STS-71 – crewsigned Houston cover signed by all 10 astronauts + cosmonauts

Incredible STS-71 / Soyuz TM-21 Dual-Signed Houston Cover

Hand-signed by all 10 astronauts and cosmonauts of the first Shuttle–Mir docking mission

This exceptional cover commemorates one of the most historic milestones in human spaceflight: STS-71, the world’s first docking between a U.S. Space Shuttle and Russia’s Mir space station on June 29, 1995 — a moment that symbolized the end of Cold War rivalry in space and the beginning of true international cooperation.

The mission united two crews:

• Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-71): Robert Gibson, Charles Precourt, Ellen Baker, Gregory Harbaugh, Bonnie Dunbar

• Soyuz TM-21 / Mir Expedition 18: Anatoly Solovyev, Nikolai Budarin, Vladimir Dezhurov, Gennadi Strekalov, Norman Thagard

This Houston cover is hand-signed by all ten participants, making it an extraordinarily rare and historically complete artifact from one of the most significant joint missions ever flown.

Such a combination is now impossible to recreate, as cosmonaut Gennadi Strekalov has sadly passed away, permanently securing this piece as a finite and museum-worthy collectible.

A true centerpiece for any serious spaceflight collection — not just an autograph item, but a tangible witness to the moment humanity proved that cooperation in orbit could replace competition.