses vorgeladen und durften daraufhin nie wieder ins All fliegen. Die drei Astronauten und ein Bekannter, Horst Eiermann, hatten zugestimmt, die Briefumschl?ge anfertigen zu lassen und ins All zu bringen. Jeder Astronaut sollte etwa 7.000 Dollar erhalten (das entspricht 45.000 Dollar im Jahr 2022). Scott sorgte dafür, dass die Umschl?ge am Morgen des Starts von Apollo 15 am 26. Juli 1971 abgestempelt wurden. Sie wurden weltraumtauglich verpackt und ihm bei den Startvorbereitungen in einer Tasche seines Raumanzugs an Bord gebracht. Sie standen nicht auf der Liste der pers?nlichen Gegenst?nde, die er mit ins All nahm. Die Bezüge verbrachten den 30. Juli bis 2. August auf dem Mond in der Falcon. Am 7. August, dem Tag der Wasserlandung, wurden die Umschl?ge auf dem Flugzeugtr?ger USS Okinawa erneut abgestempelt. Einhundert wurden an Eiermann geschickt (und an Sieger weitergegeben) die restlichen Briefe wurden unter den Astronauten aufgeteilt. Der hier vorgestellte Mondbrief ist einer dieser berühmten Briefe. Er ist in einem sehr guten Zustand, hat keine Flecken und saubere Kanten.
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