Exploring the Moon
on stamps
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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 50 t
Luna 3 looping around the Moon, photographing its far side and swinging back past Earth.
SG: 433
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 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 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