Soyuz TMA-8 - Svarowsky crystals stamp FLOWN ISS cover + letter ASTP During the expedition

During the expedition

The pair returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016 with cosmonaut Sergey Volkov

The cover commemorates the launch of Soyuz TMA-11M from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 7 November 2013

He later completed several additional long-duration missions aboard the ISS

1975 to test the rendezvous and docking systems of the US and the Soviet spacecraft

Soyuz TMA-8 - Svarowsky crystals stamp FLOWN ISS cover + letter ASTP During the expeditionUNIQUE ISS FLOWN SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL STAMP COVER AND HANDWRITTEN LETTER Delivered by Soyuz TMA 8 to Cosmonaut Valery Tokarev Certified by Tokarev AIEP Certificate Published in Space & Philately From the Personal Collection of Renowned Astrophilatelist Jacques Bracke An extraordinary and potentially unique piece of International Space Station astrophilately, consisting of an envelope addressed and sent to Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev aboard the ISS,