Gordon Cooper hand  signed MA-9 glossy launch photo

NASA also identifies him as the first citizen of an independent African nation to reach orbit

First flown in 1948

Volkov launched aboard Soyuz TM-13 on 2 October 1991 and commanded Mir’s tenth principal expedition

Postmarked aboard the ISS on September 20

Soyuz MS-22 emergency flown ISS cover - Frank Rubio Artemis 3 astronaut kapton foil Gordon Cooper hand signed MA-9Soyuz MS 22 Flown Emergency Cover Signed by the Complete Crew Exceptional flown Soyuz MS 22 mission cover, hand signed by the spacecrafts complete crew: Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, together with NASA astronaut Frank Rubio. Soyuz MS 22 launched to the International Space Station on 21 September 2022. During preparations for a Russian spacewalk on 14 December, flight controllers observed coolant escaping from the