Certified by Tokarev • AIEP Certificate • Published in Space & Philately

A unique combination of artifacts

Unlike insurance covers from several earlier missions

Its first residents activated systems

STS-101 FLOWN early ISS cover + letter Yuri Usachev jump Certified by Tokarev • AIEPSTS 101 One of the Earliest Letters Written Aboard the International Space Station Flown aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis and preserved in the Jacques Bracke collection An extraordinary piece of early International Space Station postal history: an original handwritten letter composed aboard the ISS by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Usachev during STS 101, enclosed in its matching flown cover and carried back to Earth aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. Addressed to