USA 1969

Apollo 8

USA 1969 stamp Apollo 8

Earth rising over the limb of the Moon, based on this famous photograph taken in December 1968 by the crew of Apollo 8, the first humans to go into orbit around the Moon. During a transmission to Earth they read from the book of Genesis, hence the Biblical quotation on the stamp. 

Stanley Gibbons catalogue number: 

1358 





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