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May 2008

Some of these are brand new items, and some are reworked old content (large blocks and sheets split up so that I can provide magnifications).

Issue Date / Set Description Item Description
Marshall Islands, 23 December 1988 - Trigentennial of NASA Launch
Re-Entry of Lifting Body Craft
Landing
Shuttle
strip of 4
Marshall Islands, 1 August 1989 - Vicennial of Apollo 11 Launch
Neil Armstrong
LM
Michael Collins
Raising the Flag
Buzz Aldrin
First Step On Moon
booklet pane of 7
Marshall Islands, 24 November 1989 - Milestones In Space Exploration sheet of 25
Robert H. Goddard
Sputnik 1
Explorer 1
Yuri Gagarin
John Glenn
Valentina Tereshkova
Alexei Leonov
Edward H. White
Gemini 7 / 8
Luna 9
Gemini 8
Venera 1
Apollo 8
Apollo 11
Soyuz 11
Apollo 15
Skylab
Pioneer 10 At Jupiter
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Viking 1
Pioneer 11 At Saturn
Shuttle Columbia
Pioneer 11 Leaves Solar System
Untethered Space Walk
Shuttle Discovery
Marshall Islands, 23 May 1992 - Voyages of Discovery Sailing Vessel
Santa Maria
Argo Navis
Islander / Sailing Vessel
Columbus / Santa Maria
Astronaut / Argo Navis
Columbus / Islander / Astronaut
booklet pane of 7
Marshall Islands, 17 July 2001 - Signs of the Zodiac sheet of 12
Aries
Taurus
Gemini
Cancer
Leo
Virgo
Libra
Scorpius
Sagittarius
Capricorn
Aquarius
Pisces
United States of America, 25 May 2007 - Star Wars sheet of 15
Darth Vader
Millennium Falcon
Emperor Palpatine
Anakin Skywalker / Obi-Wan Kenobi
Luke Skywalker
Princess Leia / R2-D2
C-3PO
Queen Padmé Amidala
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Boba Fett
Darth Maul
Chewbacca / Han Solo
X-Wing Starfighter
Yoda
Imperial Stormtroopers
United States of America, 25 October 2007 - Yoda Yoda


April 2008

Issue Date / Set Description Item Description
Ajman, circa July 1970 - Gemini / Apollo Gemini 4 Launch
Apollo 7 Launch
Cape Kennedy
Gemini 4 Spacewalk
Footprint
Saturn V
Buzz Aldrin
Cape Kennedy / Launch Pad
Apollo 11 Launch
Aldrin On Moon
Apollo 8 Launch
Moon
Earth
Apollo 7
Sunrise At Launch Pad
Apollo 10
Apollo 7 Launch (airmail)
Apollo 8 CM (airmail)
Apollo 9 (airmail)
Apollo 11 Launch (airmail)
#593
#594
#595
#596
#597
#598
#599
#600
#601
#602
#603
#604
#605
#606
#607
#608
Ajman, circa July 1970 - Apollo 13 Crew
Launch
Third Stage / LM
LM Descending
Moonwalkers / Flag
Recovery
Swigert / Insignia
souvenir sheet of 1 (#567)
souvenir sheet of 1 (#567) (imperforate)
Ajman, 25 January 1971 - Project Mars Tycho Brahe
Nuclear Rocket
Landing On Mars
Leaving Mars
Project Deimos
Mariner 4
Tycho Brahe (imperforate)
Nuclear Rocket (imperforate)
Landing On Mars (imperforate)
Leaving Mars (imperforate)
Project Deimos (imperforate)
Mariner 4 (imperforate)
Trajectory (airmail)
souvenir sheet of 1 (#684)
souvenir sheet of 1 (#684) (imperforate)
Ajman, 31 March 1973 - American Space Achievements sheet of 16
LM Descending
Surveyor
Gemini Recovery
Werner von Braun
Moonwalker Descending LM Ladder
Apollo 11 Crew
Rocket Assembly
Gemini Spacecraft
Flag / Moonwalker
Apollo Launch
Saturn V Rollout
Gemini Astronauts Entering Spacecraft
Moonwalker
CSM Viewed Through LM Window
Staging
Spacewalker
sheet of 16 (imperforate)
LM Descending (imperforate)
Surveyor (imperforate)
Gemini Recovery (imperforate)
Werner von Braun (imperforate)
Moonwalker Descending LM Ladder (imperforate)
Apollo 11 Crew (imperforate)
Rocket Assembly (imperforate)
Gemini Spacecraft (imperforate)
Flag / Moonwalker (imperforate)
Apollo Launch (imperforate)
Saturn V Rollout (imperforate)
Gemini Astronauts Entering Spacecraft (imperforate)
Moonwalker (imperforate)
CSM Viewed Through LM Window (imperforate)
Staging (imperforate)
Spacewalker (imperforate)
Ajman, 31 March 1973 - Space Exploration (sheet of 8 with 8 labels) Satellite
Rocket On Pad
Satellite
Satellite
Satellite Dish
Rocket Launch
Rocket Ascending
Satellite
Satellite (imperforate)
Rocket On Pad (imperforate)
Satellite (imperforate)
Satellite (imperforate)
Satellite Dish (imperforate)
Rocket Launch (imperforate)
Rocket Ascending (imperforate)
Satellite (imperforate)
Antigua and Barbuda, circa 2006 - Space Achievements Add this issue to your shopping cart STS-1 (sheet of 6)
JSC Shuttle Mission Simulator
Crew In Classroom
STS-1 On Launch Pad
Launch
Shuttle Columbia Landing
Shuttle Columbia On Runway
Add this issue to your shopping cart Luna 9 (sheet of 4)
Launch Vehicle
Luna 9
Images Taken of the Moon
Landing Capsule
Add this issue to your shopping cart Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (sheet of 4)
Apollo Crew Boarding Crew Transfer Van
Handshake In Space
Plaque
Recovery of Crew
Add this issue to your shopping cart Back To the Moon (souvenir sheet of 1)
Add this issue to your shopping cart Calipso (souvenir sheet of 1)
Add this issue to your shopping cart Mir Space Station (souvenir sheet of 1)
Bequia, 27 September 2006 - Space Achievements Add this issue to your shopping cart Luna 9 (sheet of 6)
Left Half
Right Half
Top Half
Luna 9 In Space
Bottom Half
Probe On Moon
Add this issue to your shopping cart Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (sheet of 4)
Assembly (white caption)
Assembly (black caption)
Mission Insignia
Spacecraft Faring
Viking 1 Orbiter (souvenir sheet of 1)
Add this issue to your shopping cart International Space Station (souvenir sheet of 1)
Grenada, 27 June 2005 - EXPO 2005 sheet of 6
Victoria Falls
Bald Eagle
Coral Reef
Childbirth
Moonwalker / Flag
Pollination
Grenada Grenadines, 14 September 2006 - Space Achievements Add this issue to your shopping cart STS-1 (sheet of 6)
STS-1 On Launch Pad
John Young / Robert Crippen
Lift-off
STS-1 In Orbit
Crew In Cockpit
Landing
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (sheet of 4)
Soyuz 19 Launch
Crews
Crew In Space
Soyuz 19
Add this issue to your shopping cart STS-114 (sheet of 4)
STS-114 On Launch Pad
Crew
International Space Station / Shuttle Discovery
EVA
Add this issue to your shopping cart Luna 9 (souvenir sheet of 1)
Add this issue to your shopping cart Venus Express (souvenir sheet of 1)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (souvenir sheet of 1)

March 2008

I have finally finished annotating the images database (adding the descriptive text for all the stamp images on site). This will help out visitors who use text-only browsers or speech-based user agents, as well as the all-digesting Googlebot.

I’ve changed the way the web links work (the yellow boxes in the lower right corner). Previously, they were all expanded. For some pages that contained a lot of different topics, these web links could run down the page to ridiculous lengths. I’ve added some DHTML which allows me to present those web links as “collapsed”. Moving your mouse over a topic of interest will expand the related links in a small blue window near your mouse pointer. This allows me to keep the pages much shorter and means you don’t have to do nearly as much scrolling up and down.

This DHTML also lets me present mouseover tips that fade in and out as your cursor moves over stamp images and web links. This is where you will see all the annotations I spoke of earlier. On some stamps, you will also see an enlarged image when you mouse over the images (generally, single stamps will enlarge & souvenir sheets will not).

I’ve tested these pages in IE 7, Firefox 2, Opera 9, K-Meleon 1.1 and the Safari for Windows 3.1 beta and they work as intended in all. They are also checking out as valid XHTML Strict 1.0. You should have no browsing issues. If you do please drop me an email if you have any questions, problems or factual corrections.


January 2008

We've changed hosts. Please feel free to email me if you see something broken that I've missed.