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Collection of eight flown postal covers carried to either Salyut 6 or Mir space stations, where they were canceled, signed by the crews, and then returned to Earth. The covers, which date between 1978 and 1993, document a pivotal era in Soviet and Russian human spaceflight, spanning the operational maturity of Salyut 6 — the first station to support long-duration expeditions and international Interkosmos crews — through the modular Mir program, precursor to the International Space Station. Several missions represented here include historic firsts, such as the first Polish and Romanian cosmonauts, as well as early post–Cold War international cooperative flights. The covers, which feature the appropriate cancellation marks and stamps, and are signed by one or more cosmonauts from the following missions:
- Soyuz 29/30/Salyut 6 (Vladimir Kovalyonok and Mirosław Hermaszewski)
- Soyuz 40/Salyut 6 (Leonid Popov, Dumitru Prunariu, Vladimir Kovalyonok, and Viktor Savinykh)
- Soyuz TM-8 (Aleksandr Serebrov)
- Soyuz TM-9/10 (Anatoly Solovyev, Aleksandr Balandin, Gennady Manakov, and Gennady Strekalov)
- Soyuz TM-10 (Gennady Manakov and Gennady Strekalov)
- Soyuz TM-12/13/14 (Anatoly Artsebarsky, Sergei Krikalev, Alexander Volkov, Toktar Aubakirov, Franz Viehböck, Aleksandr Viktorenko, Aleksandr Kaleri, and Klaus-Dietrich Flade)
- Soyuz TM-15/16 (Anatoly Solovyev, Sergei Avdeyev, Gennadi Manakov, and Alexander Poleshchuk)
- Soyuz TM-16/17 ( Gennadi Manakov, Alexander Poleshchuk, Vasili Tsibliyev, Aleksandr Serebrov, and Jean-Pierre Haigneré)
In overall fine condition.
