Bidspirit auction | Astronaut Robert Parker signed 500th

Astronaut Robert Parker signed 500th Ann Copernicus signed commemorative cover. Missions STS-9 STS-16. Parker was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in August 1967. He was a member of the Astronaut Support Crews for the Apollo 15 and 17 missions, and was the person to whom the final words spoken by a man standing on the surface of the Moon (Gene Cernan) were addressed. Later, he served as program scientist for the Skylab Program Director's Office during the three crewed Skylab flights. From March 1988 to March 1989, Parker was stationed at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he served as director of the Space Flight/Space Station Integration Office. A veteran of two Spacelab missions, Parker was a mission specialist on STS-9/Spacelab-1 (November 28-December 8, 1983) and on STS-35 (December 2-10, 1990), which featured the ASTRO-1 ultraviolet astronomy laboratory.