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Topic: [Petition] USPS to honor New Horizons in 2015
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42985 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-01-2012 02:19 PM
collectSPACE Petition pushes Pluto probe postage stampTwenty-one (21) years ago, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) issued a stamp depicting the now on-again, off-again planet Pluto with the inscription "Not Yet Explored." Now, the team behind NASA's first mission to the last planet wants to correct that record with a stamp of their own. |
cspg Member Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 02-02-2012 02:52 PM
And if the mission fails? |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42985 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-02-2012 03:16 PM
If you recall from last year, the USPS had already produced 30 million postage stamps honoring MESSENGER as the "First Spacecraft to Orbit Mercury" before the probe entered orbit in March 2011. That stamp wasn't released to the public until May, but USPS officials told collectSPACE that regardless the outcome of the mission, the stamp would have still gone forward. New Horizons will fly by Pluto, so regardless if it successfully sends back data or not, it will still be the first man-made object to approach that dwarf planet and is in fact already the closest spacecraft to have ever done so. |
DChudwin Member Posts: 1096 From: Lincolnshire IL USA Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 02-04-2012 06:56 PM
Besides signing the petition, letters suporting the New Horizons stamp can be sent to the committee which chooses U.S. stamp topics: Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee c/o Stamp Development U.S. Postal Service 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW, Room 3300 Washington, DC 20260-3501 |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42985 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-13-2012 09:14 AM
MSNBC's Alan Boyle writes on his blog, the Cosmic Log, about the final push for Pluto's postage stamp. More than 11,000 people have signed an online petition to honor NASA's mission to Pluto and other denizens of the solar system's icy rim with a commemorative U.S. postage stamp — which is a fine way to celebrate the 82nd anniversary of Pluto's planetary coming-out party."I'm pretty happy," said Alan Stern, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute who is the principal investigator for NASA's New Horizons mission. New Horizons is due to fly by the dwarf planet in 2015, and Stern is among the leading supporters of the stamp campaign. "A lot of stamps get 1,000 petition names, and they're very happy with that," Stern told me. "Still, I'd rather have 12,000 than 11,000." Tuesday marks the 82nd anniversary of the announcement of Pluto's discovery by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, and it also marks a turning point for the petition drive. Stern said he and his colleagues are now turning their attention to the preparation of a formal proposal that will be submitted to the Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee next month. |
LM1 Member Posts: 667 From: New York, NY Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 07-07-2015 09:09 PM
This may be a good time to resurrect the Petition for a New Horizons stamp in 2015. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42985 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-07-2015 09:38 PM
The USPS received and reviewed the petition for a New Horizons stamp in 2013. There was even a brief time in 2014 when it seemed like the petition had been successful (and then it was not).When I spoke to New Horizons' principal investigator Alan Stern last week, he said he was still optimistic that the USPS would choose to honor the mission sometime after the flyby was proven successful. During my call with Mary-Anne Penner, the U.S. Postal Service's acting director of stamp services, she said there were no plans for a stamp that she could share but invited our readers to continue submitting their ideas to the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee. I'm not sure another petition is merited but certainly individual letters cannot hurt. | |
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