This is an official Art Craft First Day Cover featuring the 1974 10¢ Skylab stamp, postmarked in Houston, Texas on May 14, 1974—the first day of issue.
Skylab was the United States’ first orbiting space station, launched in 1973. The stamp and cachet celebrate America’s growing achievements in space exploration during the post-Apollo era, including the fifth anniversary of the first Moon landing.
The striking black-and-white cachet depicts the Skylab station in orbit with the sun and Earth, while the colorful stamp shows the station against a vibrant cosmic background. The cover also notes the 1974 fifth anniversary of man’s first landing on the Moon.
Addressed to Dr. Charles R. Martin in Jacksonville, North Carolina—a city long associated with the U.S. Marine Corps’ Camp Lejeune—this cover carries an interesting personal connection to a military community with deep ties to aerospace and defense.
A clean, well-preserved example ideal for collectors of space-themed philately or NASA postal history.
