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Topic: Orion EFT-1: Launch and recovery event covers
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Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2913
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 12-27-2014 08:49 PM
   
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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
I imagine by the time the next Orion launches, there will be a new cancel device in use.
With further continuation of NASA's Orion program, the die hub of KSC's only machine cancel device hopefully will be changed sometime in the future.It has been more than 37 years since the current "Space Shuttle; For Benefits On Earth, NASA" pictorial cancel has been in full-time use here at the Kennedy Space Center. First day application of that shuttle program logo pictorial cancel was July 1, 1977. After the shuttle program ended in July 2011, there had been unofficial discussions with my firm and the operating postal service company here at Kennedy about this very same topic. My initial suggestion was to perhaps change the shuttle pictorial cancel to a new die hub commemorating the orbital International Space Station (ISS). Those early talks never went to the next level, however, I do certainly agree with you that there needs to be a new pictorial cancel in use for NASA's new generation of deep space flight exploration. If not for the ISS, still in operation for many more years, perhaps the new Orion program would be a good choice. Are there any other suggestions or ideas? |
JBoe
Member Posts: 959
From: Churchton, MD
Registered: Oct 2012
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posted 12-27-2014 09:10 PM
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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
They were postmarked using the shuttle program logo cancellation...
Is that the triangular logo? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42985
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-27-2014 10:05 PM
Yes, the triangular logo. quote:
Originally posted by Ken Havekotte:
Are there any other suggestions or ideas?
A simple and timeless design would be the NASA (meatball) logo. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2913
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 12-28-2014 05:00 AM
Yes, Robert, the NASA meatball for a replacement cancel would be a good suggestion, however, it had already been used for many years here at KSC (from July 1, 1965 until March 1977).In conjunction with the NASA meatball logo design during those years was a depicted Saturn V rocket launch as well. The NASA "worm" design emblem had also been used throughout the shuttle program for decades and still continues on today. It was in combination with the shuttle program emblem design, but yet on the same pictorial cancel. But NASA, however, no longer wanted to use their agency's "worm" graphic design after the Apollo-Soyuz project during the mid/late 1970s. It should have been changed back to a simpler or non-graphical "NASA" wording,
but never was. |
Bob M
Member Posts: 1744
From: Atlanta-area, GA USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 01-06-2015 07:02 AM
As an update concerning collectors' covers sent to the USS Anchorage for the Orion EFT-1 spacecraft recovery, and also to the San Diego Naval Base post office for return to port cancels: nothing to update, as nothing has returned for me and also as far as I know for other collectors. On a more positive note, Ken Havekotte has indicated that he now has ESA Philatelic Club/Lollini cacheted covers available for the December 5 Orion launch. These are $3.50 each plus SASE. Also available from Ken in limited quantities, are ESA Philatelic Club covers for the October 31st SpaceshipTwo's fatal flight canceled with a Mojave, CA/Spaceport pictorial cancel. |
Pete Sarmiento
New Member Posts: 1
From: Fort Washington, MD, USA
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 06-02-2015 09:48 PM
Did anybody send covers to the USS Anchorage for the Orion EFT-1 splashdown?I sent covers to the ship and haven't gotten anything back. Wrote to the Commander of the ship, no response. Further investigation is in the making. | |
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