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Automated Transfer Vehicle - ATV-2 [3]
One of the 600 covers serviced by the French Philatelic Club La Marianne (EADS Astrium, France)
and flown to ISS aboard the ATV-2, inside the “French Kit”.
COVER FLOWN IN SPACE
Few of the flown covers were extracted from the “French kit” and signed onboard ISS on behalf of
ASITAF by the 6 members of the Expedition 27. They also received the blue ISS octagonal board seal,
and the round blue MagISStra mission seal of the Italian Astronaut Paolo Nespoli, one of the crew
members of the long-duration Expedition.
COVER FLOWN IN SPACE
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