The cover is hand-signed by the complete six-person crew aboard the International Space Station following the Soyuz MS-09 arrival:

receiving the recovered cassettes and passing them inside to Commander John Young

while Gerst progressed from flight engineer during Expedition 56 to station commander during Expedition 57

the reverse bears a personal certification by cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri

Flown to both Salyut 7 and Mir

Soyuz TM-21 – crewsigned launch cover - first Shuttle/MIR docking Ken Mattingly The cover is hand-signed byHistoric Soyuz TM 21 crew hand signed launch cover Baikonur by Vladimir Dezhurov, Gennadi Strekalov and Norman Thagard from the US. First American onboard a Russian spacecraft ! Excellent condition.