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STAR CHART CARRIED AND USED ON ASTP.
"CSM Deorbit Star Chart, July 15, 1975 Launch,"

25 March 2013, 13:00 EDT
New York

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STAR CHART CARRIED AND USED ON ASTP.

"CSM Deorbit Star Chart, July 15, 1975 Launch," photographically printed on plastic, 8 x 16 inches, with stars and major constellations, and with the Earth, Moon, Sun, and planets colored by hand. The recto with two polar star charts. Framed.

Showing the exact celestial positions of key stars for the CSM navigational equipment realignment, prior to deorbit. With a typed letter SIGNED by TOM STAFFORD stating in part that "this black background Star Chart was one of the ones that flew with the flight crew equipment packets aboard the Apollo 18 Command Module of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project July 15-24, 1975 ... During the mission we referred to these charts."

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