training in parallel with the prime crew of John Young

Gerst’s mission encompassed Expeditions 56 and 57 and lasted 197 days

connection to the Kelly–Kornienko One-Year Mission and provenance from the Jacques Bracke collection

NASA named Bresnik commander of Artemis III

The complete ensemble includes the original registered-mail receipt from Houston

ISS Expedition 1 letter from the ISS - delivered by the Space Shuttle first US spacewalk training in parallel with theExpedition 1 First Space Mail Historic Letter Written Aboard the ISS and Returned by STS 98 Atlantis One of only 19 reported examples From the renowned Jacques Bracke astrophilatelic collection A museum calibre artifact from the birth of permanent human habitation in space: an original handwritten letter composed aboard the International Space Station by Expedition 1 cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko and addressed to fellow Russian cosmonaut Sergei Zalyotin.