ASTP/ALT MFA medallion letter
A letter from G. B. Merrick, president, Space Systems Group, Rockwell International dated 28 July 1978 in part noting, " ... enclosed you will find some mementos of each of these missions in appreciation for a job well done."
What's not mentioned is what those mementos are: Manned Flight Awareness (MFA) medallions containing flown metal from space shuttle Enterprise, which the year prior finished the Approach and Landing Tests which validated the landing qualities of the shuttle; as well as from the Apollo and Soyuz crafts which participated in the first international docking of two spacecrafts.
What's even more unusual is that the certificates were not personalized, and the medallions not attached to the certificates but still bagged and stapled to the folder!
I bought this for less than what I sold my personalized Enterprise certificate with MFA medallion attached. Even though I have an ASTP photo showing three of the astronauts - Alexei Leonov, Deke Slayton and Tom Stafford autographed by all except Stafford - I really wanted the Enterprise one.
ASTP/ALT MFA medallion letter
A letter from G. B. Merrick, president, Space Systems Group, Rockwell International dated 28 July 1978 in part noting, " ... enclosed you will find some mementos of each of these missions in appreciation for a job well done."
What's not mentioned is what those mementos are: Manned Flight Awareness (MFA) medallions containing flown metal from space shuttle Enterprise, which the year prior finished the Approach and Landing Tests which validated the landing qualities of the shuttle; as well as from the Apollo and Soyuz crafts which participated in the first international docking of two spacecrafts.
What's even more unusual is that the certificates were not personalized, and the medallions not attached to the certificates but still bagged and stapled to the folder!
I bought this for less than what I sold my personalized Enterprise certificate with MFA medallion attached. Even though I have an ASTP photo showing three of the astronauts - Alexei Leonov, Deke Slayton and Tom Stafford autographed by all except Stafford - I really wanted the Enterprise one.