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Date of Issue - October 1, 1991
Place of Issue - Pasadena, California, home of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
On October 1st, 1991 the U.S. Postal Service issued a booket of 10 different
setenent space stamps, (two horizontal strips of five stamps joined together vertically
and horizontally). Each stamp had a face value of 29 cents.
The stamps were issued for National Stamp Collecting Month and commemorated
the successful exploration of the 8 of the 9 planets in our Solar System, plus the
Earth's satellite, and the Moon by U.S. spacecrafts.
The themes are:
#2568: Planet Mercury/Mariner 10 Spacecraft.
#2569: Planet Venus/Mariner 2 Spacecraft.
#2570: Planet Earth/Landsat Spacecraft.
#2571: Planet Earth's Moon/Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft.
#2572: Planet Mars/Viking Orbiter Spacecraft.
#2573: Planet Jupiter/Pioneer 11 Spacecraft.
#2574: Planet Saturn/Voyager 2 Spacecraft.
#2575: Planet Uranus/Voyager 2 Spacecraft.
#2576: Planet Neptune/Voyager 2 Spacecraft.
#2577: Planet Pluto/Not yet Explored
1948 3¢ Mount Palomar
1960 4¢ Echo 1
1962 4¢ Project Mercury
1964 8¢ Robert Goddard Airmail
1967 5¢ Space Walk/Gemini
1969 6¢ Apollo 8
1969 10¢ Moon Landing Airmail
1971 8¢ Decade of Achievement
1974 10¢ Skylab
1975 10¢ Mariner 10
1975 10¢ Pioneer 10
1975 10¢ Apollo-Soyuz
1978 15¢ Viking missions to Mars
1981 18¢ Space Achievement
1991 29¢ Space Exploration
1992 29¢ Int. Cooperation
1992 29¢ Theodore von Karman
1994 29¢ Apollo 11 25th Anniv.
1997 $3.00 Mars Pathfinder
1998 32¢ Space Discovery
1999 33¢ Edwin Hubble
2000 $11.75 Lunar Hologram
2000 $3.20 Shuttle Hologram
2000 60¢ Vastness of Space
2000 $1.00 Solar System
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