My collection of space covers designed by Barbara Sokalsky is shown below.
Until recently, space cover collectors usually referred to these as ‘Sokolsky’ covers, but in December 2021 some new information came to light. As per the advertisement shown below (image courtesy of Dennis Ranski), the artist was Barbara Sokalsky from New Jersey, and the covers seem to have been made (or at least distributed) at first by Edward Warchol from New Jersey and later by T.D. Productions (Tom Dixon) from Brooklyn, NY.
Some Sokalsky covers have generic designs used for various different missions, and some are mission-specific. The 7 main generic designs (from A to G) are as follows:
Some Sokalsky covers have raised thermographic print and some have normal print. There does seem to be a tie between Sokalsky & ‘Celestial Covers’, as well as Sokalsky & the brand ‘Exquisite’, as seen in some of the scans below. Although not all ‘Celestial’ & ‘Exquisite’ covers seem to have been designed by Sokalsky i’ll show them here anyway.
Update: this thread on the CollectSpace forum has some interesting new information about Sokalsky covers.
A few very early use covers – 15th Sep 1960 / 17th Nov 1960 / 31st Mar 1961:
Ranger 4 – 23rd Apr 1962:
Project Highwater / Saturn II – 25th Apr 1962:
Ariel 1 – 26th Apr 1962:
Project Mercury / MA-7 / Scott Carpenter ‘Aurora 7’ – 24th May 1962:
Tiros 5 – 19th Jun 1962:
Telstar Communications Satellite Launch – 10th Jul 1962:
‘Big Shot’ Balloon – 18th Jul 1962:
Mariner 1 Launch – 22nd Jul 1962:
Unknown Event – 25th Jul 1962:
Mariner 2 Launch – 27th Aug 1962:
Last Day Of Use / Port Canveral – 31st Aug 1962:
Tiros 6 Satellite Launch – 18th Sep 1962:
Mercury-Atlas / MA-8 / Wally Schirra ‘Sigma 7’ – 3rd Oct 1962:
“Welcome Home” Astronaut Wally Schirra / Oradell N.J. – 15th Oct 1962:
ATA Space Unit – 3rd Dec 1962:
Pershing – 5th Mar 1963:
Titan – 29th May 1963:
Project Mercury MA-9 / Tracking Cover – 15th May 1963:
Tiros 7 Satellite Launch – 19th Jun 1963:
IMP-I / Explorer 18 – 27th Nov 1963:
Project Gemini 1 (original planned launch date?) – 12th Dec 1963:
Tiros 8 – 21st Dec 1963 [Design E]:
Relay 2 – 21st Jan 1964 [Design E]:
Echo 2 – 25th Jan 1964 [Similar to another ‘Celestial Cover’ shown below]:
Saturn SA-5 – 29th Jan 1964 [Design G]:
Ranger 6 Launch – 30th Jan 1964:
Blue Scout Rocket – 13th Mar 1964 [Design C]:
Explorer 20 – 19th Mar 1964 [Design C & D]:
Project Gemini – 25th Mar 1964:
5th Anniversary of First Choosing of Astronauts – 2nd Apr 1964:
Gemini 1 Launch – 8th Apr 1964 [Design B in blue]:
Apollo / Project FIRE 1 (Flight Investigation of Re-Entry) – 14th Apr 1964:
Transit-5E 2 – 21st Apr 1964 [Design A]:
Little Joe Abort Test – 13th May 1964 [Design D]:
Saturn SA-6 – 28th May 1964 [Design B]:
Centaur AC-3 – 30th Jun 1964:
Vela 3 & 4 – 17th Jul 1964 [Design E]:
NASA Chooses 2nd Gemini Team (McDivitt & White) – 27th Jul 1964 [Design D]:
Transtage 1 – 1st Sep 1964 [Design D]:
OGO 1 – 5th Sep 1964:
Saturn SA-7 – 18th Sep 1964:
Explorer 21 (IMP-2) – 4th Oct 1964:
Mariner 3 Launch – 5th Nov 1964:
Mariner 4 Launch – 28th Nov 1964:
Transtage 2 – 10th Dec 1964 [Design A]:
Surveyor Model 1 – 11th Dec 1964:
Explorer 26 – 21st Dec 1964 [Design C]:
Gemini Spacecraft 3A / Thermal Qualification Test # 1 (?) – 21st Dec 1964:
Tiros 9 – 22nd Jan 1965:
OSO 2 Satellite – 3rd Feb 1965:
LES 1 – 11th Feb 1965 [Design D]:
Pegasus 1 / Apollo 103 – 16th Feb 1965:
ASSET 6 – 23rd Feb 1965:
Gemini GT-3 – 23rd Mar 1965:
Gemini GT-3 Tracking – 23rd Mar 1965:
Intelsat 1-1 – 6th Apr 1965:
LES 2 – 6th May 1965 [Design D]:
Blue Scout Rocket / OAR 22-8 / AFCRL-335 Magnetosphere Mission – 12th May 1965:
Project Fire II – 22nd May 1965:
Pegasus 2 / Apollo 104 – 25th May 1965:
Explorer 28 (IMP-C) – 29th May 1965:
Gemini GT-4 – 3rd Jun 1965:
Transtage 5 – 18th Jun 1965:
Tiros 10 – 2nd Jul 1965:
ORS 3 / Vels 5 & 6 – 20th Jul 1965:
Pegasus 3 / Apollo 105 – 30th Jul 1965:
Surveyor-SD 2 – 11th Aug 1965:
Gemini 5 Launch – 21st Aug 1965:
OSO C – 25th Aug 1965:
Explorer 29 – 6th Nov 1965:
Gemini 7 Launch – 4th Dec 1965:
Gemini 6 Launch – 15th Dec 1965:
Pioneer 6 Launch – 16th Dec 1965:
Apollo-Saturn 201 – 26th Feb 1966 [Design E]:
Gemini 8 / Recovery / Grand Bahama Tracking Station – 17th Mar 1966 [Design C]:
Tom Stafford Addresses Banquet of US Merchant Marine Academy – 13th Oct 1966:
Apollo 11 Launch – 16th Jul 1969 [Design D]:
