What Space Travel Stamps Do You Have?

I discovered these additions in a mixed parcel I picked up recently.


Mongolia 30 October 1964 - Space Research Luna 1 from a set of 8

Vietnam 25 March 1964 - Vostok 5 / Vostok 6 Rockets from a set of 3

If anyone has or collects SCCS covers this website will be of interest

http://nasalocalpost.disneylicenseplates.com/

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Stamp Club
No defunct but some interesting information for any JPL cover collectors. (I posted a JPL cover earlier).

http://www.jplstamp.com/ClubStory2/...Story1.shtml

Scott USA 2577a unmanned space travel issue of 1991.

Scott Catalog #218

Here are images of the three airmail stamps in a whimsical set entitled "Space Retrospective," designed after illustrations by S. Denis-Courty and engraved by Claude Haley, and issued by Gabon on June 10, 1970, Scott Nos. C92-C94.

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"Icarus" flying too close to the Sun


"Flying Man," Leonardo da Vinci, 1519


"Space shell" on its way to the Moon, Jules Verne, 1965

Here's a tribute to the Challenger 7, Hungary Scott 2971.



Space Shuttle Program commemorative cover, canceled on STS-135 launch and landing days.



Robert

Robert Goddard An American pioneer of rocketry.

Any info on these would be greatly appreciated.!

Here are images of two airmail stamps, designed by French artist and engraver Cécile Guillame, and issued by People's Republic of the Congo on September 5, 1970 as part of a set of four stamps commemorating historical "firsts" on the path to space exploration, Scott Nos. C102 & C103.

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Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite (1957), engraved by Cécile Guillame.


Apollo 11, the first steps on the Moon (1969), engraved by Michel Monvoisin.

Here are images of the two airmail stamps in a "Space Retrospective" set, designed by Marc Leguay, and issued by Laos on May 11, 1973, Scott Nos. C104 & C105.

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Rahu (in Hindu tradition, Rahu is the decapitated head of an asura which swallows the sun, thereby causing eclipses), rockets and Sputnik, engraved by Jacky Larrivière.


Festival rocket and Apollo lunar landing module, engraved by Claude Jumelet.

Astronaut's footprint on the Moon, airmail stamp designed by American artist Lance Wyman (1937- ), printed by photogravure, and issued by Mexico on September 29, 1969 to commemorate the Apollo 11 manned Moon landing, Scott No. C353.

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NASA astronauts David Scott and James Irwin outside Lunar Module, airmail stamp designed and engraved by Gilbert Aufschneider, and issued by Niger on July 26, 1971 to commemorate the Apollo 15 manned lunar landing mission, July 26-August 7, 1971, Scott No. C162.

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Here are images of the two airmail stamps in a set depicting spacecraft link-ups, designed and engraved by Michel Monvoisin, and issued by Malagasy on September 12, 1974 to commemorate the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, a cooperative effort between the USSR and the USA, Scott Nos. C131 & C132.

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