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Message:: [QUOTE="Skyman, post: 2611982, member: 28299"]Not a coin set per se, but definitely a numismatic set, here is a complete set of $1 bills signed by all ten Gemini crews, e.g. Missions GT-3 to GT-12 (G stands for Gemini, the spacecraft, and T stands for Titan, the rocket that launched the spacecraft).  Flights GT-3 to GT-7 flew in 1965, while flights GT-8 to GT-12 flew in 1966. The Gemini program is often forgotten in America, but it was the program between Mercury (our first men in space) and Apollo (the first humans on the Moon).  Until Gemini the Soviet Union was beating the pants off of the US in manned spaceflight.  During the Gemini program the US caught up and surpassed the Soviet Union, and learned how to safely go to the Moon. GT-3;  Gus Grissom and John Young.[ATTACH=full]571633[/ATTACH] GT-4;  Jim McDivitt and Ed White II[ATTACH=full]571636[/ATTACH] GT-5;  Gordo Cooper and Pete Conrad[ATTACH=full]571637[/ATTACH] GT-6;  Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford[ATTACH=full]571638[/ATTACH] GT-7;  Frank Bormann and Jim Lovell[ATTACH=full]571639[/ATTACH] GT-8;  Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott[ATTACH=full]571640[/ATTACH] GT-9;  Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan[ATTACH=full]571641[/ATTACH] GT-10;  John Young and Michael Collins[ATTACH=full]571642[/ATTACH] GT-11;  Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon[ATTACH=full]571643[/ATTACH] GT-12;  Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin[ATTACH=full]571644[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]