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Issued in 1964, this stamp has an
engraved portait of Robert
Goddard to the left, and a launch
of a Mercury/Atlas rocket to the
right. This is the first U.S. airmail
stamp
Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-
1945) was an American pioneer of rocket
research, he laid the technical and theoretical
foundations for many of the developments in
long-range rockets, missiles, satellites and space
flight, which collectively put us into the Space
Age. Widely recognized as a gifted
experimenter and engineering genius, his rockets
were many years ahead of their time. He died in
1945 holding over 200 patents in rocket
technology. A liquid fuel rocket constructed on
principles developed by Goddard landed
humans on the Moon in 1969.
Date of Issue: October 4, 1964
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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