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Nice cover from Belarus. Gracias Natasha !!

2012-01-15T19:38:00.001-03:00

Cover from Russia. Thank you Elena !

2011-10-02T11:38:00.001-03:00

Nice postcard from Russia. Thank you Irina !!!.

2011-08-13T13:51:00.001-03:00

Nice postcardr from Russia. Thank you Lena!!!

2011-08-07T15:38:00.001-03:00

2011-07-17T11:08:00.001-03:00

Nice card from Russia. Thank you Anna !

2011-07-10T13:22:00.002-03:00

Gherman Titov. Nice card form Soviet Union

2011-07-03T16:55:00.004-03:00

From Wikipedia:

Gherman Stepanovich Titov (Russian: Герман Степанович Титов) (September 11, 1935–September 20, 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut and, in 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1.

Titov flew the Vostok 2 mission launched on 6 August 1961. It lasted for 25.3 hours and he performed 17 orbits of the earth. His call sign was Eagle (Russian: Орёл). He landed close to the town of Krasny Kut in Saratov Oblast, Russia. A month short of 26 years old at launch, he remains the youngest person to fly in space.Titov was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, as were all the Soviet cosmonauts.

Nice cover from Belarus. Thank you Natasha!!!!

2011-05-25T18:43:00.006-03:00

From www.belpost.by:

Historical reference: The Games of the XXIX Olympiad were held in Beijing, the capital of China, on August 8-24, 2008.181 athletes represented Belarus. They took part in 26 events.

On June 2010 the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne resolved to repudiate the charges of doping against Vadim Devyatovskiy and Ivan Tsikhan and to return them the silver and bronze medals won at the Olympiad in Beijing.

After the Court resolution the Belarus team took the 15th place among 204 countries that participated in the Games.

30 Belarus athletes won 19 medals: 4 gold, 5 silver and 10 bronze

On this cover: No. 837 Prize winners of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing. Weightlifting 1000 BYR
No. 838 Prize winners of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing. Rowing and canoeing 1000 BYR

Nice first day cover from Portugal. Thank you Manuel !

2011-05-21T09:36:00.002-03:00

Plestek Cosmodrome. Thank you LENA !!!.

2011-04-27T18:18:00.006-03:00

From Wikipedia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome (Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian spaceport, located in Arkhangelsk Oblast, about 800 km north of Moscow and approximately 200 km south of Arkhangelsk.

Plesetsk Cosmodrome was originally developed by the Soviet Union as a launch site for intercontinental ballistic missiles. On January 11, 1957 the Soviet Government passed the resolution about the foundation of special military object with secret name “Angara”. This secret object had to be situated in Plesetsk District, Arhangelsk Oblast. It was named after the town of Plesetsk. The first Soviet Combat formation of intercontinental ballistic missiles R-7 of General designer Koroljev had to be located in that place, in thick northern taiga to the south of Arhangelsk. July 15, 1957, was the official birthday of the proving ground. That day Colonel Gregorjev assumed his post as the missile unit commander. By July 15, 1961, four missile complexes for ballistic missile R-7 were on combat patrol.

March 17, 1966, was the space birthday of Plesetsk. That day was the first missile launching of the rocket booster Vostok with space vehicle Cosmos 112. Since that time the rocket base Angara has become cosmodrome Plesetsk. Construction started in 1957 and it was declared operational for R-7 rockets in December 1959. The urban-type settlement of Plesetsk in Arkhangelsk Oblast had a railway station, essential for the transport of missile components. A new town for the support of the facility was named Mirny, Russian for "peaceful". By 1997, more than 1,500 launches to space had been made from the site, more than for any other launch facility, although the usage has declined significantly since the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Nice cover from Belarus. Thank you Natasha !!!

2011-03-06T16:55:00.006-03:00

From http://www.belpost/. by

On January 25, 2010 the Ministry of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus issued a souvenir sheet “XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver”.

Historical reference: The 2010 Winter Olympics will be held on February 12-28, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada. Belarus sportsmen participated in the following events: ice hockey, biathlon, freestyle skiing, cross country skiing, Alpine skiing, Nordic combined, speed skating.

Nice postcard from Russia.

2011-02-19T15:50:00.006-03:00

Postcard "Dog Laika". Artist E. Gundobin 1958. On November 3d, 1957 the first space traveler dog Laika made flight on the onboard of the second artificial Earth satellite. The posctard came with nice stamps too.

The Russian Post has issued a stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of the space trip of famous Soviet dogs Belka and Strelka.

From Wikipedia:Belka (Белка, literally, "squirrel") and Strelka (Стрелка, "Arrow") spent a day in space aboard Korabl-Sputnik-2 (Sputnik 5) on August 19, 1960 before safely returning to Earth.

They were accompanied by a grey rabbit, 42 mice, 2 rats, flies and a number of plants and fungi. All passengers survived. They were the first Earth-born creatures to go into orbit and return alive.

Strelka went on to have six puppies with a male dog named Pushok who participated in many ground-based space experiments, but never made it into space. One of the pups was named Pushinka (Пушинка, "Fluffy") and was presented to President John F. Kennedy's daughter Caroline by Nikita Khrushchev in 1961.

On the 25 of January the Russian Post issued a stamp to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mstislav Keldysh.

The stamp features a portrait of the scientist, the first artificial Earth satellite and Keldysh's formula (on the completeness of the eigenfunction).

Mstislav Keldysh was a Soviet scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics. He was one of the key figures behind Soviet space program. Among scientific circles of USSR Keldysh was known with epithet "the Chief Theoretician".

The crater Keldysh on the Moon, and a research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh are named after him. A minor planet, 2186 Keldysh discovered in 1973 by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh, is also named in his honor.

Nice cover from Holland. Thank you NIico!

2011-02-07T20:44:00.004-03:00

From Wikipedia:

The European Space Agency (ESA), established in 1975, is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 18 member states. Headquartered in Paris, ESA has a staff of more than 2,000 with an annual budget of about €3.6 billion in 2009.

ESA's space flight program includes human spaceflight, mainly through the participation in the International Space Station program, the launch and operations of unmanned exploration missions to other planets and the Moon, Earth observation, science, telecommunication as well as maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana, and designing launch vehicles. The main European launch vehicle Ariane 5 is operated through Arianespace with ESA sharing in the costs of launching and further developing this launch vehicle.

Sigmund Jähn. Thank you Lily !!

2011-02-05T11:03:00.004-03:00

From Wikipedia:

Sigmund Werner Paul Jähn (born 13 February 1937) is a German pilot who became the first German to fly in space as part of the Soviet Union's Intercosmos program

In 1976, Jähn was selected with his backup Eberhard Köllner for the Intercosmos program. He trained in Star City near Moscow for the next two years, and flew on board Soyuz 31 (launched 26 August 1978) to the Soviet space station Salyut 6, and returned on Soyuz 29, landing on 3 September 1978. He spent 7 days, 20 hours, and 49 minutes in space.

During and after the flight, he and the socialist authorities of the GDR pronounced him "the first German cosmonaut", which was remarkable, as in those days the East German state normally stressed that their people were "GDR citizens", to distinguish themselves from West Germany.

Nice cover from Switzerland. Thank you Verena !

2011-02-05T10:59:00.003-03:00

From Wikipedia:
113390 Helvetia is an asteroid. It was discovered by Markus Griesser on September 29, 2002. Its provisional name was 2002 SU₁₉. It bears the Latin name for Switzerland, where the asteroid was discovered; Helvetia is also an allegorical figure, symbol for the nation. It has an absolute magnitude of 15.4 and an orbital period of 1276.48 days.

Nice cover from Russia. Thank you very much Leina !!!!

2010-11-22T10:35:00.003-03:00

Nice URSS postcard. Thank you Leia !!!!!

2010-11-22T10:32:00.003-03:00

Moscow. View over the Kosmos Hotel.

Nice URSS postacard. Thank you Leia !!!!!

2010-11-22T10:26:00.003-03:00

Moscow

View over the TV TOwer at Ostankino and the monumnet commemorating the outstandig achievementes of the Soviet people in space exploration.

Nice Covers from Hungary.

2010-08-21T17:05:00.007-03:00

Nice cover from Holland. Thank you Roelof !!!

2010-08-01T17:43:00.002-03:00

From Wikipedia:

The 1988 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in West Germany. West Germany won the right to host the tournament with five votes ahead of a joint bid from Norway, Sweden and Denmark, who gained 1 vote, and a bid from England^. It was the eighth European Football Championship, which is held every four years and supported by UEFA. The final tournament took place between 10 June and 25 June 1988.

At the time, only eight countries could compete in the final tournament. Seven countries had to qualify for the final stage. West Germany qualified automatically as hosts of the event. The holders, France, failed to qualify. The tournament eventually crowned Netherlands as European champions for the first, and so far only time.

Euro 88 was a rare incidence of a major football tournament being completed without a single player being sent off, any knockout matches going into extra time or penalties and having at least one goal scored in every match.

Nice postcard from Russia

2010-07-17T17:43:00.003-03:00

This postcard commemorates the 25 anniversary of the first woman to take a spacewalk, the USSR cosmonaut Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya.

The Panathinaiko Stadium.

2010-07-17T17:39:00.001-03:00

The first Olympic Gmae were hel there in 1896. It was also used for the Olympic Games in 2004.

Nice souvenir sheet. Juri Gagarin

2010-04-17T19:07:00.002-03:00

Intercosmos. URSS - India.

2010-04-17T19:06:00.002-03:00

10 th Anniversary of the Vostok 1 fligth.

2010-04-17T19:03:00.004-03:00

Nice cover from Canada. Thank you Erik !!!

2010-03-09T19:33:00.004-03:00

Nice cover from Canada. Thank you Erik !!!

2010-03-09T19:29:00.003-03:00

Great Cover from Russia. Thank you Lena!!

2010-02-03T20:33:00.003-03:00

Juri Gagarin Monument. Thank you Sveta !!!!!!!

2010-02-02T19:50:00.002-03:00

Nice space Cover from Canada. Thank you Jimbo and Gus !

2010-01-20T22:39:00.002-03:00

Nice Olymplic cover from Georigia. Thank you Khatuna !!!

2010-01-11T21:39:00.001-03:00

A 3D Stamp from Finland. Thank you Marinanne !!!

2010-01-02T14:42:00.006-03:00

From de Finland Post Office (http://www.posti.fi/english/)

Alpine Skiing - moving pictures

On the four-stamp miniature sheet devoted to Alpine skiing, champions Antti Autti and Matti Räty perform dazzling jumps, while Tanja Poutiainen and Tapio “Arska” Saarimäki speed downhill.

The way the sheet is printed is based on a lens technology which combines multilevel images. When you move the stamp around in your hand, an illusion of movement is created. The production process is called MotionPrint imaging. These are 1st class non-value indicator stamps.

XX Anniversary Intercosmos. Cuba

2009-12-31T18:11:00.001-03:00

Nice set from Chile.

2009-12-31T18:10:00.001-03:00

Nice Souvenir Sheet from MACAO

2009-12-23T19:26:00.003-03:00

Nice Soviet Union Cover

2009-12-23T19:24:00.001-03:00

Nice Souvernir Sheet from Bulgaria

2009-12-23T16:59:00.005-03:00

Nice Souvenir Sheet from North Korea

2009-12-23T16:57:00.000-03:00

Nice souvenir sheet from North Korea

2009-12-23T16:52:00.001-03:00

Nice souvenir sheet from CISKEI (South Africa). Thank you Ruan !!

2009-12-19T18:05:00.000-03:00

Nice souvernir sheet from Namibia. Thank you Ruan !!

2009-12-15T18:37:00.006-03:00

Nice FDC. Thank you Khatuna !!

2009-12-12T11:09:00.004-03:00

The Chang Zheng 4A. Thank you Pu !!

2009-12-12T10:59:00.002-03:00

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Long March 4A, also known as the Chang Zheng 4A, CZ-4A and LM-4A, sometimes misidentified as the Long March 4 due to the lack of any such designated rocket, was a Chinese orbital carrier rocket. It was launched from Launch Complex 1 at the Taiyuan satellite Launch Centre. It was a 3-stage rocket, used for two launches in 1988 and 1990. On its maiden flight, on 6 September 1988, it placed the FY-1A weather satellite into orbit. On its second, and final, flight it launched another weather satellite, FY-1B.

It was replaced by a derivative, the Long March 4B, which first flew in 1999 . The Long March 4B offers a more powerful third stage, and a larger payload fairing.

Nice cover from Georgia. Thanks Khatuna !!!

2009-12-10T21:57:00.004-03:00

Nice cover from Georgia with Beijing 2008 complete set and Centenary of FIFA complete set.

The Centenary of FIFA set mentions four famous football players from Gerogia:

Boris Paichadze ( February 3, 1915 – October 9, 1990) was a renowned Gerogian footballer, who played for FC Dinamo Tbilisi.The largest stadium in Georgia, the Boris Paichadze Stadium in Tbilisi, is name after him.
Avtandil Nikolayevich Gogoberidze ( August 3, 1922 - November 20,1980) was a Soviet football player. He was a Grigory Fedotov Club member.
Mikheil Shalvovich Meskhi (12 January 1937 - 22 Aril 1991) was a Georgian footballer. Nicknamed the "Georgian Garrincha" for his dazzling wing play, Meskhi was a creative force on the left flank for the Soviet Union.
David Kipiani (November 18, 1951 - September 17, 2001) Was a famous Georgian football midfielder and manager. He played for FC Dinamo Tbilisi and Soviet Union National Team and also for a year for Lokomotiv Tbilsi.

National Aquatics Center. Thank you Pu !

2009-12-10T21:55:00.001-03:00

Vancouver 2010 Postcard from Canada. Thank you Mardi !!

2009-12-10T20:27:00.003-03:00

Nice postcard from Russia. Thank you Irina !!

2009-11-30T20:33:00.002-03:00

Nice astronautic theme cover. Thank you Anne!

2009-11-21T16:32:00.005-03:00

Nice cover from China.

2009-11-11T19:23:00.001-03:00

Nice Block from South Africa. Thank you Ruan!

2009-11-11T19:18:00.005-03:00

Postcard form URSS to Argentina.

2009-11-01T12:19:00.005-03:00

Nice view of the Kremlin.

The postcard is postmarked 30-06-67. One of the stamps commemorate de Vostok 1 flight, the first human flight (Juri Gagarin).

Nice Cover from Nicaragua. Thank you Jean-Michael!

2009-10-18T10:09:00.005-03:00

Nice cover from Fujeira to USA

2009-10-10T09:35:00.005-03:00

On 9th May 1970 the Post Office of Fujeira issued a multicolored series of seven stamps depicting the achievements of the exploration of the Moon.

Nice DDR Cover. Valentina Tereschcova. 13/11/63

2009-10-09T23:53:00.005-03:00

Nice cover from Estonia. Thank you Helle !

2009-09-15T21:19:00.006-03:00

F1 Cover from Finland

2009-09-13T19:43:00.003-03:00

Space Shuttle Columbia. Thank you Judy !

2009-08-23T23:32:00.002-03:00

Against a hazy summer sky, the Space Shuttle Columbia hurtles into space atop a column of flame.

International Space Station. Thank you Judy !!

2009-08-23T23:28:00.002-03:00

This digital image shows the International Space Station (ISS) passing over Florida. The completed station will be powered by almos an acre of solar panels and have a mass of almost one million pounds. The pressurised volume of the station will be roughly equivalent to the space inside two jumbo jets.

Apollo 15. Thank you Judy !!

2009-08-23T23:23:00.003-03:00

An Apollo lunar module pilot, gives a military salute while standing beside the deployed U.S. flag during the Apollo 15 lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Hadly-Apennine landing site. The Lunar Module "Falcon" is partially visible on the right.

Apollo 11. Nice postcard. Thank you Judy !!

2009-08-23T23:19:00.002-03:00

This spectacular launch of the Apollo 11 / Saturn V rocket, from launch complex 39-A, sends the crew of Apollo 11 to the moon.

Space Shuttle Atlantis. Thank you Judy !!

2009-08-23T14:27:00.002-03:00

The waters near Launch Pad 39B reflect the brilliant red and orange flames form the solid rocket boasters as Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on its mission to the International Space Station.

Space Shuttle Endeavour. Thank you Judy !!

2009-08-23T14:21:00.002-03:00

Launch of The Space Shuttle Endeavor from launch pad 29B at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Space Shuttle Endeavour. Thank you Judy !

2009-08-23T14:09:00.004-03:00

Twin columms of flame flow from the solid rocket boosters, lighting the billows of steam behind them with an orange glow, as the Space Shuttle Endeavour roars into space on its next mission.

Blazing into the night sky, the Space Shuttle Endeavour embarks on its next mission from Launch Pad 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida

An Earth view from de Moon. Thank you Judy!!

2009-08-23T14:03:00.005-03:00

The view from the Apollo 11 spacecraft shows the Earth rising above the Moon´s horizon. The lunar terrarin pictured is in the area of Smyth´s Sea on the near side. Coordinates of the center of the terrarin are 85 degrees east longitude and 2 degrees north.

Goddard Space Flight Center. Thank you Judy !

2009-08-23T11:12:00.005-03:00

NASA´s global comunications system (NASCOM) is controlled from this area at Goddard Space Flight Center.

This is the operations control center for both of Goddard Space Flight Center´s tracking networks.

Robert Goddard. Thank you Judy !!

2009-08-22T19:59:00.007-03:00

Dr. Robert H. Goddard, the foremost pioneer in the field of rocketry was responsible for the first successful launch of a liquid fueled rocket on March 12th, 1926.

Dr. Goddard was born in 1882 in Massachusetts, he carried out rocket development there and in New Mexico. He died in August of 1945 berfore his research was universally recognized.

Nice cover from Cyprus. Thank you Nasia !

2009-08-21T20:09:00.007-03:00

Cuba Aerogramme to Argentina

2009-07-12T13:53:00.001-03:00

Intercosmos Hungary

2009-07-09T17:31:00.009-03:00

URSS Beautiful registered cover to Argentina

ИнтерКосмос was a Soviet progam that included manned missions to space. The participants countries were Soviet allieds from the Warsow Pact and countries like France and India. Between 1978 and 1988 there were fourteen internacional crews.

On May 26, 1980 Bertalan Farkas from Hungary went to space in the Soyuz 36 mission. These stamps were dedicated to this mission.

Romania Cover to Argentina

2009-07-09T17:24:00.005-03:00

Cuba Maxicards - España 82

2009-07-09T12:16:00.003-03:00

Russia Cover to Argentina - Thank you Alexander !

2009-07-03T21:28:00.005-03:00

FDC from China

2009-06-28T19:36:00.002-03:00

Argentina 78 FDC from Monaco

2009-06-28T19:31:00.002-03:00

Valentina Tereshkova

2009-06-28T14:28:00.009-03:00

Cuba - Registered Cover to Argentina

From Wikipedia: Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Валентина Владимировна Терешкова; born 6 March 1937) is the first woman in space, now a retired Soviet cosmonaut. Out of more than four hundred applicants and then out of five finalists, she was selected to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963 and become the first woman to fly in space. On this mission, lasting almost three days in space, she performed various tests on herself to collect data on the female body's reaction to spaceflight.

Souvernir sheet from Bulgaria

Before being recruited as a cosmonaut, Tereshkova was a textile-factory assembly worker and an amateur parachutist. After the female cosmonaut group was dissolved in 1969, she became a prominent member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, holding various political offices. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, she retired from politics but remains revered as a hero in Russia.

Cover from Czech Republic to Argentina

2009-06-27T15:56:00.003-03:00

Sweden 1958 World Cup

2009-06-21T10:13:00.006-03:00

Addressed First Day Cover

Space Shuttle Orbitor Discovery Thanks Judy !!

2009-06-21T10:06:00.002-03:00

Olympic Games Berlín 1936

2009-06-17T20:46:00.012-03:00

They were the XI edition of the Summer Olympic Games in the Modern Era. They were held in Berlin, Germany, between August 1 and August 16, 1936.

The city of Berlin won the bid to host the Games in May of 1931 (over Barcelona City), more than one year before the appointment of Adolf Hitler as the Chancellor of Germany. Spain didn´t participate in the Games and, at the firt, the team of the United States had the intention of boycott the Games, but finally they opted for participating.

The Berlin Swimming Stadium- Used Postcard

Olympic and Nazi Postmarks

Hitler took advantage of the Games to shou the world the magnificence of the Nazism and entrusted an elaborate advertising progam to the minister of publicity Joseph Goebbels who at the the same time entrusted the upt in scene to Albert Speer and the supervision of filming to the photographer Leni Riefenstahl. In August 1, during the ignauguration of the Olympic Games of Berlin, like asample of the greatness, the Hindenmbug, flew over the Olympic Satdium moments before the apparition of Hitler.

Germany won the Games with 33 gold medals, 26 silver medals and 30 bronze medals.

Berlin 1936 Postcard with Hindenburg Postmark

2009-06-17T19:07:00.005-03:00

Barcelona 1992

2009-06-16T23:06:00.003-03:00

Addressed Firs Day Cover to Argentina

Melbourne 1956

2009-06-13T17:29:00.001-03:00

A cover from Czech Republic

Melbourne 1956

2009-06-13T17:11:00.003-03:00

Addressed First Day Cover from Australia

The XVI Olympic Games were celebrated in 1956 in Melbourne, Australia, although the equestrian events could not be carried out in that country due to the rules of quarantine. Because of it, they were carried out in Stockholm, Sweden. It was the first occasion, and the unique one up to now, in which same Olympic games were celebrated in different countries. Melbourne was chosen like the host above rival as Buenos Aires (Argentina), Mexico City and six cities of the United States of America.

Australia obtained the third place with 13 gold medals, 8 silver medals and 14 bronze medals.

My prefered postcard

2009-06-12T21:58:00.004-03:00

This is an used postcard from the Panathinaiko Stadium, Athens. It is the only major stadium in the world built fully of white marble.

It is a very interesting postcard because, the sender mention something about "...the olympics games next year...".

The problem here is that the postmark is dated FEB - 14 - 1909 so, according to my research, the sender was referring to the Intercalated Olympic Games that had been planned for 1910.

In 1901, the IOC decided that each four years, between two Olympic Games, some Games were carried in Athens. After the succes of the Olympic Games of 1896, Athens was enthusiastic in carrying out new a Game, but it was a lot of pressure and work to carry out thes games each four years.

When the Games of Paris 1900 and St. Louis 1904 were completely darkened by the World´s Fair, Athens appeared like a salvation for the Olymplic Movement, for which the second play in Athens was organized in 1906.

Nevertheless, Athens decided that was not capable of organizing other Games for 1910 (due the Balcan´s conflict) and already for 1914 there was much less support to produce them. Finally, the First World War put an end to this idea. But eighty years later, the idea revived when was decided that the Olympic Games of Winter were carried out.

Challenger

2009-06-12T19:49:00.002-03:00

Fifth Anniversary of the Challenger Shutle Mission 1986

At about 11:30 AM, Eastern Time, January 28, 1986, the Shuttle Challenger was launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Aboard the ship were its Commander, Francis R. Scobee, its pilot, Michael J. Smith, and its crew, Christa McAuliffe (the first 'Teacher in Space'), Mission Specialists Ellison S. Onizuka, Judith A. Resnick and Ronald E. McNair, along with Payload Specialist Gregory B. Jarvis.

Seventy-three seconds into the mission, the Challenger exploded and fell into the sea. On April 29, 1986 the identified remains that had been located were turned over to their families for burial. However, there were number of unidentified remains. These remains were buried at Arlington National Cemetery on May 20, 1986.

Cover - URSS to Argentina 1990

2009-06-12T19:45:00.000-03:00

Another Cover from U.R.S.S.

Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky

2009-06-09T18:48:00.000-03:00

Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (Константин Эдуардович Циолковский). He was born in Ryazan (South of Moscu) in 1857. He was a scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory. He died in 1935.

Interesting envelope commemorating the 130 anniversary of Tisolkovsky´s birth.

In his most important work, "The exploration of the cosmic space through the reaction engines" (1903), anticipated the theories of the modern astronautics and exposed for the first time the possibility to travel through the space through the propulsion of the reaction rockets.

Intercosmos - Mongolia

2009-06-08T23:15:00.000-03:00

ИнтерКосмос was a Soviet program that included manned missions to space. The participant countries were Soviet allieds from the Warsow Pact and countries like France and India. Between 1978 and 1988 there were fourteen international crews.

On March 23, 1981 Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha from Mongolia went to space whith the Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov in the Mission Soyus 39.

Beautiful register cover from URSS to Argentina (1990)

Three stamps were dedicated to the "Intercosmos URSS-Mongolia" with face values of 6, 15 and 32 kops., issued in 1981.

Chernuchka Cosmonaut Dog

2009-06-06T15:53:00.001-03:00

Although many soviet dogs died in their flights to the space, some of them returned alive. One of the Soviet space dogs was Chernuchka (Чернyшка). The Spunik missions of the 3/9/1961 (with Chernuchka) and 3/25/1961 (with Zvezdochka) were a complete success.

Three week after, the Vostok 1 carried the first cosmonaut of the world, Jury Gagarin.

URSS postcard sent to DDR (Deutsche Democratic Republic) in 1961

Laika The First Animal in Orbit the Earth

2009-06-06T15:33:00.003-03:00

The dog Laika (Лайка), was the first alive animal in orbiting the Earth. She did it in the Soviet Sputnik 2 on the 3/11/1957, a month after the first satellite Sputnik 1 was put into orbit.

Like other animals in the sapce, Laika died betwen five and sevent hours after the lunch, long before it was planned.

This cover is from Romania

Saturno Postcard from Finland

2009-06-05T20:59:00.002-03:00

This postcard was send by AKKI a postcrossing friend from FINLAND. Thank you AKKI!.

The cover has space stamps too.

Apollo 11 - First Day Cover

2009-06-02T20:24:00.001-03:00

A postcard from Johson Space Center Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin jr., lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the Moon near a leg of the Lunar Module during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this picture with a 70mm lunar surface camera.

Cover - URSS to Argentina 1990

2009-06-01T22:33:00.003-03:00

Shenzhou VII - China´s first spacewalk

2009-06-01T19:53:00.001-03:00

A postcrossing postcard from China. Thank you Lin !.

Juri Gagarin - Postcard from Bulgaria

2009-06-01T19:26:00.002-03:00

Cover from Bulgaria -1990

2009-05-31T20:20:00.008-03:00

2009-05-31T19:34:00.007-03:00

This postcard is from U.R.S.S. - Jury Gagarin -