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2000 USA $11.75 stamp Apollo commemoration

2000 USA $11.75 

This souvenir sheet contains a holographic stamp (which shows up black on this scan) depicting a Lunar Module landing on the Moon. The background picture is of Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke at Plum Crater. 

SG: MS3832d

2004 Kazakhstan 50t stamp Luna 3 anniversary

2004 Kazakhstan 50 t 

Luna 3 looping around the Moon, photographing its far side and swinging back past Earth. 

SG: 433 

2007 China 1.20y stamp Chang'e

2007 China 1.20 y 

China’s first lunar orbiter, Chang’e 1, is shown on this stamp released at the end of 2007. An accompanying commemorative sheet featured a diagram of Chang’e’s trajectory. 

SG: 5231 

2008 Gibraltar stamp strip Apollo 11 anniversary

2008 Gibraltar 10 p, 17 p, 42 p, £2 

A strip of four stamps showing stages in the Apollo 11 mission, issued by Gibraltar to mark the 50th anniversary of the formation of NASA. They were part of a mini sheet, with a background image of the Moon.  

SG: MS1291 

2009 Romania 3L stamp Apollo 11 anniversary

2009 Romania 3 L 

Romania commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing with an attractive stamp showing astronaut Edwin Aldrin descending from the Lunar Module. Another circular stamp depicting Aldrin’s bootprint in the lunar soil, face value 14.5 L, formed the centrepiece of an accompanying mini sheet. 

SG: 6970 and MS6971 

Background image:

The waning crescent Moon. 

(European Southern Observatory


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