UNIQUE PIECE, YAMAHA organ, Portsound PSS 140,... Lot 42

UNIQUE PIECE, YAMAHA organ, Portsound PSS 140, this keyboard spent 9 years in space. Carried in November 1988, on board the Soyuz TM-7, then in the space station MIR (Russian) by the French astronaut Jean-Loup CHRETIEN. This organ remained in the space station Mir during 9 years until the crew of the space shuttle STS-86, which included Jean-Loup Chrétien, brought it back on Earth in October 1998. The Mir crew members signed and certified the keyboard with a special commemorative stamp upon his return to Earth. A silver photograph of the period is added to the stamp, which places the organ in weightlessness in the Russian space station. It is probably one of the objects that has remained in space for the greatest number of years and held in private hands. "This Keyboard was taken to Russia's Mir Space Station by French astronaut Jean-Loup Chrétien in November 1988 on board Soyuz TM-7. It remained on Mir until the STS-86 Space Shuttle Crew, which included Chrétien, brought it back to Earth in October 1998. Mir Crew Members signed and certified the Keyboard with a special commemorative stamp its return to Earth." (ref: 23/3)