Being of a certain age, space exploration and a certain hopefulness about it (unity of all mankind, does anyone remember?) were definitely part of my childhood.
The original series was the best (imho)!
inside cover
Loved the “beaming” – and believed it would happen in reality soon
Little me collected stamps, too.., so here are a few for your kind consideration:
From a 1963 set of Russian and American Spacecrafts Left: Konstanty Ciolkowski’s formula which appeared in his 1903 (!) publication: “Exploration of Outer Space by Means of Rocket Devices”. It proved for the first time that a rocket could perform space flight. Right: Explorer 1 (first satellite launched by the United States, part of the U.S. participation in the International Geophysical Year – 1958.)
On Oct. 4, 1957, Sputnik 1 successfully launched and entered Earth’s orbit. The successful launch gave the then Soviet Union the distinction of putting the first human-made object into space. The word ‘Sputnik’ originally meant ‘fellow traveler,’ but has become synonymous with ‘satellite’ in modern Russian.
1959: Luna 2 was the sixth of the Soviet Union’s Luna programme spacecraft launched to the Moon.
Commemorating the world’s first joint space flight (1962) – Soviet spacecrafts Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 . Cosmonauts: Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev and Pavel Romanovich Popovich.
Valery Bykovsky and Vostok 5 – 1963
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (the 1st woman in space!) and Vostok 6 – 1963
Lunokhod (Moonwalker) 1 was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world (on the moon, in 1970)
Days of Soviet Science and Technology in the GDR – “Start into Cosmos” (1973)
Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, 1975 (U.S.A. and Soviet Union cooperation)
Interplanetary Probes, ca. 1975 (sorry that’s all I know about this one)
I leave you with my favourite version of an appropriate song – enjoy! (Warning: it’s from 1985…)
Happy 50th moon landing! That Star Trek book is cool, but it’s the space stamps I love the most and you have some wonderful examples there. Like you I was captivated as a kid by space travel. I have a small collection of space stamps that I hope to add to eventually. I still have my 80s Stanley Gibbons album, but its the space stamps I like the most from it. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Happy 50th moon landing! That Star Trek book is cool, but it’s the space stamps I love the most and you have some wonderful examples there. Like you I was captivated as a kid by space travel. I have a small collection of space stamps that I hope to add to eventually. I still have my 80s Stanley Gibbons album, but its the space stamps I like the most from it. Thanks for sharing 🙂
… and, your space stamps just inspired me to search out a few of mine and make an Apollo moon and space celebration post too! Thank you 🙂
Thank you so much for your kind and enthusiastic comments – I am humbled x
Thank you! An inspirational post that got me thinking about stamps (and Star Trek) :)x
LOVE it !!! Thank you !