What Space Travel Stamps Do You Have?

Russian PC featuring stamps from the 60's

Celebrating their space programme and Korolyov - chief designer has pride of place top left, with Yuri Gagarin medallion (centre)

Here is a small collection of Mongolian Space

1979-1983


1988 - 1989

A few posts earlier I posted the 1994 NZ Man on the Moon hologram stamp.
Here now is my FDC with the same stamp and a nice 'shuttle' PM

2 from a set of 6 Aussie SPACE Maxi Cards from 2000

A few 60's Russian Space.

1966 Dogs in Space. Verterok (Little Wind)and Ugolyok (Little Piece of Coal) spent a record-breaking 22 days in orbit in Kosmos 110 (or Vokstok 3). Launched on March 22, 1966, they landed on March 16, 1966, setting a canine space flight unsurpassed by any other living creature until the U.S. launched Skylab 2 in June, 1974. They were both recovered successfully.

1967 from a set of 3 - Alexi Leonov Space Walking / Voskhod 1. Voskhod 1 was the first spaceflight to carry more than one person into space and the first flight without space suits. The Soviet mission was specifically planned to beat the U.S. Gemini program to this milestone. As a further propaganda coup, the spacecraft was claimed to have carried into orbit a fragment of a communard banner from the Paris Commune of 1871.

1967 - 4k Russia Space Soviet Sputnik over Kremlin & Ostankino Tower

1969 Set of 3 - Soyuz crews

1968

4 K Leonov in space
6 K Linking of satellites in space
10 K Venera-4 space probe

My interest in Space/ Space Stamps, etc started with Dan Dare - what got you started ??????.

I thought I would add one of my most interesting space themed Items. Back in the mid 1970s-late 1980, the Soviets had a program called "Interkosmos" which gave countries friendly to the USSR friendly terms access to manned and unmanned space missons.
These International Cosmonauts came from Soviet Bloc countries such as Bulgaria,East Germany and non-aligned counties such as Afghanistan, India and France.




This cover is from Soyuz TM-6. It was the 6th manned misson to the space Station Mir. It's signed by Vladimir Lyakhov, the misson commander and by Afghan cosmonaut Abdul Ahmad Mohmand.Mohmand is said to be the first person to carry a copy of the Quran into space He made Pashtu the 4th language to be spoken in space when he called his mother from the Mir to reassure her of his wellbeing.

I hope these signatures are original. I've heard alot of the Russian "signed" covers were done by autopen.

Ajnabii
Interesting cover with it having the signature - hoping its genuine. Thanks for the scan and information. Sadly, I lost most of my Russian space covers in one of my moves around the world.

BTW. I noticed Vladimir Kovalyonok and the first German cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn were autographing material at the Astrophilatelic show in Germany this past April. One could have guaranteed genuine signatures from them !

http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/For.../002857.html

For 'space' collectors I noticed information about this catalogue

Weltraum Philatelie e. V., the German association of space stamp and cover collectors, has released a new, full-color guide to every space-related stamp ever issued in Europe and Russia.

From Albania through Yugoslavia, on over 450 pages, author Dieter Steinbrecher provides descriptions and illustrations of the stamps issued through the end of 2007. "This catalog caters for the needs of collectors who wish to collect, sort or exhibit space and astronomy stamps," Steinbrecher explains.

The catalog uses the numbering system of the German Michel catalog, however it is not a price guide as values are not listed.

"Each and every single stamp is reproduced in color, not just a single stamp standing as an example. This has never been done before," said Florian Noller, President of Weltraum Philatelie.

In the years to come, Weltraum Philatelie intends to publish additional volumes, assembling the space stamps issued on the other continents.

The printed catalog is available for 55 Euro or 20 Euro for a PDF version on CD-ROM. Shipping costs are additional.

Anyone know what happened to the 'Jet Propulsion Laboratory Stamp Club'

Whats the current value of their covers?

Example - 1979 Voyager 2 - Jupiter Encounter

Re the 'Jet Propulsion Laboratory Stamp Club'

It appears the guy behind the club, Dr. Jim Rose, has retired and decided not to continue.

Here for your delight and delectation is another of the JPLSC covers

1995 JPLSC Galileo Probe

One of the 8,743,070

The 10¢ First Man on the Moon stamp was designed by artist Paul Calle and I believe that postage stamp was the first jumbo-size commemorative issue.

The Apollo 11 FDC was the most popular ever issued with a record 8,743,070 postmarked at Washington, D.C., the official city of release.

Someone earlier showed the stamp - but here's the cover.

1989 World Stamp Expo

What happened to all the space cadets?

Someone decided these Cuba se-tenant pairs would be better separated