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Background information about Ascension Island Ascension Island

Ascension Island is part of Saint Helena, but maintains its own postal service.
Postal Administration: Ascension Island Post Office & Philatelic Bureau


Issue Date / Set Description Item Description
17 May 1965 - ITU Centennial ITU Insignia 3p
ITU Insignia 6p
7 November 1966 - Ascension Tracking Station Dish Antenna 4p
Dish Antenna 8p
Dish Antenna 1sh 3p
Dish Antenna 2sh 6p
15 February 1971 - Decimal Currency Issue Early Chinese Rockets
Early Arab Astronomers
Tycho Brahe
Galileo Galilei
Sir Isaac Newton
Chronometer
Friendship 7
Mount Palomar Observatory
Jodrell Bank Radiotelescope
Mariner 7
Sputnik 2
Gemini 4
Apollo Moon Landings
Future Space Station
20 March 1975 - Orbital Photography / Skylab Skylab / Ascension Island
Apollo CSM / Ascension Island
18 August 1975 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Overprints #144
#148
#149
4 July 1976 - American Bicentennial Bahamas Long Range Proving Ground
Devil’s Ashpit Station
Viking Lander
27 April 1978 - Ascension Island Station Dish Antennae (sheet of 10)
Dish Antennae (single)
15 September 1979 - Telecommunications Bringing Cable Ashore
Cable-laying Ship
Map
Cable-laying Ship
Dish Antenna
7 March 1986 - Halley’s Comet Newtonian Reflecting Telescope
Edmond Halley
Telescope / Comet
ICEE / Ascension Island Tracking Station
30 March 1987 - Demisemicentennial of Friendship 7 Ignition
Lift-Off
Re-entry
Splashdown
Capsule / NASA Worm Insignia
20 July 1989 - Vicennial of Apollo 11 Ascension Island Tracking Station
Apollo 7 Launch
Apollo 7 Insignia
Spent Rocket Stage
Lunar Landing Profile
30 September 1989 - Closing of Devil’s Ashpit Tracking Station Sheet of 10 (475a and 475b)
External View of Station
Space Shuttle Launch
9 September 1996 - Relay Station Anniversary Towers 20p
Towers 25p
Towers 30p
Satellite Dish / Towers 65p
23 September 1996 - Christmas 1996 Santa Claus On Satellite Dish
Santa Claus Golfing
Santa Claus On Beach
Santa Claus On Plane
Santa Claus On Ship
1 April 1997 - Flags of Ascension Island British Red Ensign / Tanker
RAF Ensign / Tristar
NASA Insignia / Shuttle Atlantis
Royal Navy White Ensign / HMS Northumberland
20 July 1999 - Trigentennial of Apollo 11 CSM In Facility
Gibbous Moon
Devil’s Ashpit Tracking Station
LM Liftoff
Earth From Space (souvenir sheet)
13 January 2003 - Ariane Downrange Tracking Station Add this issue to your shopping cart Ariane 4
Downrange Stations Map
ATV
Ariane 5
Add this issue to your shopping cart souvenir sheet of 4
12 August 2003 - Centennial of Powered Flight Add this issue to your shopping cart Bleriot XI
Vickers VC-10
BAe Harrier FRS Mk1
Westland Sea King HAS Mk 4
Rockwell Space Shuttle
General Dynamics F-16
Fairey Swordfish Mk II (souvenir sheet of 1)
28 October 2004 - Lunar Eclipse 15p
25p
35p
£1.25
souvenir sheet of 1
24 July 2006 - Anniversaries Add this issue to your shopping cart pair
HMS Beagle
Charles Darwin
pair
SS Great Britain
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
pair
Niña
Christopher Columbus
pair
Magnetic Map
Edmund Halley