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Topic:	Austria stamps: '50 Years Joint Space Flights'

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by cosmos-walter: [B]"50 years joint Space Flights USA Russia" This year's ME-3 block of the Austrian Gmünder Weltraumfreunde astrophilatelic society shows the crew patch of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project and the first veterans of both countries who have been selected for a cruise flight, Don Pettit and Oleg Artemyev. <center><a href="https://www.collectspace.com/review/cosmos-walter/austria_2025_stamps_50_years_joint_spaceflights01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="https://www.collectspace.com/review/cosmos-walter/austria_2025_stamps_50_years_joint_spaceflights01.jpg" width="400" height="198" border="0"></a></center> Pettit landed in the Kazakh steppe on 20.04.2025 — his 70th birthday — with Soyuz MS-26. Before that, he was on the ISS with the space shuttles STS-113 and STS-126 and with Soyuz TMA-03M. Artemyev is scheduled to fly to the ISS for the fourth time with Crew 12 in March or April 2026. On Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025, our special post office will open from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the rooms of the Philatelic Association VÖPh, 1060 Vienna, Getreidemarkt 1. Austrian Post's Philatelic Day stamp pays tribute to Oleg Kononenko, who set the record of 1,110 days in space on Sept. 23, 2024, which he achieved in five space flights. It is handed in free of charge at the special post office for a purchase of 25 euros (€). <center><a href="https://www.collectspace.com/review/cosmos-walter/austria_2025_stamps_50_years_joint_spaceflights02-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="https://www.collectspace.com/review/cosmos-walter/austria_2025_stamps_50_years_joint_spaceflights02.jpg" width="400" height="400" border="0"></a></center> Oleg Artemyev signed C6 and B6 envelopes for us in July 2025 during his training at ESA in Cologne-Porz. The Gmünder Weltraumfreunde offer: [list][]ME-3 souvenir sheet mint, never hinged: 10€ []Postmark cover with ME-3 souvenir sheet: 11€ []Three postmark covers, each with a stamp from souvenir sheet: 13€ []Postmark cover with ME-3 souvenir sheet, signed by Oleg Artemyev: 12€ <center><a href="https://www.collectspace.com/review/cosmos-walter/austria_2025_stamps_50_years_joint_spaceflights03-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="https://www.collectspace.com/review/cosmos-walter/austria_2025_stamps_50_years_joint_spaceflights03.jpg" width="400" height="400" border="0"></a></center> If applicable, plus postage. The philatelic day stamps are subject to availability. Orders requested to me (Walter Hopferwieser) as chairman of the Gmünder Weltraumfreunde.[/B][/QUOTE]
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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER>T O P I C     R E V I E W</CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>cosmos-walter</TD><TD>"50 years joint Space Flights USA Russia"This year's ME-3 block of the Austrian Gmünder Weltraumfreunde astrophilatelic society shows the crew patch of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project and the first veterans of both countries who have been selected for a cruise flight, Don Pettit and Oleg Artemyev.<center><a href="https://www.collectspace.com/review/cosmos-walter/austria_2025_stamps_50_years_joint_spaceflights01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="https://www.collectspace.com/review/cosmos-walter/austria_2025_stamps_50_years_joint_spaceflights01.jpg" width="400" height="198" border="0"></a></center>Pettit landed in the Kazakh steppe on 20.04.2025 — his 70th birthday — with Soyuz MS-26. Before that, he was on the ISS with the space shuttles STS-113 and STS-126 and with Soyuz TMA-03M. Artemyev is scheduled to fly to the ISS for the fourth time with Crew 12 in March or April 2026.On Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025, our special post office will open from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the rooms of the Philatelic Association VÖPh, 1060 Vienna, Getreidemarkt 1. Austrian Post's Philatelic Day stamp pays tribute to Oleg Kononenko, who set the record of 1,110 days in space on Sept. 23, 2024, which he achieved in five space flights. It is handed in free of charge at the special post office for a purchase of 25 euros (€). <center><a href="https://www.collectspace.com/review/cosmos-walter/austria_2025_stamps_50_years_joint_spaceflights02-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="https://www.collectspace.com/review/cosmos-walter/austria_2025_stamps_50_years_joint_spaceflights02.jpg" width="400" height="400" border="0"></a></center>Oleg Artemyev signed C6 and B6 envelopes for us in July 2025 during his training at ESA in Cologne-Porz.The Gmünder Weltraumfreunde offer: [list][*]ME-3 souvenir sheet mint, never hinged: 10€ [*]Postmark cover with ME-3 souvenir sheet: 11€ [*]Three postmark covers, each with a stamp from souvenir sheet: 13€ [*]Postmark cover with ME-3 souvenir sheet, signed by Oleg Artemyev: 12€ <center><a href="https://www.collectspace.com/review/cosmos-walter/austria_2025_stamps_50_years_joint_spaceflights03-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="https://www.collectspace.com/review/cosmos-walter/austria_2025_stamps_50_years_joint_spaceflights03.jpg" width="400" height="400" border="0"></a></center>If applicable, plus postage. The philatelic day stamps are subject to availability. Orders requested to me (Walter Hopferwieser) as chairman of the Gmünder Weltraumfreunde.</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>cosmos-walter</TD><TD>You also can order mint ME-3 blocks which Oleg Artemiev would sign upon return to Moscow next fall for 11 € + postage. The Philately Day stamps available to the Gmuender Weltraumfreunde and the small covers signed by Oleg Artemiev (for single stamps) are already sold out. I removed them from the posting above. </TD></TR></TABLE></td></tr></table>

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