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拍品 1891 - S17 Out of This World - Dienstag, 28. Juni 2022, 04.00 PM

A LETTER FROM THE MOON

16.5 x 9.2 cm
Comes with a letter signed by all three Apollo 15 Astronauts, stating the authenticity of this letter.

Provenance: Swiss private collection

Imagine getting mail directly from the moon...
The Apollo 15 postal covers incident was a 1972 NASA scandal, involving the three astronauts David Scott, Alfred Worden, and James Irwin. They carried about 400 unauthorized postal covers into space and to the Moon's surface on the Lunar Module Falcon.
The three astronauts and an acquaintance, Horst Eiermann, had agreed to have the covers made and taken into space. Each astronaut was to receive about $7,000 (equivalent to $45,000 in 2022). Scott arranged to have the covers postmarked on the morning of the Apollo 15 launch on July 26, 1971. They were packaged for space and brought to him as he prepared for liftoff; he brought them aboard in a pocket of his space suit. They were not included on the list of the personal items he was taking into space. The covers spent July 30 to August 2 on the Moon inside the Lunar Module Falcon.
On August 7, the date of splashdown, the covers were postmarked again on the recovery carrier USS Okinawa.

The crew of Apollo 15 agreed to take payments for carrying these letters to the moon. This did not sit well with NASA officials who thought this behaviour highly immoral. And though they returned the money, they were reprimanded by NASA. Amid much press coverage of the incident, the astronauts were called before a closed session of a Senate committee and never flew in space again.

The presented here Moon Letter is one of these famous letters. Its in a very good condition with no marks or stains and shows clean edges.

CHF 8 000 / 12 000 | (€ 8 250 / 12 370)