With two seats assigned to France and Slovakia

making it a highly coveted treasure for collectors

and docked with Mir on June 29

accompanied by his official Certificate of Authenticity

After 18 days docked to the station

Soyuz TM-17 MIR FLOWN telegram from Xmas day 24.12.1993 Alan Bean With two seats assigned toSOYUZ 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