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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Mercury Project and MESSENGER Mission
May 23rd, 2011 
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1,651 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 889 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. [...]
Karl Golsdorf’s 150th birthday
March 29th, 2011 srmodh 1,385 views“You can’t save a ton of weight on a locomotive – but you can save a kilo in a thousand places” – this quotation from Karl Golsdorf illustrates pointedly the extreme creativity which the famous Austrian engineer and designer used to seek out outstanding technical solutions. Karl Golsdorf (1861 to 1916) was introduced to the [...]
Cars – Puch 500
March 27th, 2011 srmodh 1,170 viewsAustria post issued a stamp featuring Puch 500 in the car series stamps. As for the history: The “Puch Works”, founded in 1899 by a certain Johann Puch, was an Austrian company that produced bicycles, engines, motorbikes, and cars. Johann Puch’s first small production workshop was located in the Strauchergasse in Graz, but a few [...]
Motorbikes – Apfelbeck
March 21st, 2011 srmodh 1,238 viewsJust two years after releasing the R100, the first KTM motorbike, the Mattighofen based company launched itself in the image-conscious sport of road racing in 1955. At that time four-stroke engines were a much more promising basis for success in constructing a racing machine than the robust two-stroke engines of the endurance sport (nowadays called [...]
