In August 1971, after seeing a television news segment featuring the Apollo 15 Lunar Rover at work on the Moon, I started to write to several space agencies in order to get autographed portraits or
link photographs of
citizen tsuyosa nj0150 cosmonauts and
link astronauts. For the first 25 years these photos were easy to obtain but by 1999 the Internet took over as both NASA and RosCosmos went digital. However specific photographs could still be obtained and I insisted I get hard copies.