USA 1999

Apollo 11

USA 1999 stamp Apollo 11

Commemorating the first manned landing on the Moon with an image of Buzz Aldrin’s boot print in the lunar dust – and it is Aldrin’s print, not Armstrong’s, as photographed by Aldrin himself. This stamp was part of a millennium series recalling events of the 1960s. A description of each subject was printed under the gum on the back of each stamp: 

USA 1999 stamp Apollo 11 reverse

Stanley Gibbons catalogue number:

3654 





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