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STS-37 crew signed commemorative cover relating to the launch and deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field/Planetary Camera. The cover bears a Pasadena, California, April 24, 1990 postmark and is signed by all five members of the STS-37 crew: Commander Steven R. Nagel, Pilot Kenneth D. Cameron, and Mission Specialists Jerry L. Ross, Jay Apt, and Linda M. Godwin. The signatures appear prominently on the front of the cover in both black and blue ink.

The cachet features an illustration of the Wide Field/Planetary Camera, one of the principal scientific instruments carried aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. Signed covers associated with the Hubble program are particularly desirable among collectors of space exploration memorabilia due to the telescope’s immense scientific importance and enduring legacy.

STS-37 launched aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis on April 5, 1991, and is best remembered for deploying the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), one of NASA’s four Great Observatories. The mission also featured two spacewalks conducted by astronauts Jerry Ross and Jay Apt, including an unscheduled contingency EVA to assist with the deployment of the observatory after an antenna failed to deploy properly. The successful mission marked a significant achievement in the advancement of space-based astronomy.

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STS-37 was the eighth flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis and the thirty-seventh mission of the Space Shuttle program. Commanded by Steven R. Nagel with Kenneth D. Cameron serving as pilot, the crew included mission specialists Jerry L. Ross, Jay Apt, and Linda M. Godwin. Launched on April 5, 1991, the mission successfully deployed the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, which would become one of the most important instruments ever used to study high-energy phenomena in the universe. The flight is also remembered for conducting the first scheduled American spacewalks since 1985.

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