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Forum:	Stamps & Covers
Topic:	Space Cover 179: Pioneer Venus Program

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Apollo-Soyuz: [B][URL=http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum20/HTML/000507.html]Space Cover of the Week[/URL], Week 179 (Sept. 16, 2012) <center><a href="http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/ss238/johnmacco007/Pioneer-Venus/Pioneer-Venus032.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/ss238/johnmacco007/Pioneer-Venus/Pioneer-Venus032.jpg" width="480" border="0"></a></center><BLOCKQUOTE>[b]Space Cover #179: Pioneer Venus Program[/b] As a followup to my posting in week 94, the space cover of this week commemorates the launches of the two Pioneer-Venus spacecraft — an orbiter and multiprobe spacecraft. The orbiter was launched on May 20, 1978 aboard Atlas-Centaur #50 and the multiprobe was launched on August 8, 1978 aboard Atlas-Centaur #51. Both spacecraft were designed to conduct a comprehensive investigation of Venus and its atmosphere. Mission operations were conducted from Ames Research Center. <center><a href="http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/ss238/johnmacco007/Pioneer-Venus/Pioneer-Venus039.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/ss238/johnmacco007/Pioneer-Venus/Pioneer-Venus039.jpg" width="400" border="0"></a></center> Both of the covers were serviced by the Ames Research Center stamp club and autographed by Pioneer Project Manager, Charles F. Hall.</BLOCKQUOTE> John Macco Space Unit #1457[/B][/QUOTE]
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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER>T O P I C     R E V I E W</CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Apollo-Soyuz</TD><TD><A HREF="http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum20/HTML/000507.html" TARGET=_blank>Space Cover of the Week</A>, Week 179 (Sept. 16, 2012)<center><a href="http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/ss238/johnmacco007/Pioneer-Venus/Pioneer-Venus032.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/ss238/johnmacco007/Pioneer-Venus/Pioneer-Venus032.jpg" width="480" border="0"></a></center><BLOCKQUOTE>Space Cover #179: Pioneer Venus ProgramAs a followup to my posting in week 94, the space cover of this week commemorates the launches of the two Pioneer-Venus spacecraft — an orbiter and multiprobe spacecraft. The orbiter was launched on May 20, 1978 aboard Atlas-Centaur #50 and the multiprobe was launched on August 8, 1978 aboard Atlas-Centaur #51. Both spacecraft were designed to conduct a comprehensive investigation of Venus and its atmosphere. Mission operations were conducted from Ames Research Center.<center><a href="http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/ss238/johnmacco007/Pioneer-Venus/Pioneer-Venus039.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/ss238/johnmacco007/Pioneer-Venus/Pioneer-Venus039.jpg" width="400" border="0"></a></center>Both of the covers were serviced by the Ames Research Center stamp club and autographed by Pioneer Project Manager, Charles F. Hall.</BLOCKQUOTE> John Macco Space Unit #1457</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Bob M</TD><TD>In addition to the handsome cachets that John has displayed above, the Ames Research Center Stamp Club also provided at least three more well-done cachets for the Pioneer-Venus mission.Shown here is a red oval cachet applied to the back of one of my P-V launch covers and also cachets for the December 4th Orbiter orbit insertion and for the multi-probes and bus entering the Venus atmosphere on December 9th.<center><a href="http://i865.photobucket.com/albums/ab215/bobmcleod/PioneerVenusCovers.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://i865.photobucket.com/albums/ab215/bobmcleod/PioneerVenusCovers.jpg" width="400" border="0"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Apollo-Soyuz</TD><TD>The last 2 covers in Bob's post above were also serviced by the Ames Research Center Stamp Club.------------------ John Macco Space Unit #1457</TD></TR></TABLE></td></tr></table>

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