East Germany 1966   

Luna 9 

East Germany 1966 stamp Luna 9

Luna 9, the first successful Moon lander, on the lunar surface. The surrounding steep hills are purely for artistic purposes, as the actual site was flat and featureless, and in reality the Earth would have been much higher in the sky than shown here. 

Stanley Gibbons catalogue number: 

E886 


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