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Topic: 50 years of human spaceflight philatelic issues
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Wehaveliftoff
Member Posts: 2343
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Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 12-03-2010 01:24 PM
  
Any news updates on any stamps or other philatelic commemorations of Yuri Gagarin's historic flight 50 years ago? |
Tykeanaut
Member Posts: 2212
From: Worcestershire, England, UK.
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 12-03-2010 04:38 PM
Our society in the UK will more than likely be producing some limited-edition commemorative covers. We also issued some for the 40th anniversary of Alexei Leonov's EVA.
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42985
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-03-2010 04:55 PM
United Nations stamps for 50th Anniversary of Human Space Flight |
ChrisCalle
Member Posts: 135
From: Ridgefield, CT USA
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 12-03-2010 07:58 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Tykeanaut:
Our society in the UK...
What Society would that be?Chris
www.callespaceart.com |
Tykeanaut
Member Posts: 2212
From: Worcestershire, England, UK.
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 12-04-2010 10:18 AM
Midlands Spaceflight Society. Our President is Dave Shayler and our Honorary Member is Helen Sharman. There is a dedicated thread in the Free Space section. |
spaceman1953
Member Posts: 953
From: South Bend, IN
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 12-06-2010 08:04 PM
So like many of you I "plan" on producing "something" in the way of a cachet for the Shepard (US) stamp and the UN spaceflight anniversary stamp(s).I would be interested in putting together a list NOW of who will be making what (covers, cards., etc) and who will be willing to trade some of my unserviced cachets for your unserviced cachets. There was a collector who set up a "group"/publication for "Apollo 11 at 25" covers (as I call them) and I certainly am NOT planning on trying to duplicate that effort... I just am looking for cachet trades for next year... I quite likely will just do a printed cachet (one color) but that is always up in the air, because I have to "train" a new local printer all about cachets since the ones I have used in the past have all moved on/gone out of business. I don't expect to do more than one design, but a 5x7 card is not out of the question either since they allow so much more space to work with rather than just a 6 3/4" cover. Reply via e-mail is probably better but I am open: use eugenebella@yahoo.com for this effort, please. |
eurospace
Member Posts: 2610
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 12-08-2010 03:04 AM
Austria will be issuing a sheetlet in April.------------------
Jürgen P Esders
Berlin, Germany International Director (Europe), Space Unit
Vice President, Weltraum Philatelie e. V. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astroaddies |
OLDIE
Member Posts: 268
From: Portsmouth, England
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted 12-08-2010 09:59 AM
I expect that the nearest we, in Britain, will get to commemorating human spaceflight is a stamp issue, in January, commemorating Gerry Anderson's creations (Thunderbirds etc). Successive British governments have sought to discourage any interest in human spaceflight. I suspect this is because - It might cost money
- It might encourage us to be proud of our achievements (and that is absolutely "a bad thing" for everybody is supposed to be equal)
- Politicians don't generally understand science. Spending money on a Millenium Dome, or hosting Olympic and Football World Cup events are okay since these are "Arts" orientated and populist (even though they plunge the nation into penury)
I remain to be proved wrong about a stamp issue. |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1310
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 12-08-2010 04:36 PM
Don't worry, one day a S/S or stamp issue will honor Helen Sharman and the other Brits who have 'flown the flag' in space-after all, if they can issue stamps for Wallace & Gromit, why not for someone who rides a rocket into orbit? Besides, with Tim Peake now in the ESA astronaut corps, he could be part of an omnibus issue honoring spaceflight in the near future.  |
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