Tuesday 20 August 2019

Stamps with Metals affixed - Update

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Liechtenstein 2019 50 years moon landing - Anniversary stamp with the Apollo spaceship made of titanium attached



Issue date 21 May 2019

A special issue Personal stamp created by the a Philatelic company Hermann E Sieger GmbH as part of a subscription service, and issued by Liechtenstein Post, the anniversary stamp with the Apollo spaceship made of titanium! 

This edition is the number 2 of their three-part series, finished with a detailed, reduced replica of the Apollo spaceship made of fine titanium. 

In the original, it consisted exactly of two parts: the capsule, called command module, in which the three astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins took place, and the supply unit, called service module, with the fuel cells for the power supply, batteries, oxygen and fuel tanks and of course the mighty rocket engine including the 18 small control nozzles. The construction is a total of 11 meters long, has a diameter of 3.90 meters and weighs about 30 tons.

The anniversary stamp shows the spaceship with the command capsule "Columbia" during the lunar orbit - on board Michael Collins, while his two colleagues landed on the moon with the lunar module "Eagle".

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