APOLLO-SOYUZ CREW SIGNED HUGE CONGRATULATORY POSTER WITH FLOWN FLAGS ON IT

It's offered to your attention the huge 20x24" congratulatory poster dedicated to the famous space mission ASTP in 1975 when the Soviet Soyuz-19 docked with the US Apollo and their crews opened the hatches to meet aboard and work together.

Such posters were made in small quantities for personal presentation to Soviet officials, foreign guests and participants of the Apollo-Soyuz program, with the indication of their names. This poster has not been presented to anyone. Thus, the field for the name of the person presented to remains blank.

The poster is based on a stylized print of the Soyuz and Apollo spacecraft docked together and orbiting the Earth. This mission "symbolize the ability of nations to work together successfully in space as well as on earth", as stated in the inscription in Russian and English. The print is attached onto firm cardboard.

Size - about 505x600 mm (20x24 inches).

Condition - very good. The print and the cardboard look a bit yellowish and faded. The edges of the poster are shabby and torn somewhere. The flags are perfect. The signatures are very clear. It would look great if framed and placed onto a wall.

There are real fabric flags of the USSR and the USA (about 6x4" each) attached at the bottom of the poster. The flags were flown in space aboard Apollo-Soyuz. The crew members of both Apollo and Soyuz handsigned the poster under the appropriate flags: cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery Kubasov - under the Soviet flag, astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Deke Slayton - under the US flag.

The poster comes with the COA issued by the expert of the Moscow auction house "Gelos". It's in Russian, printed on A4 format paper.

The identical poster presented to the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center can be found by Google "search by photo". The very top photo from this listing should be used for the search. The correct link brings to the page of the GCTC in Russian what should be scrolled down. There are some preview photos at its bottom. It's necessary to use the right arrow to find the correct preview and zoom it by clicking on it. If all the above is done correctly the following identical poster will be found.

This identical poster shown above on the reference photo differs from the poster offered here by the presence of the Apollo-Soyuz mission patch in the upper right corner and the filled-in “Preasented to” field.

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