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| 742.1 | U.S. space probe stamps due in October | JVERNE::KLAES | All the Universe, or nothing! | Mon Jul 22 1991 19:03 | 34 |
| Article 15335
From: [email protected] (Ron Baalke)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro
Subject: Planetary Exploration Stamps
Date: 23 Jul 91 01:56:10 GMT
Sender: [email protected] (Usenet)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
On October 1, 1991, the United States Postal Service will release a booklet
of 10 stamps showing each of the nine planets and our Moon. Each stamp
will also depic an artist's rendition of a U.S. spacecraft that explored
that particular planet:
Mercury - Mariner 10
Venus - Mariner 2
Earth - Landsat
Mars - Viking Orbiter
Jupiter - Pioneer 10
Saturn - Voyager 2
Uranus - Voyager 2
Neptune - Voyager 2
Pluto - "unexplored"
Moon - Lunar Orbiter
First Day Ceromonies will be held in Pasadena, California, and the booklet
will sell for $2.90.
___ _____ ___
/_ /| /____/ \ /_ /| Ron Baalke | [email protected]
| | | | __ \ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |
___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 301-355 | "Computers are useless.
/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | They can only give you
|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | answers." Pablo Picasso
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| 742.2 | More on stamps | TROOA::SKLEIN | Nulli Secundus | Wed Jul 24 1991 12:57 | 29 |
| From: [email protected]
Subject: U.S.POSTAL SERVICE TO SALUTE PLANETARY EXPLORATION
Date: 23 Jul 91 21:03:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet
On October 1, 1991 the United States Postal Service will release a booklet
of 10 - twenty nine cent-stamps (total 2.90), that will show illustrations
of each of the 9 Planets and our Moon.
Included on each stamp (with the exception of Pluto), will be a
artist's rendition of the U.S. spacecraft that helped explore the planet.
Mercury will have Mariner 10, Venus will have Mariner 10,Earth will
feature the Landsat ,the Moon will have Lunar Orbiter,Mars will have the
Viking Orbiter, Jupiter will have Pioneer 10, while Saturn,Uranus and
Neptune will have Voyager 2. The sole remaining planet, Pluto will have
the notation "Unexplored".
First Day Ceremonies will be at Pasadena,California. It is assumed
that for $2.90 and 10 self addressed envelopes a person could get 10
different First Day covers.
For those of us,like myself, who collect Space Items this is a
great opportunity to find something cheap.
Even if you don't collect, lets use these stamps to help inform
people everywhere that we've actually visited most of the 9 Planets
and help stir up interest in the future space programs like Cassini,
the Mars Orbiter and the en route missions of
Galileo and Ulysses.
John Edward Sexton-Highsmith Center-UNCA- Asheville,N.C.28804
E-Mail [email protected]
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| 742.3 | Stamp ceremony at JPL on October 1 | MTWAIN::KLAES | All the Universe, or nothing! | Tue Sep 24 1991 18:07 | 56 |
| Article 17099
From: [email protected] (Ron Baalke)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro
Subject: Postage Stamp Ceremony at JPL
Date: 24 Sep 91 05:27:30 GMT
Sender: [email protected] (Usenet)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Forwarded from:
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. (818) 354-5011
Contact: Mary A. Hardin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 23, 1991
The public is invited to attend a special ceremony at
10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, 1991, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
to commemorate the introduction of a set of U.S. postage stamps
depicting planetary exploration.
The hour-long ceremony will feature statements from
Anthony M. Frank, U.S. postmaster general, and Jose L.
Castellanos, postmaster of Pasadena, and remarks from Dr. Edward
C. Stone, Jr., director of JPL. The U.S. Marine Corps marching
band will perform.
In addition to the ceremony, postal workers will be
selling the stamps and other items from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in JPL's
von Karman Auditorium.
The sets feature 10 stamps, each with a picture of one
of the nine planets in our solar system and the Earth's Moon;
each is shown with one of the spacecraft that have journeyed to
it. Pluto is the only planet not yet explored. The stamps
show Mariner 10 at Mercury, Mariner 2 at Venus, the Landsat
satellite above the Earth, the Lunar Orbiter at the Moon, the
Viking Orbiter at Mars, Pioneer 11 at Jupiter, Voyager 2 at
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and a solitary Pluto waiting to be
visited.
The stamps were designed by artist Ron Miller of
Fredericksburg, Virginia. The $5.80 stamp booklet contains two
panes of 10, 29-cent stamps.
#####
___ _____ ___
/_ /| /____/ \ /_ /| Ron Baalke | [email protected]
| | | | __ \ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |
___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 301-355 Telos | Beware of programmers who
/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | carry solder irons.
|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ |
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| 742.4 | U.S. and Russian commemorative space stamps | VERGA::KLAES | All the Universe, or nothing! | Wed Jun 03 1992 16:44 | 74 |
| Article: 1070
Newsgroups: sci.space.news
From: [email protected] (Ron Baalke)
Subject: Space Stamps
Sender: [email protected] (Usenet)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Tue, 26 May 1992 23:45:06 GMT
The U.S. and Russian postal services will be releasing four
commemorative stamps on May 29, 1992, on the advancements made in
space exploration by both countries. Identical stamps will be issued
by both countries with the only differences being the country name and
monetary denomination. The stamps will show such things such as the
Space Shuttle, the Apollo Moon landing, Mir, Skylab, Sputnik, and an
astronaut and a cosmonaut.
___ _____ ___
/_ /| /____/ \ /_ /| Ron Baalke | [email protected]
| | | | __ \ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |
___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | The Finagle Factor:
/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | Changing the universe to
|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | fit the equation.
Article: 1103
From: [email protected] (Ron Baalke)
Newsgroups: sci.space.news
Subject: Space Stamp Ceremony to be Held at Spaceport USA
Date: 29 May 92 05:29:42 GMT
Sender: [email protected] (Usenet)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jon-Patrick Ewing May 28, 1992
407/867-2468
Release No.: 57-92
NOTE TO EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS
COMMEMORATIVE SPACE STAMP CEREMONY TO BE HELD AT SPACEPORT USA
Stamp collectors and the public will have the unusual
privilege of a second-day-of-issue ceremony in the Galaxy Theatre
of KSC's Spaceport USA to purchase and cancel a new set of space
stamps honoring U.S. and Soviet space exploration.
During a 10 a.m. ceremony on Saturday, May 30, representa-
tives from both the United States Post Office and KSC will be on
hand to welcome everyone and explain the origins behind the
stamp. Presentations and speeches will be made by Joe Guthrie,
director of marketing and community affairs for the Orlando post
office, Allen Vaughan, supervisor of mails for the Titusville
post office, and Marvin Jones, KSC director of Center Support
Operations.
The first-day-of-issue ceremony will be held at an interna-
tional stamp exposition in Chicago Ill., in the presence of
several Russian dignitaries. According to Vaughan, second-day-
of-issue ceremonies rarely occur but Titusville's proximity to
the nation's doorway to space also makes it the ideal place to
release the new commemorative set of stamps.
The cancellation design features the Shuttle flying over
North America as seen from outer space.
These stamps mark the 15th collection commemorating the ex-
ploration of outer space.
___ _____ ___
/_ /| /____/ \ /_ /| Ron Baalke | [email protected]
| | | | __ \ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |
___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | The Finagle Factor:
/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | Changing the universe to
|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | fit the equation.
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| 742.5 | U.S. stamp commemorating Theodore von Karman | VERGA::KLAES | All the Universe, or nothing! | Mon Aug 31 1992 13:01 | 25 |
| From: DECWRL::"[email protected]" "MAIL-11 Daemon" 28-AUG-1992
16:21:48.51
To: [email protected]
CC:
Subj: Von Karman Stamp
A new stamp will be issued on August 31, 1992, in commemoration of
Theodore Von Karman. Von Karman is attributed to being the founder
of the Jet Propulsion Lab. He taught at Caltech in the 1920s until
1942, and led a group of Caltech graduates in rocket tests during the
1930s in a isolated region about 3 miles north of the Rose Bowl in
Pasadena, California. This test site later became JPL. The stamp's
first day of issue will be during the opening ceremony at the World
Space Congress in Washington, D.C. The stamp will also be released in
a rare second day issue at JPL on September 1, 1992. This ceremony
will be held, appropriatly enough, in the Von Karman Auditorium at
10 AM PDT.
___ _____ ___
/_ /| /____/ \ /_ /| Ron Baalke | [email protected]
| | | | __ \ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |
___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | Optimists live longer
/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | than pessimists.
|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ |
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| 742.6 | Very Impressive for only 42 cents! | TROOA::BALDOCK | Chris Baldock | Fri Oct 09 1992 11:11 | 76 |
|
Canada has issued two new space stamps to honour Canadian achievements in space
technology during the United Nations International Year of Space. One depicts
a satellite orbiting the earth. This isn't a big deal. What is a big deal is
the second stamp. It's a hologram!!! It displays the space shuttle in orbit
with Canada below. A longitudinal and latitudinal grid overlays the earth
(when viewed at the proper angle). Stars appear in the background. Not only
are all objects on the stamp three dimensional, but their colours changes as
your vary the angle of the light. I picked up two sheets of twenty stamps and
two First Day Covers today. (I have included the full text which appears on
the back of the First Day Cover envelope below). They are really quite
impressive.
These stamps became available on October 1, 1992 and will be available for six
month only. Sheets of 20 ($8), corner sets of blocks of four, and Official
First Day Covers ($1.09) are available. For more information call:
Toll-free from Canada: 1-800-565-4362
Toll-free from USA: 1-800-565-1336
From other countries: (902)863-6550
or write to the:
National Philatelic Centre
Antigonish, NS
Canada B2G 2R8
Chris
London (That's Canada, eh?)
First Day Cover Story
On the occasion of the United Nations International Year of Space and the space
flight of Canada's second and third astronauts, Canada's many contributions to
space technology are commemorated in two stamp designs, one featuring a
hologram.
Following the launch of satellites by the Soviet Union and the United States in
1957 and 1958, Canada became the world's third nation to place a satellite in
orbit in 1962. "Alouette 1" provided a wealth of information about the
ionosphere and laid the foundation for Canada's later communications satellites
as well as a widely-respected space program that has included research into the
ozone layer, cosmic rays, the aurora, magnetic fields and stars in distant
galaxies. Since then, Canada has achieved a significant number of "firsts" in
space, including the launch of Telesat's "Anik A1" satellite system in 1972 to
establish the world's first domestic communications satellite system and the
Canadarm, the robot arm developed for the U.S. space shuttle, which made its
debut flight in 1981.
A major milestone in the Canadian space program was reached in October 1984
when Marc Garneau became Canada's first astronaut in space. Roberta Bondar
became Canada's second astronaut and first woman in space in January 1992.
Both completed a number of experiments in the areas of space science, life
science and space technology. Canada's third astronaut, Steve MacLean, is
scheduled in 1992 to test the Canadian-made Space Vision System to improve the
precision of the Canadarm for the construction of space station Freedom. As a
partner in the first design phase of the U.S. space station project, Canada
could benefit from the development of new space-made products and processes
that will evolve into new industries in the future.
As the manned space program opens up new opportunities, Canada maintains its
traditional strength in the design, construction and operation of satellite
systems for telecommunications and remote sensing. Canadian-designed satellite
systems not only provide TV, radio, telephone and data transmission service to
homes and offices throughout Canada, but are exported around the world.
Canadian scientists have also pioneered the use of satellites for search and
rescue missions and as an aid in air and sea navigation. As well, Canada is
developing two major new applications of satellite technology, a mobile
communications satellite system to provide a wide range of services to remote
areas and an advanced radar satellite to provide the Canadian resource industry
with information useful in resource management and energy development,
particularly in the Arctic.
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| 742.7 | Spaceport USA to launch new spaceplane stamp | VERGA::KLAES | Life, the Universe, and Everything | Wed Jun 02 1993 14:04 | 45 |
| From: US1RMC::"[email protected]" "Peter Yee" 1-JUN-1993 21:18:23.04
To: [email protected]
CC:
Subj: Postal Service to launch space stamp Thursday at Spaceport USA
[Release 60-93/KSC] (Forwarded)
Mitch Varnes June 1, 1993
407/867-2468
KSC Release No. 60-93
POSTAL SERVICE TO LAUNCH SPACE STAMP THURSDAY AT SPACEPORT USA
The U.S. Postal Service will unveil its latest space-themed crea-
tion at 11 a.m. on Thursday at Spaceport USA, the Kennedy Space
Center's visitors complex. The $2.90 stamp features the image of
a futuristic space plane soaring through space, leaving Earth and
other interstellar objects in its celestial wake.
Deputy Postmaster General Michael S. Coughlin and KSC Director
Bob Crippen will dedicate the stamp in a ceremony set to occur
inside the Spaceport Central annex of Spaceport USA. Members of
the public are invited to attend the free event.
Stamps with space themes have historically been favorites among
both philatelists and collectors of space memorabilia. Popular
space stamps of the past include a 1969 issue commemorating the
manned lunar landing and a 1992 joint venture with Russia that
culminated in the release of four stamps depicting international
cooperation in space exploration.
The Titusville Postmaster will establish a mini-post office at
Spaceport USA on Thursday to allow for the purchase of the new
stamp. The makeshift mail room will open at 9 a.m. and close at
2 p.m.
First day cancellations of the space stamp will indicate that the
stamp was issued at the Kennedy Space Center. Collectors are en-
couraged to send their requests to the Titusville Post Office
where first day of issue postmarks will be available for purchase
until July 2, 1993.
Members of the media wishing to cover the dedication may proceed
directly to Spaceport USA.
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| 742.8 | The Siberian Space Club | VERGA::KLAES | Quo vadimus? | Wed Sep 15 1993 23:35 | 92 |
| Article: 72660
Newsgroups: sci.space
From: [email protected] (Dennis Newkirk)
Subject: Siberian Space Club Postal Covers
Organization: Motorola
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 18:40:32 GMT
Sender: [email protected] (Net News)
I just received this information forwarded from Sergey Voevodin.
I have also heard of the Siberian Space Club from other sources
so it seems to be legitimate, but this information is 5 months
old (ground mail is slow). Some of the typos are the result of
my text scanner... Please forward this information to interested
people and don't ask me any questions because this is all I know.
Dennis Newkirk ([email protected])
Motorola, Land Mobile Products Sector
Schaumburg, IL
--------------
The Siberian Space Club is pleased to make you interest in its
collectibles. We are glad to inform you that we have items to fit
your collecting interests exactly: the Covers with special cancels
commemorated on some events of Soviet and Russian cosmonautics.
The most part of 1993 issues will tell you about the events never
been reflectet with the official issues of the state. Some of these
events were being hidden or sometimes denied by the Soviet Government.
A topical plan of issues and cancels for 1993 is enclosed. Also you
can find some b&w specimen covers. The club commemorative covers are
multi-colored, have date cancels of Zvyozdny Gorodok (Star Town), or
Kaluga, or Leninsk, or Novosibirsk and the international Post-Office
of Moscow and constantly Club cancels. All the Covers are numbered
and have a limited edition of 500 samples. A cover costs approximately
$2-3. We Post you the Covers you ordered via parcels from Russia or
other countries. Please settle accounts with our international
representatives in Germany and the USA. Let us know your intentions.
The Siberian Space Club will consider all of your offers attentivly
concerning our future deals. Please send your detailed inquiries to:
Russia, 630004
Novosibirsk
P.O. Box 73
The Siberian Space Club
Fax (preferably) (3832) 483003.
Sincerely yours,
Oleg Logacheff
President, The Siberian Space Club
Examples of some Covers:
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Soviet lunar manned program:
1968 (Mar, 02) Zond-4 launched (cover, cancel)
1968 (Apr, 15) Cosmos-212 and -213 (unmanned Soyuzspacecrafts) docking
(cover, cancel)
1963 (May, 10) Beginning of Soyuz project carrying out (cover, cancel)
1968 (Aug, 28) Cosmos-238 launched, unmanned Soyuz spacecraft, retest after
Soyuz-1 accident (cover, cancel)
1968 (Sep. 15) Zond-5 launched (cancel)
1968 (Oct, 25) Soyuz-2 launched, unmanned spacecraft (cover, cancel)
1968 (Oct, 26) Soyuz-3 launched, cosmonaut G.T. Beregovoi, docking failure
with Soyuz-2 (cancel)
Spacecraft by Chelomei bureau:
1978 (Feb, 03) Cosmos-929 (TKS) reentered (cover, cancel)
1983 (Mar, 02) Cosmos-1443 (TKS) launched (cover, cancel)
1978 (Mar, 30) Cosmos-997, -998 launched, 2 TKS-type reentry modules
(cover, cancel)
1973 (Apr, 03) Salyut-2 (Almaz) launched (cover, cancel)
Personalities
19'33 (Jan, 06) Cosmonaut Oleg G.Makarov born (cover. cancel)
1943 (Feb, 20) Cosmonaut Alexander P.Aleksandrov born (cover, cancel)
1923 (Mar, 11) Acedernician BorisN,Petrov born (cover' cancel)
1968 (Mar, 27) yuriA.Gagarin died in MIG-15 crash (cover, cancel)
1g43 (Mar, 27) Test pilot G,J.Bakhcivandzhi died in plane crash (cover.
cancel)
1933 (Mar, 28) F.A.Tsander died (COVeri cancel)
1883 (Apr, 9) Edition of Free space By K.E.Tsiolkovskii (cover, cancel)
19O3 (May) First edition of Researches of the Universe with jet-propulsion
systems by K.E. Tsiolkovskii (cover, cancel)
1908 (May, 18) Chief Designer N.I. Pilyugin born (cover, cancel)
1933 (Jun, 10) Cosmonaut V.l. Patsayev born (cover, cancel)
1978 (Jun, 24) Academician M.V. Keldysh died (cover, cancel)
1908 (Sep, 02) Chief Designer Valentin P. Glushko born (cover, cancel)
1933 (Sep, 10) Cosmonaut Yevgeni V. Khrunov born (cover, cancel)
1978 (Oct. 26) K.D. Bushuev died, Chief designer of L-3 craft (cover, cancel)
1818 K.I. Konstantinov born, designer of gun-powder rockets (cover, cancel)
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| 742.9 | Apollo 11 anniversary stamp on next Shuttle mission | MTWAIN::KLAES | No Guts, No Galaxy | Tue Aug 02 1994 14:13 | 50 |
| From: US4RMC::"ASTRO%[email protected]" "Astronomy Discussion
List" 2-AUG-1994 00:46:52.68
To: Multiple recipients of list ASTRO <ASTRO%[email protected]>
CC:
Subj: Hope I'm not the only one interested in this!!!
From: IN%"STAMPS%[email protected]" "The Stamps List" 2-AUG-1994
To: IN%"STAMPS%[email protected]" "Multiple recipients of list
STAMPS"
CC:
Subj: High Flying Stamps
I have just discovered from a NASA mission description on the
upcoming Space Shuttle flight, scheduled to be launched on the 18th of
August, that the U.S. Postal Service will fly 500,000 of the new $9.95
Apollo 11 25th anniversary stamps that were released on July 20th.
The report said the stamps would be sold either individually or
in sheets of 20. The price of these "flown" stamps has not been
mentioned, or where to order them, or the limit of those a person
might buy.
The article is also vague about how the stamps would be mounted
and sold. Whether they would be affixed to a "flight" cover or sold
as a packaged item is not addressed in the article, either.
If anyone hears anything about this please e-mail me at [email protected]
Thank You -------John [email protected]
Return-path: <@VTBIT.CC.VT.EDU:[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 1994 00:28:36 -0400
From: John Sexton <[email protected]>
Subject: High Flying Stamps
Sender: The Stamps List <STAMPS%[email protected]>
To: Multiple recipients of list STAMPS <STAMPS%[email protected]>
Reply-to: The Stamps List <STAMPS%[email protected]>
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
Comments: To: STAMPS%[email protected]
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% Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 00:40:05 -0400
% Reply-To: Astronomy Discussion List <ASTRO%[email protected]>
% Sender: Astronomy Discussion List <ASTRO%[email protected]>
% From: "John E. Sexton @ UNCA" <[email protected]>
% Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
% Subject: Hope I'm not the only one interested in this!!!
% X-To: ASTRO%[email protected]
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| 742.10 | RE 742.9 | NOMORE::KLAES | No Guts, No Galaxy | Mon Aug 08 1994 16:59 | 31 |
| From: US1RMC::"ASTRO%[email protected]" "Astronomy Discussion
List" 7-AUG-1994 04:54:21.93
To: Multiple recipients of list ASTRO <ASTRO%[email protected]>
CC:
Subj: APOLLO 11 STAMPS
According to QUEST magazine, August issue, it states that most of the
public is outraged that the Apollo 11 landing is being reduced to a
$10 stamp that few can afford or use... That influenced the US Postal
service to issue BOTH a $9.95 stamps and a $0.29 stamp. They were
issued July 20th in panes of 20. According to Dutch stamp journalist
Bert van Eijck, in the January 4, 1994 issue of _Nieuwsblad van het
Noorden_ (say THAT 10 times fast), planning was underway to fly $9.95
moon landing stamps on souvenir covers with special cancels aboard the
shuttle and sell the covers to collectors.
__________________________
Jim Caffey
SMSU "If its broken, its probably my night to observe"
Baker Observatory
__________________________
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% Sender: Astronomy Discussion List <ASTRO%[email protected]>
% From: Jim Caffey <[email protected]>
% Subject: APOLLO 11 STAMPS
% X-To: [email protected]
% To: Multiple recipients of list ASTRO <ASTRO%[email protected]>
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| 742.11 | Space Topic Study Group, Philatelics | MTWAIN::KLAES | No Guts, No Galaxy | Wed Aug 10 1994 18:15 | 22 |
| Article: 2943
From: [email protected]
Newsgroups: sci.space.tech
Subject: Space Topic Study Group, Philatelic organization
Date: 9 Aug 94 18:03:00 -0400
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access
The Space Topic Study Unit is the worlds largest non-profit philatelic
group. It provides information on space and rocket stamps, space
covers, and information on past and future space events. A space
cover is typically an envelope with a stamp, cancelled at the time and
place of a major space event, and a cachet depicting the event.
Examples include covers cancelled at the time of a space shuttle
launch, at the Kennedy Space Center, with a picture (cachet) depicting
the launch. Another example is the Voyager Satellite closes approach
to Jupiter, cancelled at the JPL post office (sorry, no post office on
Jupiter, yet), with a cachet depicting some aspect of the event. The
Space Unit offers a bi-monthly journal "The Astrophile" covering space
stamps, covers, mail auctions, and related subjects. Yearly dues are
$12.00. Write to Bernice Scholl, P.O. Box 522579 Marathon Shores,
Florida, 33052-2579.
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| 742.12 | Collecting stamps and PC wallpaper | MTWAIN::KLAES | No Guts, No Galaxy | Fri Aug 12 1994 16:21 | 96 |
| From: US1RMC::"ASTRO%[email protected]" "Astronomy Discussion
List" 12-AUG-1994 11:26:11.98
To: Multiple recipients of list ASTRO <ASTRO%[email protected]>
CC:
Subj: Astro stamps
From: ken.poshedly%[email protected] (Ken Poshedly)
Recently, several posts have appeared here regarding postage stamps
commemorating the 25th anniversary of the first landing on the Moon.
For any who are serious about their stamp collecting (including
astro-philately), I highly recommend: a) The American Philatelic
Society, b) the American Topical Assn. (especially its Astro-Study
unit, c) a subscription to Linn's Weekly Stamp News, and d) contact
with a local stamp collecting club.
Philately, like astronomy, "Depression Era Glass", model
railroading, etc., has its share of organizations dedicated to
furthering the hobby.
The APS is based in State College, Pennsylvania, has its own
building with a small paid staff and offers a variety of services
for stamp collectors -- including a beautifully illustrated monthly
magazine, The American Philatelist.
The American Topical Assn. is aimed at satisfying the collecting
needs of those who seek out stamps by topic.
When I began collecting stamps, in the early '60s when I was about
10 or 11 or so, I did the "kid" thing and tried for _every_ stamp
worldwide, a task that even then was just this side of impossible.
I left the hobby in the mid-60s, but stored my fledgling collection
away. In early '90, I rediscovered the hobby, joined a local club
and found that today it IS impossible to even ATTEMPT to collect
all stamps worldwide.
So I settled for general U.S. issues. By this time, I also re-
entered another childhood hobby, astronomy. Realizing that there
was no reason the two could not go together, I decided to collect
stamps with an astronomy theme to them. The 3-cent first-class
postage issue of 1948 featuring the Hale Telescope on Mt. Palomar
is one that, while not rare, is a real gem to have -- especially
if you're an amateur astronomer as well. Our astro-list coordinator
here in Atlanta and fellow member of the Atlanta Astronomy Club,
Lenny Abbey, scanned a copy of the stamp for me, enlarged it and
made a "bmp" of it which I use as my Windows wallpaper. It's a beaut!!!
It's available from the Atlanta Astronomy Club bbs at (404) 455-
3089 (8-1-n-up to 14.4 baud); you'll have to search the file areas
because I've forgotten the name of the file. (Lenny: help on this one.)
I've narrowed my collecting interest down now to observatories on
stamps, and believe me, there are hundreds of astro-stamps out there.
Besides astro-stamps, you'll find postmarks (cancellations) and
cacheted covers (envelopes) out there for the collector. But the
sad thing is that the U.S. stamp program is run, pretty much, by
noninterested individuals who have turned the once-admirable stamp
issuing program into a wallpaper issuing entity. Stamp collectors
refer to several island nations in the Caribbean and other small
countries as "wallpaper countries", because they issue stamps that
are rarely used for postal needs but only raise revenue from
collectors. Today, we have "love" stamps and stamps that don't even
include the cent or dollar sign or year of issue, since some whacko
in Washington claims it interfere's with the artistic design. No
other country seems to have that problem.
The ATA's astro-study unit even issues a periodically updated list
of worldwide issues that feature some form of astronomy.
I really recommend these ideas to any of you who have spare time
(daytime when you've slept enough, gotten home from work and it's
still too light to observe) to consider the ATA, APS, Linn's Stamp
News and your local stamp club. I'll gladly furnish membership info
to all who are interested, but it would be wrong for me to distribute
the ATA list of issues, since it's a member benefit and does include
a small cost.
Answer either here or:
Internet: ken.poshedly%[email protected]
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| 742.13 | Astrofax | MTWAIN::KLAES | No Guts, No Galaxy | Mon Aug 22 1994 14:33 | 73 |
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From: ken.poshedly%[email protected] (Ken Poshedly)
Recently, I posted a message about stamp collecting and astronomy,
and how the two can go hand-in-hand. Coincidentally a few days ago,
I received the latest issue of "Astrofax", the newsletter of the
American Topical Assn.'s astronomy study unit.
This issue features:
* A writeup on the subjects of a set of two stamps issued recently
by the Belgian post office; one commemorates the 100-year
anniversary of the birth of astronomer Georges Lemaitre of Belgium,
and the other honors Geerard de Cremer, better known as Gerhard Mercator.
In 1927, Lemaitre published his thesis in the Brussels Assn. of
Science of an expanding universe created by the explosion of a
"super atom." Today, it's called the Big Bang theory of the
creation of the Universe.
Mercator used his knowledge of mathematics and astronomy to perfect
his already excellent maps. His large-scale map of Europe was
published in 1554, after 16 years in the making. Up until then,
the most widely used map was the one drawn by Ptolemy. In 1569,
Mercator published his famous map of the world using cylinder
projection, the so-called Mercator Projection.
* A writeup of a Thales of Miletus, subject of a stamp issued in
May by Greece. While not much is certain about him, Thales lived
from about 636 to 546 BC, and supposedly predicted an eclipse of
the Sun on May 28, 585 BC using Babylonian ephemerides.
* Notes on a new issue by Gibraltar honoring Galileo Galilei.
* Notes on a two-stamp issue by Lichtenstein honoring Alexander von
Humboldt as the scientific discoverer of the New World. Between
1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled the North American continent and,
among other things, made many observations of meteors and astronomy
in general.
* Writeups on a two-stamp European set on the Ulysses solar
satellite; and notes on several issues and cancellations
(postmarks) commemorating the 25th anniversary of the first landing
of man on the Moon, including The Netherlands, Sweden and United States.
And finally, there's also a writeup about the collision with
Jupiter by Comet Shoemaker-Levy9, complete with artwork of the
special cancellation by the European Southern Observatory showing
the comet fragment line and the planet Jupiter.
I'll be happy to forward more information about this aspect of
astronomy unless the readers here feel otherwise.
-- Kenpo
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| 742.14 | Apollo 11 anniversary stamps on STS-68 | MTWAIN::KLAES | No Guts, No Galaxy | Tue Aug 23 1994 16:28 | 55 |
| Article: 21772
From: [email protected]
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: RE: Stamps on STS-68
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 94 09:53:36 GMT
Organization: IDS World Network Internet Access Service, (401)
884-9002 GUEST [telnet ids.net]
There are 500,000 postage stamps on Endeavour sealed in two 5 cubic
foot GAS canisters. They are the $9.95 Apollo 11 25th anniversary
stamp. The Post Office will sell the stamps through their mail order
phidalety (sp?) department a couple of months after this mission lands
(just in time for Saturnalia!).
I saw a prototype cover just after the abort. The stamps will be
mounted on a card with a certificate of authenticity. The outer
envelope includes a pretty nice design (even though it has a
non-sequiter in it) and will include a 29 cent anniversary stamp
postmarked with the launch date.
Pretty nice looking.
No word yet on how much the Post Office is planning on selling the
covers for. Hmm - 500,000 times $9.95 means somebody's going to make
a bunch of money off this flight!
Philip Chien
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In Article <[email protected]>
andreas@black_uster (Andreas Forrer) writes:
>Overheard on TV, that there are couple of thousands stamps on board the
>shuttle this time. The US post office will sell them after the landing.
>Does anybody know, where I could get my "reservation" for such a stamp or
>do we have to wait until some of the space memorabilia traders sells them
>for big bucks?
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>Andreas Forrer, Swiss Bank Corp., 141. W. Jackson Blvd, Chicago
>[email protected]
>"Stupid is as stupid does."
Article: 21810
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
From: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Stamps on STS-68
Sender: [email protected]
Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
The Apollo 15 astronauts Scott, Irwin, and Worden were booted off
flight status permanently after smuggling 250,000 postal covers to the
Moon. NASA kept the covers after the flight. When NASA began flying
their own covers on shuttle flights the astronauts sued NASA and
successfully forced them to give back the Apollo 15 covers.
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