Expedition 65 + Dragon Crew 2 FLOWN ISS cover - crewsigned

Expedition 65 / SpaceX Crew-2 Flown ISS Cover – Crew-Signed in Orbit – From the Jacques Bracke Collection

A highly desirable flown International Space Station cover from Expedition 65, hand-signed by the resident ISS crew together with the complete SpaceX Crew-2 crew.

Expedition 65 was commanded during its principal phase by Akihiko Hoshide and included Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Thomas Pesquet, Mark Vande Hei, Oleg Novitskiy, and Pyotr Dubrov. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission brought Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Akihiko Hoshide, and Thomas Pesquet to the station aboard Crew Dragon Endeavour in April 2021.

Crew-2 represented an important milestone in NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and was the first crewed mission to reuse both a Crew Dragon spacecraft and a Falcon 9 first stage. The four astronauts remained aboard the ISS for more than six months, conducting scientific research, station operations, and spacewalks during a particularly active period of Expedition 65.

The cover’s flown status and multiple onboard signatures make it an especially attractive artifact of the new era of commercial human spaceflight, linking the established International Space Station program with SpaceX’s rapidly developing Crew Dragon transportation system.

Provenance: From the personal collection of renowned astrophilatelist Jacques Bracke, adding distinguished collector provenance to this scarce modern space-philatelic artifact.

Mission: ISS Expedition 65 / SpaceX Crew-2
Crew represented: Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Akihiko Hoshide, Thomas Pesquet, Mark Vande Hei, Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov
Status: Flown aboard the International Space Station
Provenance: Personal collection of Jacques Bracke

A scarce flown and crew-signed artifact documenting the transition into the modern Commercial Crew era and one of the most internationally diverse ISS expeditions of its time.

Comes with official AIEP COA.