Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Associate flags flown aboard the international space station — and apparently signed by a NASA astronaut — showed up last week on the online auction site eBay.
The original eBay catalog indicated that the 4-by-6-inch flags were brought aboard the space station by Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov in 2004, and a supplementary photo showed a sample flag that appear to bear Sharipov’s signature as well as that of Leroy Chiao, his NASA coworker on the station. Yet another photo showed numerous of the rebel flags floating in a space station module.
The item was drag from the auction on Monday by the seller, Alex Panchenko of USSR-Russian Air-Space Collectibles Inc. in Los Angeles — and on Tuesday, Panchenko told MSNBC.com that he detached the items from sale because he had finished the flag and the authentication documents were forgeries.
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