NASA Local Post (NLP) and Space City Cover Society (SCCS)

First Day Issue FDC

First U.S. Astronaut To Walk In Space
7th SCCS Cover

Catalog Number: FD-1-NLP-FDC-1
200 covers produced with se-tenant pairs
Issue Date/Circa: 1967/09/29
Reference Documents: Document-30
Document-48

SCCS had enough of the "Gemini Twin" stamps flown from KSC to Houston on
the first day of issue to complete about 200 covers with a Houston, Texas cancel.
A steel hand cancel was used as the dark color of the "Gemini Twin" stamps
prevented the machine cancel from showing. The steel cancel still didn't produce
a quality cancel, but at the time this was the only option available.

Houston, Texas Postmark
Steel Hand Cancel
Se-tenant pair

Catalog Number: FD-1-NLP-FDC-1A
50 sets of covers produced with singles
Issue Date/Circa: 1967/09/29
Houston, Texas Postmark
Machine Cancel
Single Stamp

Without Cachet
Houston, Texas Postmark
Steel Hand Cancel
Se-tenant pair

First U.S. Astronaut To Walk In Space
6th SCCS Cover

Catalog Number: FD-1-NLP-FDC-2
Issue Date/Circa: 1967/09/29
Reference Documents: Document-30
Document-48

Kennedy Space Center Postmark

Commemorating Apollo 8 Mission (Blue cachet)

Catalog Number: FD-2-NLP-FDC-1A
Issue Date/Circa: 1969/05/05
Reference Documents: (Document-108)

Blue NLP Cancel

Catalog Number: FD-2-NLP-FDC-1B
Issue Date/Circa: 1969/05/05
Reference Documents: (Document-108)

Red NLP Cancel

Commemorating Apollo 8 Mission (Four color cachet)

Catalog Number: FD-2-NLP-FDC-2A
Issue Date/Circa: 1969/05/05
Reference Documents: (Document-108)

Covers with this four color cachet were used in the First Day Presentation Folders.
M. Allen Banks Astrophile Article on the First Day Ceremony

Red NLP Cancel

Autographed by James Lovell

Catalog Number: FD-2-NLP-FDC-2B
Issue Date/Circa: 1969/05/05
Reference Documents: (Document-108)

Blue NLP Cancel

ArtCraft FDC Cover featuring A-02-NLP Stamp

Catalog Number: A-02-NLP-FDC
Issue Date/Circa: 1969/05/05

Honoring Apollo 11 Crew, Neil A. Armstrong, First Moonlanding

Catalog Number: FD-3-NLP-FDC-1
Issue Date/Circa: 1969/09/09
Reference Documents: Document-104

Washington, D.C. Cancel
Official First Day City

Catalog Number: FD-3-NLP-FDC-2
Issue Date/Circa: 1969/09/09
Reference Documents: Document-104

Houston, TX Cancel
Unofficial First Day City

Houston, TX Cancel
Unofficial First Day City
Neil Armstrong Autopen Autograph

Honoring Apollo 11 Crew, Edwin E. Aldrin, First Moonlanding

Catalog Number: FD-4-NLP-FDC-1
Issue Date/Circa: 1969/09/09
Reference Documents: Document-104

Washington, D.C. Cancel
Official First Day City

Catalog Number: FD-4-NLP-FDC-2
Issue Date/Circa: 1969/09/09
Reference Documents: Document-104

Houston, TX Cancel
Unofficial First Day City

Houston, TX Cancel
Unofficial First Day City
Buzz Aldrin Autopen Autograph

Washington, D.C. Cancel - Without NLP local

Honoring Apollo 11 Crew, Michael Collins, First Moonlanding

Catalog Number: FD-5-NLP-FDC-1
Issue Date/Circa: 1969/09/09
Reference Documents: Document-104

Washington, D.C. Cancel
Official First Day City

Catalog Number: FD-5-NLP-FDC-2
Issue Date/Circa: 1969/09/09
Reference Documents: Document-104

Houston, TX Cancel
Unofficial First Day City

Houston, TX Cancel
Unofficial First Day City
Michael Collins Autopen Autograph

Honoring Our 50 United States (Apollo 11 Lunar Module Plaque)

Catalog Number: FD-6-NLP-FDC
Issue Date/Circa: 1976/02/23
Note: FDC will have one of the 50 USPS State Flag stamps on it, covers were
initially sold in sets of 50.

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