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Topic: New Horizons' Pluto "Not Yet Explored" stamp
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42985 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-07-2015 04:26 AM
collectSPACE 'Not Yet Explored' no more: New Horizons flying Pluto stamp to dwarf planetThey are three words that soon will never be used to describe the dwarf planet Pluto again, and they are about to witness their own expiration. "Not yet explored." The phrase, which first appeared in 1991 along the bottom of a 29-cent U.S. postage stamp depicting Pluto, is now affixed – in the form of one those 24-year-old stamps – on NASA's New Horizons robotic probe, which as of Tuesday (July 7) is just one week out from flying by the mysterious dwarf planet. The encounter will make space history — completing the initial reconnaissance of our classical solar system — and by the nature of the stamp being onboard, will make some postal history too. Not only is it thought to be the first time that a U.S. postage stamp has been present for the event that effectively made its design outdated, but it is also the farthest that any stamp has ever traveled before. |
onesmallstep Member Posts: 1310 From: Staten Island, New York USA Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 07-07-2015 08:18 AM
If the probe is ever recovered by some future expedition, where would it go on display: the Air and Space Museum — or the National Postal Museum? |
mikepf Member Posts: 441 From: San Jose, California, USA Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 07-07-2015 10:26 AM
Amazing! Postage to Pluto is only 29 cents! I guess it would probably be a little bit more for the overnight rate. |
Cozmosis22 Member Posts: 968 From: Texas * Earth Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 07-07-2015 11:35 PM
This stamp was part of a less-than-impressive looking Space Exploration series issued about 15 years before poor little Pluto was kicked out of our planetary family. |
cvrlvr99 Member Posts: 139 From: Arlington, TX Registered: Aug 2014
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posted 07-09-2015 12:11 PM
I've got a great cover for Pluto. Well it's really a cover for my torso. It reads: PLUTO (then shows an image of a dwarf planet) 1930-2006 - REVOLVE IN PEACE.I plan on wearing that t-shirt on Tuesday, July 14th. |
Ronpur Member Posts: 1211 From: Brandon, Fl Registered: May 2012
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posted 07-14-2015 04:19 PM
When I tried to count the 9 mementos that went on New Horizons, I get 7, unless you count the 2 US Flags and two CDs as separate objects. Is this list correct? - Florida State Quarter
- Maryland State Quarter
- CD of photos
- CD of names
- SpaceShipOne relic
- Ashes of Clyde Tombaugh
- US Flag
- US Flag
- Pluto "Not Yet Explored" stamp
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42985 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-14-2015 04:31 PM
Yes, that's the list. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42985 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-19-2016 12:35 PM
collectSPACE Pluto stamp aboard NASA's New Horizons probe sets Guinness World RecordWhen NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by the dwarf planet Pluto one year ago this month, the mission set a number of records. The probe was the first to encounter the small world at the edge of our classical solar system, sending back images that revealed Pluto's surface for the first time. But beyond its own mission of exploration, New Horizons also served as the delivery vehicle for a 1.5-inch by 1-inch (3.8 by 2.5 cm) relic that set a record of its own. "The official record for the farthest distance traveled by a postage stamp is 3.26 billion miles [5.25 billion km]," said Jimmy Coggins, an official adjudicator for Guinness World Records, at a ceremony held Tuesday morning (July 19) at the United States Postal Service's (USPS) headquarters in Washington, D.C. |
onesmallstep Member Posts: 1310 From: Staten Island, New York USA Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 07-19-2016 02:48 PM
I believe this bests the previous record for farthest travelled stamps, namely the ones affixed to postal covers that went to the moon on several Apollo flights, including the infamous 'Sieger' covers flown on Apollo 15. |