Apollo 15 postal covers incident
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apollo-15-postal-covers-incident-165-11774716
title:
Apollo 15 postal covers incident
text:
The Apollo 15 postal covers incident, a 1972 NASA scandal, involved the astronauts of Apollo 15, who carried about 400 unauthorized postal covers into space and to the Moon's surface on the Lunar Module Falcon. Some of the envelopes were sold at high prices by West German stamp dealer Hermann Sieger, and are known as "Sieger covers". The crew of Apollo 15—David Scott, Alfred Worden, and James Irwin—agreed to take payments for carrying the covers; though they returned the money, they were reprima
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encyclopedia
description:
1972 NASA scandal
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_15_postal_covers_incident
date created:
2006-05-28T02:32:45Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T11:56:33Z
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