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MERCURY ASTRONAUT SIGNED GLENN FIRST DAY COVER
ISSUED ON THE DAY OF JOHN GLENN'S ORBITAL FLIGHT
Postal envelope having a First Day of Issue Cape Canaveral postmark dated February 20, 1962,

20 July 2016, 13:00 EDT
New York

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MERCURY ASTRONAUT SIGNED GLENN FIRST DAY COVER

ISSUED ON THE DAY OF JOHN GLENN'S ORBITAL FLIGHT
Postal envelope having a First Day of Issue Cape Canaveral postmark dated February 20, 1962, 4 x 6 ½ inches. The envelope features the 4 cent "U.S. Man in Space Project Mercury" stamp first issued on this date.

SIGNED by JOHN GLENN, ALAN SHEPARD, D. K. SLAYTON, SCOTT CARPENTER, GORDON COOPER, and WALLY SCHIRRA. Additionally SIGNED by BETTY GRISSOM representing her late husband Virgil "Gus" Grissom who was lost during the Apollo 1 launch pad fire of 1967.

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