Celebrating 50 years of flight first man in outer space (Yuri Gagarin), the 30th anniversary of the flight of the first Romanian in the Cosmos (Dumitru Dorin Prunariu) and 50 years after the first session of COPUOS (Committee for Use of UN peaceful outer space), enter into service Romfilatelia issue postage stamps entitled COSMOS 2011. [...]
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Zodiac – Romania
May 27th, 2011 
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1,785 viewsOur planet, Earth, is part of a solar system composed of several planets, which is done rotating around a central star called Ra, the Sun’s real name. He is a star of the second size in a scale of values ??from 1-6, the measured brightness (star is the lowest grade 6). The movements of the [...]
Mercury Project and MESSENGER Mission
May 23rd, 2011 srmodh 1,349 viewsThe Postal Service, in Kennedy Space Center, Florida, issued a Mercury Project/MESSENGER Mission se-tenant pair commemorative stamp. One stamp commemorates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Project Mercury, America’s first manned spaceflight program, and NASA astronaut Alan Shepard’s historic flight on May 5, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Freedom 7. The other stamp draws attention [...]
50th anniversary of first men in space
April 28th, 2011 srmodh 760 viewsThe Soviet Union Aboard the Vostok 1 spaceship, the cosmonaut Jurij Gagarin (1934 –1968) makes the first orbital flight around the Earth and then lands in the Saratov region. He leaves the space capsule, which brought him safe and sound through the atmosphere, with an ejection seat and ends his historical space flight by parachute. [...]
Europa 2009-International Year of Astronomy
June 10th, 2009 srmodh 776 viewsTitle: Europa 2009-International Year of Astronomy Date of Issue: 12 June 2009 Country: Norway Denominations: NOK 10.00 – NOK 12.00 In 2009, it is 400 years since Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) pointed a telescope at the sky and saw that the Earth was only one of many planets and not the centre of the universe. His [...]
Europa “Astronomy”
June 8th, 2009 srmodh 674 viewsTitle: Europa “Astronomy” Date of Issue: 28 May 2009 Country: Guernsey Denominations: 36p, 43p, 51p, 54p, 56p, 77p Early civilizations recognized only five planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn — the ones bright enough to show up easily to the naked eye. It wasn’t until after the invention of the telescope in 1608 [...]
