posted 04-20-2009 07:33 AM               

At this time, only a few of us will participate in this weekly feature, but we invite others to join us and contribute with some of their own special covers.

We intend to span the large and rich field of astrophilately, which will include covers marking mostly significant space events, but occasionally even little-known events will be included. This series will display many various covers, cachets and cancels, along with information about them, that will show how meaningful and interesting collecting space covers can be.

We plan to continue this weekly series with a new cover every Monday and will begin with a cover that marks the beginning of one famous spacecraft's long road to space and into history.

1. Columbia's Overland Move
   
2. The X-15's Teething Pains
   
3. RMS First Deploy and Testing
   
4. Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
   
5. Hubble Space Telescope
   
6. Apollo 10 Recovery
   
7. Apollo 17, Last Men on Moon
   
8. Maiden Shuttle Launches
   
9. STS-125 Launch Delay 9/2008
   
10. ASTP Tracking Station
    
11. Apollo 11 Bendix Cachet
    
12. Apollo 11 Paul Calle Cachet
    
13. Apollo 11 TV Brought to Earth
    
14. Apollo 11 Moonlanding
    
15. Apollo 11 20th Anniversary
    
16. Mariner 6 and 7 Reach Mars
    
17. DOD Manned Orbiting Lab
    
18. Hubble Space Telescope
    
19. X-24B Official Cachets
    
20. First Lifting Body That Wasn't
    
21. First Men on the Moon 40th
    
22. Gemini V in Space
    
23. ASTP Launch Cover
    
24. LOFT-1 Rocket Flown Cover
    
25. Gemini's Paraglider
    
26. Tracking Skylab
    
27. SL-4 Recovery Retun to Port
    
28. Cassini Mission to Saturn
    
29. Zazzle.com Space Stamps
    
30. All Shook Up!
    
31. Lunar Prospector
    
32. Ares I-X Launch
    
33. Sam I Am!
    
34. Milestone Shuttle Launches
    
35. Clusters' Last Stand
    
36. LCROSS Impact on the Moon
    
37. Shuttle SRB Retrieval Ships
    
38. Soyuz 4/Soyuz 5 turns hot
    
39. V-2 Test, Made in the USA
    
40. Gemini Twin Stamp FDC
    
41. Tracking or Recovery?
    
42. STS-107/Columbia
    
43. John Glenn Returns to Space
    
44. Stafford Gets Scrubbed
    
45. V-2, Is That You?
    
46. Space artist Bob McCall
    
47. Space Junk to Space Cover
    
48. Mercury Stamp FDC's
    
49. LANDSAT-C
    
50. Apollo 13 Grumman Cover
    
51. Apollo 13, Lucky Number 13
    
52. Apollo 13: "At least something worked"
    
53. Apollo 13 Covers
    
54. Apollo 13 PRS USS Iwo Jima
    
55. Mercury Pad Abort Test
    
56. Mercury's Original Iron Man
    
57. Two for One
    
58. ASTP Cachet and Cancellations
    
59. Early Apollo KSC cachets
    
60. The First KSC Cachet
    
61. Willow, Hawaiian Missile Mail
    
62. Just Another Redstone?
    
63. MSFC Skylab & ASTP RSCs
    
64. Helios Offical NASA Cachet
    
65. Revisiting Mariner II
    
66. Secret Space Stamp
    
67. Testing the Saturn Engine
    
68. SRB Static Firing RSC
    
69. Unofficial Space FDCs
    
70. Gemini 5 Velvetone Cachet
    
71. USS Essex & Apollo 1 Fire
    
72. Armstrong Gets His Wings
    
73. Comet Kohoutek
    
74. The Space Age: Day One
    
75. A Space Suit Precursor(?)
    
76. Scatback the Space Monkey
    
77. Did Harry notice?
    
78. Solar Max Repair Mission
    
79. Mir-Flown Kniga Cover
    
80. John McKay
    
81. Mt. Palomar and V-2 Test
    
82. Did Morris Beck notice?
    
83. SRB Parachute Test Cover
    
84. Smithsonian Milestones of Flight
    
85. Space City Cover Society Covers
    
86. Rarest of the Gemini PRS Covers
    
87. X-Plane Pilot and Apollo 16?
    
88. Apollo Insurance Covers
    
89. Viking Parachute Test Covers
    
90. First Recovery Ship Cover?
    
91. Unflown STS-8 Challenger Cover?
    
92. USS Fox and Apollo 10? No but...
    
93. Shuttle Multi-Canceled Covers
    
94. Pioneer-Venus Parachute Landing Tests
    
95. Do-It-Yourself Dyna-Soar
    
96. Famous NASA test pilot Fred Drinkwater?
    
97. Apollo 17 S-II Arrives at KSC
    
98. Discovery of Uranus Ring System
    
99. Rockwell Space Division Stamp Club Covers
    
100. Triple Digits!!!
     
101. Hail Columbia!
     
102. Special Message from USS Intrepid
     
103. Distinct USS Okinawa Cover
     
104. Yuri Gagarin
     
105. US Space Covers with Only Foreign Postage
     
106. Saturn S-II Stage Test
     
107. USS Midway V-2 Rocket Test, 1947
     
108. First US Man in Space 50th Anniversary
     
109. Soyuz-28 Intercosmos Cosmonaut
     
110. Alan Shepard, MR-3 Launch Covers
     
111. The Douglas Skyrocket
     
112. Did the USS Myles C. Fox participate or not?
     
113. Apollo Admirals' Covers
     
114. Soyuz 3 Flight
     
115. Space Anniversary Covers
     
116. A 4th of July Surprise
     
117. A Unique Aussie Cover
     
118. Test Pilot Mike Adams' flown X-15 cover
     
119. When the Race for Space Began
     
120. ASTP Precursor Soyuz 16
     
121. World's 1st Privately Funded Rocket
     
122. X-2 Flown Cover
     
123. Cosmic-Ray Research Flight
     
124. SR.53 Rocketplane
     
125. Viking missions to Mars
     
126. More Viking Mars Covers
     
127. Palestine, TX Balloon Cover
     
128. Double Cancels
     
129. Early Arkansas Space Covers
     
130. Palomar Mountain
     
131. Skylab space station
     
132. Captain's Covers for First U.S. Orbital Flights
     
133. The Misunderstood Mercury-Scout
     
134. Lifting Body and Hot Rod
     
135. USS Observation Island
     
136. Rollout of Shuttle Enterprise
     
137. Astronaut Autographed NASA/KSC VIP Cards
     
138. Edwards Rocket Test Site Postmarks
     
139. James Lovell Czech in Space
     
140. Space Craft Covers Season's Greetings From the Moon
     
141. Russian Apollo-Soyuz Test Project FDCs
     
142. Space Shuttle's Final Flight
     
143. Forrest Petersen
     
144. Unknown USS Guam Atlantic Recovery Force, 1970
     
145. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center dedication
     
146. STS-135 Shuttle Flight Directors
     
147. Space Stamp First Day Covers
     
148. John Glenn launch scrub
     
149. Glenn Fever!
     
150. After the Flight Glenn Fever Continues
     
151. Paul Calle's Mercury astronauts
     
152. Payload specialist Robert Wood
     
153. Morris Beck Crew Covers
     
154. Apollo-Saturn V Center Grand Opening Cover
     
155. Erin Creek Missile Launch
     
156. First Space Shuttle Cover?
     
157. NASA Comes, Cities Go
     
158. Soyuz 12
     
159. Space Cover Cachet Errors
     
160. Mercury Atlas-7 USS Pierce
     
161. Yeager Flown X-1A Cover, 1953
     
162. Carpenter General Space Craft Covers Cachet
163. Voskhod 1 covers
     
164. John Glenn/Friendship 7 50th
     
165. Bob White and the X-15
     
166. Early Station Related Postmark
     
167. A Gemini 4 Mystery Cover
     
168. Shuttle Crew Escape Sled Tests
     
169. Flown on final shuttle flight
     
170. X-15 (incl. Boy Scout cachet)
     
171. who was Barbara Baker?"
     
172. Bumerang really a Boomerang?
     
173. Space shuttle RCS testing
     
174. Viking: 36 years before Curiosity
     
175. M2 Lifting Body Cachets
     
176. RIP Neil Armstrong,1930-2012
     
177. Goldey Space Cover Page
     
178. Félix or Félicette?
     
179. Pioneer Venus Program
     
180. Enterprise and the ALT Program
     
181. HL-10 Lifting Body Cachets
     
182. About a Date?"
     
183. STS Abort Landing Sites
     
184. Soyuz 30 Intercosmos
     
185. Multi-signed and well-traveled
     
186. Wally!
     
187. Orange?"
     
188. NAASM card?
     
189. Soyuz-31 Intercosmos Cosmonaut
     
190. Astronaut Flown Covers
     
191. Celebrating Apollo 17 in covers
     
192. Numeroff X-15 Flown Cover
     
193. A Skylab 4 Holiday to Remember
     
194. Soyuz-36 Intercosmos Cosmonaut
     
195. Shuttle Carrier Aircraft Flown Covers
     
196. Joe Walker
     
197. "So, Which One is It?"
     
198. Discoverer 26 AKA Corona 9019
     
199. Canadian Astronaut Stamps FDC
     
200. Teacher in Space Project