N0RQ / KC5POV & family - rarest QSL cards

QSL cards can be special for a number of reasons.  Pictured below are the rarest of the ones we have.

In March of 2006, 3 of us were thrilled to contact NA1SS -- Bill on the International Space Station.  Each contact was about a week apart, not all right in a row.  Shown below is the front of the card, as well as an image of the back of all 3 cards (scanned together in 1 jpg) -- PROOF we spoke to an astronaut in space!

(gotta-rescan the cards below...)

1S1DX from April 1979, on the last day of the DX-pedition, Spratly Is. !!!
My equipment at the time was a Tempo 2020, 200 watts, and a 3-band
trap vertical.  Yipee!

And of course, from September 2002 a mere 2 months before the operation
was shut down, P5/4L4FN, North Korea, snagged with a Yaesu FT-900/CAT,
100 watts, and a Force 12 XR-5 beam at 64':

73, Dave, N0RQ

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