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Date of Issue - July 11, 2000
Place of Issue - Anaheim, California
This souvenir sheet issued by
the U.S. Postal Service
celebrates the Solar System
and features the first five-
sided, hexagonal, stamps in
United States postal history.
These $1 stamps present an
image of a solar eclipse from
a satellite, an illustrated
cutaway view of the sun, a
digitally restored NASA
image of sunrise from space,
an image of a solar eruption
taken by Skylab and a photo
from Earth of the sun in a
partly cloudy sky.
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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