What Space Travel Stamps Do You Have?

Another space oldie: Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in helmet and rocket over the Kremlin, printed by lithogravure, and issued by the USSR (Russia) in April 1961, Scott No. 2465. Great design!

- nethryk

Staying with the Soviet Union (Russia)

Here is the other SS for Cosmonaut's Day.


Scott 4072

The Soviets issued this SS also in 1973 for the 10th Anniversary
of the first woman in space, Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova.


Scott 4092

Here is an image of a space stamp designed by Hungarian artist Adam Cziglenyi, printed by photogravure, and issued by Hungary on September 24, 1959 to publicize the USSR's successful Lunik 2 Moon mission, Scott No. 1262. Note Cziglenyi's imaginative inclusion of Jupiter and Saturn in the design!

- nethryk

A few from my Russia collection - I have lots of Russian stamps and their space stamps were one of the reasons I was first drawn to collect their stamps.

I have picked up a bunch of Spacelab covers recently. Pretty nice.

And I have always wanted a set of the Star Wars stamps.

The Diamant rocket (diamant is French for "diamond") was the first exclusively French expendable launch system and at the same time the first satellite launcher not built by either the USA or USSR. Here is an image of a stamp depicting a Diamant B rocket, a radar tracking unit and a satellite, designed and engraved by Jacques Combet, and issued by France on March 28, 1970 to commemorate the rocket's successful launch on March 10, 1970 from a site in Kourou, French Guiana, Scott No. 1270, Y&T No. 1635.

- nethryk

Can't believe there's only one Canadian stamp in twelve pages.

Here's the rest.





















Enjoy!

Apollo Launch Cachet on Cover - 1968 Mexico to US

OCT 1985 Marshall Space Flight Centre - Man's Conquest of Space Cover

Space Shuttle Orbiter Test at Marshall Space Flight Center Cover. Pictorially cancelled "Marshall Space Flight Center Station USMA/NASA Metric Conference Huntsville, AL on October 4, 1985. Marshall Space Flight Center is known as NASA's "Crown Jewel"

I've seen a dealer mention that Marshall Space Flight Center Station cancels are rare as "hens teeth". Not sure if thats correct, but anyway here's my cover...........

US 10c Skylab stamp - Apollo-Soyuz US Navy Recovery Force Pacific postmark San Francisco - 24th July 1975 - .

Hand drawn cover. Artist unknown

This intrepid 1961 Czech astronaut was apparently planning to dispense with such details as a spacecraft. Such was the optimism of early 1960's Soviet bloc I guess. The Czech inscription in his meteoric wake translates as "Conquest of Space by Men".

in USSR a lot of covers was dedicated the flight souz -- appolo:

Apollo, Atlantis and Mercury spacecraft, designed and engraved by Claude Andréotto, and issued by Monaco on March 10, 2008 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the USA's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Scott No. 2489.

- nethryk

1994 New Zealand - 25th Anniversary of the Moon Landing Hologram stamp (Lithography with applied hologram)