New Space Stamps 2008






1 of 4 stamps featuring American scientists


1 of 4 USA Flag stamps


Images of the Pitcairn Islands were captured by DigitalGlobe’s QuickBird satellite



Issued in Sheetlets of 10



Sputnik plus 15th Anniv TIBO
Issued in sheetlet of 8

On 2008-03-25 Malawi issued a set 0f 6 stamps plus a mini sheet containing the 6 for the 50th Anniversary of the first satellite titled 'The Inventors of the Transport Vessels'. One stamp featured Soyuz and one featured Constantin Tsiolkowski. They also issued a set of 4 stamps and a minisheet containing the 4 stamps for the 50th Anniversary of NASA. They show Columbia, Apollo 11, Apollo-Soyuz and Mariner 9. In addition a set of 4 stamps and a minisheet containing the 4 stamps for the 40th Anniversary of the first manned flyby of the moon. The stamps show the Apollo 8 crew plus various scenes from the Apollo 8 mission.




Each stamp appeared in a sheetlet of 8 with extensive selvedge designs








1 of 2 stamps for Europa 2008 - The Letter




1 of 5 stamps







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