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Exploring the Moon
on stamps
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The first robot explorers

Landers and orbiters 1

Landers and orbiters 2

Sample returns and lunar rovers

Map of lunar landings

Table of Moon probes

Apollo to the Moon!

Meeting the challenge

Repeating the feat

Driving on the Moon

Heading for the hills

Apollo lunar mission chronology

Russia’s secret manned Moon programme

What did we learn from Apollo?

Lunar exploration since Apollo

The international Moon fleet

Exploring the Apollo landing sites 1

Exploring the Apollo landing sites 2

Exploring the Moon on stamps
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Background image:
The waning crescent Moon.
(European Southern Observatory)


Text © Ian Ridpath

These pages support Ian’s talk on Exploring the Moon
 
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2004  Kazakhstan  50t

Luna 3 looping around the Moon and photographing its far side.

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2007  China  1.20y

China’s own lunar orbiter, Chang’e 1, is shown on this stamp released at the end of 2007. An accompanying commemorative sheet featured a diagram of Chang’e’s trajectory.

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2008  Gibraltar  10p, 17p, 42p, £2

A strip of four stamps showing stages in the Apollo 11 mission, issued by Gibraltar to mark the 50th anniversary of the formation of NASA. They were part of a mini sheet, with a background image of the Moon.   SG to come

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2000  USA  $11.75

This souvenir sheet contains a holographic stamp (which shows up black on this scan) depicting a Lunar Module landing on the Moon. The background picture is of Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke at Plum Crater. Duke is holding a sampling scoop. At top left can be seen part of the Lunar Rover.      SG MS3832d