20 July 2020

Moon Landing


This is Phobos, one of Mars' moons.
Last year the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the First Moon Landing with the issue of several stamps.

Early this year, I received some of them, on a letter sent by Phillip (the USA), on a thematic recycled envelope. (See on his blog.) 

The stamp on the middle shows the Sea of Tranquility, the site where the lunar module, Eagle, landed. 



And a French stamp features also one of the most ionic pictures of the event: the first steps on the Moon.



How many famous astronomers do you know?
Wang Zhenyi (1768-1797)

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Vera Rubin (1928-2016)


The stamps on thes envelopes are very appropriate, as they belongs to the Spacious Skies part of the O Beautiful stamps:




8 comments:

  1. I'm glad to see all of these traveled well. Good to see the potato again :)

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    1. It took me a while to post the potato!:)
      Thanks again.

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    2. One of the few times I posted the before picture before you posted the after picture.

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  2. The Google doodle today celebrates Turkish astrophysicist Dilhan Eryurt.

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  3. This looks like a fascinating series - both the skies and the astronomers.

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Thank you for coming. All your comments make me extremely happy.