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Topic: CAPSULE COMMENTS (3)
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Astro Bill
Member Posts: 1329
From: New York, NY
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 07-09-2005 12:03 PM
   
Welcome to Capsule Comments - 3rd Edition:
Capsule Comments is a regular column in the Astrophile of the Space Unit. To obtain more information about the Space Unit, go to their website: http://stargate.1usa.com/stamps/ -
 ASTP 30th Anniversary Cancel
The USPS has authorized the use of a special pictorial cancel for the 30th anniversary of the Apollo/Soyuz mission (15 July 1975). The cancel will be used in Sparta, WI, location of the Deke Slayton Museum. To obtain this special cancellation send your stamped self-addressed envelopes (SASE's) to: Postmaster, 30th Anniversary Apollo-Soyuz Station, P.O. Box 9998, Sparta, WI 54656-9998. For more information about the Deke Slayton Museum go to this website Ukraine - A Space Nation
UKRAINE issued two space stamps on 12 Nov 2004 in their series Ukraine, a Space Nation. These two stamps depict the ISS Khartron Systems Emblem and the 1516 Battle between Cossacks and Tartars using fiery projectiles. These issues and other issues in the series (2002-2005) are available here.
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Astro Bill
Member Posts: 1329
From: New York, NY
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 07-10-2005 10:26 AM
SPACE PHILATELY CONTEST #3  Shown here is a photo of the twin anchors of the USS Donner (LSD-20) following the scrapping of this vessel earlier this year. The photo was taken by Al Halfrey, a former member of the crew, and is used here with permission. His article on the history of the USS Donner and its eventual scrapping will be published in a future issue of the Astrophile, official bi-monthly journal of the Space Unit. The question for this contest is: For which Mercury mission was the USS Donner the recovery ship and who was aboard the Mercury capsule? The first person to reply to this contest at my e-mail address with the correct answers will receive official crew photos of the STS-108 and STS-112 crews supplied by Space Unit KSC Correspondent Ken Havekotte. [] [This message has been edited by collectSPACE Admin (edited July 10, 2005).] |
Apollo-Soyuz
Member Posts: 1205
From: Shady Side, Md
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted 07-10-2005 11:50 AM
I think it was the MA-4 flight. Wasn't there a chimp onboard this flight?  ------------------
John Macco
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Space Unit
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eurospace
Member Posts: 2610
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 07-10-2005 03:27 PM
Mercury Redstone 2 and chimpanzee Ham.------------------
Jürgen P Esders
Berlin, Germany
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eurospace
Member Posts: 2610
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 07-11-2005 11:55 AM
To add to the information about the ASTP postmarker - the Deke Slayton Museum sends me the following information about cacheted covers:"Please send a SASE and $2.50 to the Deke Slayton Museum 200 West Main, Sparta WI 54656. We will be sending out the cacheted covers after 7/16/2005." ------------------
Jürgen P Esders
Berlin, Germany
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astroaddies |
Astro Bill
Member Posts: 1329
From: New York, NY
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 07-11-2005 05:19 PM
The USPS cancel for the 30th Anniversary of the Apollo/Soyuz mission is available free of charge to all collectors who send a stamped self-addressed envelope (SASE) to the Sparta, WI address mentioned in the first item in this Capsule Comments thread. The COVER mentioned in Eurpspace's posting is a cacheted COVER issued by the museum. The USPS covers will be uncacheted, unless you send the USPS envelopes with a cachet of some kind. |
micropooz
Member Posts: 1512
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 07-11-2005 08:29 PM
And another fun fact to know and tell about the Donner - three weeks after recovering Ham, it recovered the unmanned (and unchimped) MA-2 capsule. |
eurospace
Member Posts: 2610
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 07-12-2005 01:34 PM
Astro Bill,You are right - the covers sold by the museum are cacheted cover. However, when sending your own covers to the post office, they are NOT free of charge. You still need to put a 37c stamp on the cover, another 37c on the outer envelope, and maybe another 37c for a return envelope. That costs you a total of $1.11 for your own blank cover. My maths are right, are they?
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Jürgen P Esders
Berlin, Germany
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astroaddies |
Astro Bill
Member Posts: 1329
From: New York, NY
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 07-12-2005 05:20 PM
I am sure that all space cover collectors know what a SSAE is and that it includes a 37c stamp. Your posting regarding the museum cover may have given some collectors the impression that they must send $2.50 for the FREE cancel that I mentioned at the beginning of this thread. What I meant by "free of Charge" is that you do NOT have to write a check for $2.50 if you just want the FREE cancel. This also applies to all cancels mentioned in Capsule Comments #1 - #3. |
Astro Bill
Member Posts: 1329
From: New York, NY
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 07-12-2005 06:01 PM
I have many more photos of the USS Donner (LSD-20) both while it was active and on its way to be scrapped. Would anyone like to see a few more? They were supplied by former Donner crewman Al Halfrey. His article on the USS Donner will appear in a future issue of the Astrophile of the Space Unit. However, because of space limitations in this b-monthly journal, only a few photos will be published and they will not be in color. [This message has been edited by Astro Bill (edited July 12, 2005).] |
NasaFrk
Member Posts: 56
From: Winter Park,FL
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 07-13-2005 08:23 PM
Thanks to Astro Bill for the Capsule Comments postings!!!! Please keep it going |
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posted 07-14-2005 02:02 PM
This is from: http://www.homestead.com/USSDONNERLSD20/files/HamRecovery/HamRecovery.html The USS Donner, teamed with an embarked Marine Corps helicopter, successfully recovered the Mercury Capsule used in Project Mercury Test MR 2 Tuesday (January 31, 1961), after the space vehicle was fired from Cape Canaveral, Fla. with a chimpanzee aboard.
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