Flying on the Mercury spacecraft, Shepard launched, flew 116 miles high and came back to Earth. This stamp, released in 2011, featured Alan Shepard, the first American in space. This stamp, released in 1999, depicts the post World War II race in space exploration. Launched in 1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt and obtain close-ups of Jupiter Stamps depicting multiple nebulae seen by the Hubble Space Telescope were released in 2000. Here’s a look at a few space stamps of the past: In the past, many different space images and missions have been highlighted on the tiny pieces of paper you stick on the corner of your mail. This isn’t the first time that space has been featured on postal stamps. Eight new colorful Forever stamps – each shown twice – feature Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The above pane of 16 Forever stamps, the Postal Service showcases some of the more visually compelling historic, full-disk images of the planets obtained during the last half-centruy of our space exploration. On July 14, 2015, New Horizons carried the stamp on its history-making journey to Pluto and beyond, as jubilant members of the mission team celebrated with a large print, striking the words “not yet.” The Pluto stamps are of special significance to the New Horizons team, which placed a 20-cent 1991 “Pluto: Not Yet Explored” stamp on board the spacecraft. This international gathering of stamp collectors occurs only once each decade in the United States, and – with more than 250,000 visitors expected to attend – is the largest stamp show in the world. The May 31 first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony for the Pluto and planetary stamps will be in New York City at the World Stamp Show. New “Pluto Explored” Forever stamps commemorating the July 2015 flyby of Pluto by our New Horizons spacecraft are also being issued for online purchase. The selvage is a montage of Saturn and several of its moons imaged by Voyager I in November 1980, courtesy of NASA.Coming in to a post office near you: new “Views of Our Planets: Forever stamps featuring iconic images of the planets in our solar system, including the well-known “Blue Marble” photo of Earth. They depict (clockwise from the top) an image of a solar eclipse from a satellite by Dan McCoy an illustrated cutaway view of the sun by artist Jim Lamb a digitally restored NASA image of sunrise from space, courtesy of Stock Solution an image made by Skylab on December 19, 1973, of a solar eruption, courtesy of Solar Physics Group/Naval Research Laboratory and a photograph from Earth of the sun in a partly cloudy sky by Craig Aurness, courtesy of Corbiss. These five stamps represent the exploration of our solar system and are the first pentagonal stamps ever issued by the U.S. These stamps, designed by Richard Sheaff of Scottsdale, Arizona, are based on different images of the Earth's sun, as described below. The Postal Service issued an Exploring the Solar System souvenir sheet featuring five 1-dollar commemorative stamps in Anaheim, California, on July 11, 2000. $1 Exploring the Solar System sheet of five Jill Piazza and Daniel Piazza, National Postal Museum Reference: Postal Bulletin (June 1, 2000) In the selvage is a digitally enhanced image from the Hubble Space Telescope depicting the gaseous pillars in the stellar nursery known as the Eagle Nebula, courtesy of the Space Telescope Science Institute. The 302-meter radio telescope at the National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is from a photograph by David Parker. The 100-inch Hooker Optical Telescope from Mount Wilson Observatory, near Pasadena, CA, is from a photograph by John Bedke, courtesy of Huntington Library. The optical telescopes from the National Science Foundation's Cerro Tololo Inter- American Observatory, east of La Serena, Chile, are from a photograph by Roger H. Keck Observatory on Manua Kea, HI, is from a photograph by David Nunuk. The image of the twin 10-meter optical and infrared telescopes at W.M. The radio interferometer is a photograph by David Nunuk depicting the National Science Foundation's very large array on the plains of San Agustin, west of Socorro, NM. The 2.4-meter optical telescope is a conceptual drawing of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope by artist Vincent Di Fate. These six stamps were issued in international rate denominations and address the exploration of deep space. The stamps, designed by Richard Sheaff of Scottsdale, Arizona, are based on photographs described below. The Postal Service issued a souvenir sheet featuring six individual 60-cent Probing the Vastness of Space commemorative stamps in Anaheim, California, on July 10, 2000. 60-cent Probing the Vastness of Space sheet of six
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