Commemorating 30th Anniversary 1st Manned Moon Landing / Apollo 11 cover signed by NASA Apollo 15 astronaut Al WORDEN 

CC64 1999 from the JS(CC) series. Cover states 'Eagle has landed' and bears the Apollo 11 mission badge and commemorates the first moonlanding. Cover is British Virgin Islandss FDC for the 4 moonlanding stamps and miniature sheet cancelled on First Day of Issue.
Obtained in person only 13 produced.

NASA

The National Air and Space Administration (NASA) was formed in 1958 by President Eisenhower and the Congress. 
On 5th May 1961 the first manned suborbital flight was launched with Commander Alan Shepherd at the controls. He became the first American in space in the Mercury 3 Capsule with an historic flight duration of just 15 minutes 22 seconds. A second suborbital mission was successful in July 1961, The Mercury project consisted of 6 flights each crewed by a single astronaut. The second stage was the Gemini project and consisted of 2 crew. 10 manned missions were flown in the Gemini programme.
on 11th October 1968 the first in a new series of projects named Apollo was launched using the Saturn rocket. This was the prelude to putting a man on the moon. Apollo 11 lifted off 16th July 1969 and man was finally on the moon on 20th July. The first space car as used in Apollo 15.

Cover has been signed by

Colonel Alfred Merrill Worden

He was born in 1932 and he achieved a Bachelor of Science Degree from the US Military Academy in 1955. A commission into the Air Force was awarded upon graduation from West Point in 1955. He also graduated from the Aerospace Research Pilot school and became one of their instructors.
He retired from the Air Force and NASA in September 1975 and during his military career logged nearly 4000 hours of which 80% of it was in jet aircraft.
He was one of 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966 and was a member of the astrnaut support crew for Apollo 9 and backup command module pilot for Apollo 12. He served as command module pilot of Apollo 15 (July 26-August 7 1971)
His companions were Dave Scott who was the spacecraft commander and Jim Irwin who was the Lunar module pilot. Apollo 15 was the fourth manned lunar landing mission, the first to use a lunar roving vehicle, the first to operate a scientific instrument module bay and the first to launch a sub-satellite in lunar orbit. During the return to earth he performed a 38 minute walk in space, the first while not in earth orbit. On the flight of Apollo 15 he logged 295 hourd and 11 minutes in space and covered a distance of nearly 1.4 million miles.

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