Buzz Aldrin dominates the Apollo 11 first Moon landing stamps—but can you spot Neil Armstrong?
I write about science and nature, stargazing and eclipses.One of the new 'Forever' stamps to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing on July 20, 1969." collection commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing on July 20, 1969.
Designed by its art director Antonio Alcalá, the two stamps are quite different, with only one of them an actual photograph taken on the moon, by Neil Armstrong of Buzz Aldrin. The other features a photograph of the moon with a yellow dot indicating the exact landing site of Apollo 11's"Eagle" lunar landing module."Eagle" took Armstrong and Aldrin to the moon's surface from the Columbia command module, which was piloted by Michael Collins.
The U.S. Postal Service did not give any more details but said it would later reveal the date, time and location for a first-day-of-issue ceremony.One stamp features a photograph of Apollo 11 lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, now 89, in his spacesuit on the surface of the moon. He climbed out of Eagle module . It may seem odd that Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon and the commander of the Apollo 11 mission is not featured in this commemorative stamp.
This is basic moongazing."Tranquility Base," as Armstrong called the landing spot where he took his"one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" on July 20, 1969, is on the lower-left-hand side of the Sea of Tranquility. Where Apollo 11 precisely landed was just above Moltke Crater, though that's hard to see without at least a 6-inch telescope. If you want to learn exactly where all six Apollo missions landed, visit the wonderful U.S. Postal ServiceYes.
These undated file images provided by the U.S. Postal Service shows the Total Solar Eclipse Forever stamp. The U.S. Postal Service unveiled Tuesday, June 20, 2017, in Laramie, Wyo., the first-of-its-kind stamp, which commemorates the Aug. 21 eclipse, that changes when you touch it by transforming into an image of the Moon from the heat of a finger. Back in June 2017, the U.S.
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