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Topic: USPS shuttle flown items
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Gilbert
Member Posts: 784
From: Carrollton, GA USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted April 30, 2007 06:44 PM
   
I know of the STS-8 covers and the STS-68 stamps that were officially flown in space by NASA and the USPS. Are there any others? Did anything like these fly on Columbia or the other orbiters? Or Enterprise/ALT? |
cosmos-walter
Member Posts: 323
From: Salzburg, Austria
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted May 01, 2007 08:57 AM
Most Shuttle flights docking with Soviet / Russian space station Mir or with International Space Station also delivered letters or covers. |
eurospace
Member Posts: 2111
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted May 02, 2007 05:02 PM
It should be mentioned, however, that these covers were carried privately by the involved cosmonauts, and they were not officially approved by NASA and/or USPS.------------------
Jürgen P Esders
Berlin, Germany
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astroaddies |
Gilbert
Member Posts: 784
From: Carrollton, GA USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted May 02, 2007 07:05 PM
That's right Jurgen. I was looking for joint venture projects between NASA and the post office. |
Astro Bill
Member Posts: 1329
From: New York, NY
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted May 03, 2007 05:09 PM
There were only two flown covers that were carried by NASA in quantity for the USPS as shown at the following cS link:
http://collectspace.com/collection/philatelic.html |
Gilbert
Member Posts: 784
From: Carrollton, GA USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted May 03, 2007 05:42 PM
Well, it looks as though I have a complete set then. Thanks for the information.
GH |
Danno
Member Posts: 557
From: Huntington Beach, CA - USA
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted May 04, 2007 10:34 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Astro Bill:
There were only two flown covers that were carried by NASA in quantity for the USPS as shown at the following cS link:
http://collectspace.com/collection/philatelic.html
Just to nitpick - only the STS-8 cover was flown. On the STS-68 item only the stamp in the window was flown, not the entire cover.
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