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Astro-philatelics, part 46
We’re just starting the International Year of Astronomy, and in a similar vein, these Australian stamps from 1992 celebrate the International Space Year .
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Astro-philatelics, part 47
This stamp from the Maldive Islands has gorgeous artwork of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project linkup between the United States and Russia in 1975.
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Astro-philatelics, part 48
This 1966 set of stamps hails from the Yemen Arab Republic and celebrates the Gemini 6 & 7 missions. (Rest of the set can be viewed at here.)
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Astro-philatelics, part 49
Today is the 23rd anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. These stamps are from Mali and were issued for the tenth anniversary of the disaster, in 1996.
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Astro-philatelics, part 50
For this, my final installation of the space stamp series, I offer a 1989 (20th anniversary) Apollo 11 stamp from Montserrat, and a 1971 Apollo 14 stamp from Ajman. The colors on the Ajman stamp are...
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Friday Artspam
This turned into an exclusively-art picspam post because I only discovered this artist today, via Andrew Chaikin’s newly-launched blog. The artist is Paul Calle, one of the original artists contracted...
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Space Block
Space Block © Bombus Design on Flickr A friend showed me this terrific decoupage cube, featuring vintage space stamps (looks to be mostly, if not all, Soviet.) Very nice work, I love the overlapping of...
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Meteoric
It’s been a while since I posted a stamp — this one is unusual in that it contains actual meteorite material! In 2006, Austria Post issued a stamp with an other-worldly rock; this stamp contained 0.03...
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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford (in foreground) and Cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov make their historic handshake in space on July 17, 1975 during the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) docking...
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A Giant Leap
43 years ago today, mankind first set foot on the surface of the Moon. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the Moon near the leg of the Lunar Module (LM) “Eagle” during...
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