U.S. space exploration history on U.S. stamps | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 26/12/2018

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00:01:33 1 Fort Bliss 100th Anniversary Issue of 1948
00:03:41 2 Project ECHO I, Issue of 1960
00:06:04 3 Project Mercury Issue of 1962
00:08:19 4 Robert H. Goddard Issue of 1964
00:10:52 5 Accomplishments in Space Commemorative Issue of 1967
00:13:01 6 Apollo VIII Issue of 1969
00:14:56 7 First Man on Moon Commemorative Issue of 1969
00:16:30 8 Space Achievement Decade Issue of 1971
00:17:46 9 Skylab Issue of 1974
00:19:23 10 Pioneer Commemorative Issue of 1975
00:21:00 11 iMariner 10/i Issue of 1975
00:22:48 12 Apollo&#8211;Soyuz Commemorative Issue of 1975
00:24:36 13 Viking Mission to Mars, Issue of 1978
00:26:13 14 Space Achievement Issue
00:27:20 15 Space Shuttle Issues
00:29:23 16 See also
00:29:53 17 Further reading



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With the advent of unmanned and manned space flight a new era of American history had presented itself. Keeping with the tradition of honoring the country's history on U.S. postage stamps, the U.S. Post Office began honoring the various events with its commemorative postage stamp issues.  The first U.S. Postage issue to depict a U.S. space vehicle was issued in 1948, the Fort Bliss issue. The first issue to commemorate a space project by name was the ECHO I communications satellite commemorative issue of 1960.  Next was the Project Mercury issue of 1962. As U.S. space exploration progressed a variety of other commemorative issues followed, many of which bear accurate depictions of satellites, space capsules, lunar modules, space suits, and other items of interest.Space exploration history is a popular topic, as record numbers of First-Day covers for postage stamps with space themes will attest.  The Project Mercury issue of 1962 had more than three million 'First Day of Issue' cancellations, while the average number of First-Day cancels for other commemorative issues at that time was around half a million. In 1969, the Apollo VIII issue received 900,000 First-Day cancels while others received less than half this amount. As the advent of U.S. space exploration grew, so did the topic of Space Exploration on stamps.