Soyuz TM-17 MIR FLOWN telegram from Xmas day 24.12.1993 MA-9 providing valuable operational experience for

providing valuable operational experience for the missions that followed

The mission generated valuable medical and operational data for future long-duration expeditions beyond low Earth orbit

Russian spaceflight or flown astrophilately

Only 50 such acrylics were made

Soyuz TM-17 MIR FLOWN telegram from Xmas day 24.12.1993 MA-9 providing valuable operational experience forSOYUZ TM 17 MIR FLOWN CHRISTMAS TELEGRAM STRIP Dated 24 December 1993 Signed in Orbit by Vasili Tsibliyev and Aleksandr Serebrov A rare flown ca 3x16''telegram strip from the Mir space station, dated 24 December 1993 and hand signed in orbit by veteran Russian cosmonauts Vasili Tsibliyev and Aleksandr Serebrov. The date represents Christmas Eve, celebrated while the two cosmonauts were nearing the end of an extraordinary six and a half month