1st AMERICAN IN ORBIT - JOHN GLENN signed SIEGER STAMP Mercury First American Astronaut in Orbit signed Sieger Start Price USD 49.99 Current Price USD 49.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, November 13, 2008 End Time Thursday, November 20, 2008 Location Barstow, California See more about '1st AMERICAN IN ORBIT - JOHN GLENN signed SIEGER STAMP' Description A rare and wonderful colorfulSIEGER STAMP BLOCK SIGNED BYTHE FIRST AMERICAN IN ORBIT - JOHN GLENN.This Sieger stamp is 4.25 inches by 5.5 inches. LOWER PRICEA RARE SIGNED STAMP BLOCKYou are looking at and bidding on one Mercury First American Astronaut in Orbit signed Sieger stamp block. The Mercury Astronaut, John Glenn is showing former President JFK his space ship, Friendship 7. This signed Sieger Stamp block is very rare and over 35 years old and very hard to find on eBay or any web site/store. You are looking at a "mint condition" stamp block for its age. A really nice item for your collection. If you have any questions, please ask before you bid. DON'T LET THISAUCTION SLIP BY YOU.THIS SIGNED SIEGER STAMPIS A MUST FOR ANY ASTRONAUT/GEMINI/APOLLO/MOONWALKER COLLECTOR. Please look at my other auction items.(From the Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia) John Herschel Glenn Jr. (born=C 2 July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio) is a former United States Senator who first rose to fame as the first American to orbit the Earth as an astronaut in NASA's Mercury program. Glenn began20his career as a Marine Corps fighter pilot before joining the Mercury Seven, NASA's original astronaut group. He orbited the Earth aboard Friendship 7 in 1962. After retiring from NASA, he served in the Senate from 1974 to 1999, serving as a Democrat and representing the state of Ohio.He was honored with a Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978 and was inducted into the Astronaut s Hall of Fame in 1990. He became the oldest person to fly in space and the only person to fly on the first and most recent US space programs (Mercury and Shuttle programs) when, at the age of 77 in 1998, he flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-95). Glenn and M. Scott Carpenter are the last surviving members of the Mercury Seven as of July 2008.In April 1959, Glenn was assigned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as one of the original group of Mercury astronauts for the Mercury Project. During this time, he remained an officer in the Marine Corps. He became the third American in space and the first to orbit the Earth, aboard Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962, on the "Mercury Atlas 6" mission, circling the globe three times during a flight lasting 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds. During the mission there was concern that his heat shield had failed and that his craft would burn up on re-entry but he made his splash down safely. Glenn was celebrated as a national hero, and received a ticker-tape parade reminiscent of Lindbergh. His fame and political gifts were noted by the Kennedys, and he became a personal friend of the Kennedy family.Although NASA did not publish the frequencies for the communications with space, according to a TV documentary two Italian radio enthusiasts, the Judica Cordiglia brothers, used a photograph of an American space ship to calculate the length of the antenna. They found the frequency and were the firs t individuals to record the voice of Glenn from space.Glenn resigned from NASA six weeks after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to run for office in his home state of Ohio. In 1965, Glenn retired as a Colonel from the USMC and entered the business world as an executive for Royal Crown Cola. He reentered politics later on. Some accounts of Glenn's years at NASA suggest that Glenn was prevented from flying in Gemini or Apollo missions, either by President Kennedy, himself, or by NASA management, on the grounds that the subsequent loss of a national hero of such stature would seriously harm or even end the manned space program. Yet Glenn resigned from the astronaut corps on January 30, 1964, well before even the first Gemini crew was assigned.Three decades later, after serving 24 years in the Senate, Glenn lifted off for a second space flight on October 29, 1998, on Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95, in order to study the effects of space flight on the elderly. At age 77, Glenn became the oldest person ever to go into space. Glenn's participation in the nine-day mission was criticized by some in the space community as a junket for a politician. Others noted that Glenn's flight offered valuable research on weightlessness and other aspects of space flight on the same person at two points in life thirty-five years apart — by far the longest interval between space flights by the same person. Upon the safe return of the STS-95 crew, Glenn (and his crew mates) received another ticker-tape parade, making him the ninth (and, as of 2007, final) person to have ever received multiple ticker-tape parades in his lifetime.Glenn vehemently opposed the sending of Dennis Tito, the world's first space tourist, to the International Space Station on the grounds that Tito's trip served no scientific purpose.The NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Cleveland, Ohio is named after him. Colonel Glenn Highway, which runs by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Wright State University near Dayton, Ohio, and John Glenn High School in his hometown of New Concord, Ohio were named for him as well. I don't sell any reproductions of any kind, and completely guarantee each item's authenticity. NOT an inkjet print, NOT an auto-pen, NOT a copy of any sort. The item you see in this listing is the item you will receive.This item comes from a smoke, pet, and dust free environment.If you have any questions, please ask before you bid.This is a great deal and a great book, so make your bid now.If you have any questions, please ask.Please look at my other auction items.Please note: Shipping and handling covers more than just the actual shipping costs. It covers a lot of other things like shipping material (plastic shipping wrap, card board, sheet protectors, labels, etc.). My time spent packaging, delivering items to the Post Office, etc. I am also differently-able person (handicapped) and it is hard for me to get to the post office, for this reason, Please note: My poor health has finally got the best of me and I can no longer ship packages without the help of someone else. 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Thank you for understanding.My Guarantee to you: I do not issue "COA's" as they are absolutely meaningless. The UACC does not use certificates of authenticity, nor does it endorse the use of such certificates. They are not worth the paper they're printed on. Anyone with a printer can make a COA, and if they're going to forge an autograph, they won't hesitate to make a COA. I offer a full money back guarantee, which is 100% better than a COA. I've been on eBay for 8 years, so I'm someone you can trust and will be on eBay in the future! I'm including the COA that is pictured in the third photo only because it was given to me when I made the purchase.I do ship worldwide, however, many countries imposes their own customs, duties, tariffs, taxes, etc., on items being shipped from a foreign country and it is the sole responsibility of the buyer to pay these taxes & fees. 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I never charge a bogus “handling fee” and I always refund any overcharge in shipping fees via Paypal. (I frequently buy on Ebay too, and I hate to be ripped off by excessive shipping and handling charges!) I don't believe in making a profit off of shipping, but I do past on whatever additional cost for packing materials needed for your items.Again, usually this cost is between one and two dollars above USPS shipping cost. 99% of the time it is one dollar or less for packing materials. Any extra shipping fees paid, will be refunded to you if not used.If you have any questions on my combined shipping policy feel free to email me. On Nov-14-08 at 03:12:14 PST, seller added the following information: Sellers: Get your own map of past buyers. Fast. Simple. Place a Bid!