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Author	Topic: Space Cover of the Week: Index and comments
Bob M Member Posts: 1917 From: Atlanta-area, GA USA Registered: Aug 2000	posted 04-20-2009 07:33 AM This is to announce the start of a weekly series in the "Stamps and Covers" section of collectSPACE that will be entitled "Space Cover of the Week." To promote and encourage space cover collecting, several of us ATA/Space Unit members have decided to begin a series that will feature a different space cover here each week. At this time, only a few of us will participate in this weekly feature, but we invite others to join us and contribute with some of their own special covers. We intend to span the large and rich field of astrophilately, which will include covers marking mostly significant space events, but occasionally even little-known events will be included. This series will display many various covers, cachets and cancels, along with information about them, that will show how meaningful and interesting collecting space covers can be. We plan to continue this weekly series with a new cover every Monday and will begin with a cover that marks the beginning of one famous spacecraft's long road to space and into history. Columbia's Overland Move The X-15's Teething Pains RMS First Deploy and Testing Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Hubble Space Telescope Apollo 10 Recovery Apollo 17, Last Men on Moon Maiden Shuttle Launches STS-125 Launch Delay 9/2008 ASTP Tracking Station Apollo 11 Bendix Cachet Apollo 11 Paul Calle Cachet Apollo 11 TV Brought to Earth Apollo 11 Moonlanding Apollo 11 20th Anniversary Mariner 6 and 7 Reach Mars DOD Manned Orbiting Lab Hubble Space Telescope X-24B Official Cachets First Lifting Body That Wasn't First Men on the Moon 40th Gemini V in Space ASTP Launch Cover LOFT-1 Rocket Flown Cover Gemini's Paraglider Tracking Skylab SL-4 Recovery Retun to Port Cassini Mission to Saturn Zazzle.com Space Stamps All Shook Up! Lunar Prospector Ares I-X Launch Sam I Am! Milestone Shuttle Launches Clusters' Last Stand LCROSS Impact on the Moon Shuttle SRB Retrieval Ships Soyuz 4/Soyuz 5 turns hot V-2 Test, Made in the USA Gemini Twin Stamp FDC Tracking or Recovery? STS-107/Columbia John Glenn Returns to Space Stafford Gets Scrubbed V-2, Is That You? Space artist Bob McCall Space Junk to Space Cover Mercury Stamp FDC's LANDSAT-C Apollo 13 Grumman Cover Apollo 13, Lucky Number 13 Apollo 13: "At least something worked" Apollo 13 Covers Apollo 13 PRS USS Iwo Jima Mercury Pad Abort Test Mercury's Original Iron Man Two for One ASTP Cachet and Cancellations Early Apollo KSC cachets The First KSC Cachet Willow, Hawaiian Missile Mail Just Another Redstone? MSFC Skylab & ASTP RSCs Helios Offical NASA Cachet Revisiting Mariner II Secret Space Stamp Testing the Saturn Engine SRB Static Firing RSC Unofficial Space FDCs Gemini 5 Velvetone Cachet USS Essex & Apollo 1 Fire Armstrong Gets His Wings Comet Kohoutek The Space Age: Day One A Space Suit Precursor(?) Scatback the Space Monkey Did Harry notice? Solar Max Repair Mission Mir-Flown Kniga Cover John McKay Mt. Palomar and V-2 Test Did Morris Beck notice? SRB Parachute Test Cover Smithsonian Milestones of Flight Space City Cover Society Covers Rarest of the Gemini PRS Covers X-Plane Pilot and Apollo 16? Apollo Insurance Covers Viking Parachute Test Covers First Recovery Ship Cover? Unflown STS-8 Challenger Cover? USS Fox and Apollo 10? No but... Shuttle Multi-Canceled Covers Pioneer-Venus Parachute Landing Tests Do-It-Yourself Dyna-Soar Famous NASA test pilot Fred Drinkwater? Apollo 17 S-II Arrives at KSC Discovery of Uranus Ring System Rockwell Space Division Stamp Club Covers Triple Digits!!! Hail Columbia! Special Message from USS Intrepid Distinct USS Okinawa Cover Yuri Gagarin US Space Covers with Only Foreign Postage Saturn S-II Stage Test USS Midway V-2 Rocket Test, 1947 First US Man in Space 50th Anniversary Soyuz-28 Intercosmos Cosmonaut Alan Shepard, MR-3 Launch Covers The Douglas Skyrocket Did the USS Myles C. Fox participate or not? Apollo Admirals' Covers Soyuz 3 Flight Space Anniversary Covers A 4th of July Surprise A Unique Aussie Cover Test Pilot Mike Adams' flown X-15 cover When the Race for Space Began ASTP Precursor Soyuz 16 World's 1st Privately Funded Rocket X-2 Flown Cover Cosmic-Ray Research Flight SR.53 Rocketplane Viking missions to Mars More Viking Mars Covers Palestine, TX Balloon Cover Double Cancels Early Arkansas Space Covers Palomar Mountain Skylab space station Captain's Covers for First U.S. Orbital Flights The Misunderstood Mercury-Scout Lifting Body and Hot Rod USS Observation Island Rollout of Shuttle Enterprise Astronaut Autographed NASA/KSC VIP Cards Edwards Rocket Test Site Postmarks James Lovell Czech in Space Space Craft Covers Season's Greetings From the Moon Russian Apollo-Soyuz Test Project FDCs Space Shuttle's Final Flight Forrest Petersen Unknown USS Guam Atlantic Recovery Force, 1970 Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center dedication STS-135 Shuttle Flight Directors Space Stamp First Day Covers John Glenn launch scrub Glenn Fever! After the Flight Glenn Fever Continues Paul Calle's Mercury astronauts Payload specialist Robert Wood Morris Beck Crew Covers Apollo-Saturn V Center Grand Opening Cover Erin Creek Missile Launch First Space Shuttle Cover? NASA Comes, Cities Go Soyuz 12 Space Cover Cachet Errors Mercury Atlas-7 USS Pierce Yeager Flown X-1A Cover, 1953 Carpenter General Space Craft Covers Cachet Voskhod 1 covers John Glenn/Friendship 7 50th Bob White and the X-15 Early Station Related Postmark A Gemini 4 Mystery Cover Shuttle Crew Escape Sled Tests Flown on final shuttle flight X-15 (incl. Boy Scout cachet) who was Barbara Baker?" Bumerang really a Boomerang? Space shuttle RCS testing Viking: 36 years before Curiosity M2 Lifting Body Cachets RIP Neil Armstrong,1930-2012 Goldey Space Cover Page Félix or Félicette? Pioneer Venus Program Enterprise and the ALT Program HL-10 Lifting Body Cachets About a Date?" STS Abort Landing Sites Soyuz 30 Intercosmos Multi-signed and well-traveled Wally! Orange?" NAASM card? Soyuz-31 Intercosmos Cosmonaut Astronaut Flown Covers Celebrating Apollo 17 in covers Numeroff X-15 Flown Cover A Skylab 4 Holiday to Remember Soyuz-36 Intercosmos Cosmonaut Shuttle Carrier Aircraft Flown Covers Joe Walker Which One is It?" Discoverer 26 AKA Corona 9019 Canadian Astronaut Stamps FDC Teacher in Space Project Apollo 11 Flight Directors Life? Before Skylab and Mir - MOL "El Kabong" Dropped at Fort Hood Kennedy Space Center cancels Flown on Soyuz, Mir, Atlantis Scott Crossfield Triskaidekaphobia! Vandy Officials Rocket, Tin Can Mail at Niuafo'ou NASA's 25th Anniversary Cancel Heritage Craft Apollo Covers The Last Mercury "You Call These Space Covers?" USS Barbero missile mail Tracking Map Envelopes Friedrick Tsander Apollo 11 Anniversary Covers Fifty Years of Women in Space Deke! Fireproof mail Launch Security One Small Step ASSESS-2 Spacelab Simulation "Chasing" the Space Shuttle Bob Rushworth and the X-15 Sam, Miss Sam Monkeynauts Boilerplate mail Kennedy Visits McDonnell Pioneer Venus Parachute Test A Tribute to Skylab ASSET 1 A Lab in the Sky, Skylab! The Skylab is falling Skylab Development, Support SSS Explorer-45 Launch Skylab Prime Recovery Ships Skylab suit fit check covers Almost Impossible! AS-201 Flight Director Randy Stone FAR OUT! Pioneer 10, Voyager 1 Milt Thompson and the X-15 Apollo 8 Confirms Santa Claus USS Yorktown Apollo 8 Recovery Pioneer Venus Apollo 8: Off to the Moon! Apollo 8 TWA Cachet Schirra Doesn't Pull the D-Ring 1966 Voyager Test IAF Congress 1973 First Shuttle Landing at KSC Pete Knight and the X-15 Flown on Regulus 2, Venice, Fla. Parachutes and Gemini 6A Russia's Collectors Day 1961 Tribute to Bill Pogue and Skylab 4 Bill Dana and the X-15 The Mercury 13! USS Algol and Apollo 9 Buzz opts not to commercialize "First To The Stars" exhibit Little Joe II Bill Dana, Rest in Peace R/V Neil Armstrong Christened To the Stars Philatelic Exhibition My Favorite Space Cover Cachets X-15 First Glide Flight Charles Riser Covers, Too Good to be True? Troubled Flight for the X-15 To The Stars Philatelic Exhibition "We have a cutoff..." Ranger 7 at 50 Voyager 1, Are We There Yet? Keweenaw Rocket Range Apollo Soyuz Test Project anniversary Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: After Splashdown The MX-324 – America's First Manned Rocketplane Big Joe, Not Your Average Joe Neil Armstong Burial at Sea Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Anniversary Flown Into the Stratosphere Balloon Cover First launch at Cape Canaveral SpaceShipOne Takes the X-Prize Incredible 4-inch flight of MR-1 Pegsat Apollo-Soyuz anniversary TM-18 and Mir space station Hubble Trouble: Deploy and Repair Development of the X-15 Engine Limited edition Space Craft Covers Ariel 1 SRB Nosecap Ejection Tests Lt. Uhura and Sally Ride Planet Pluto: 1930 to 2015 The First Spacecraft Cachet Happy New Year! Gemini 5 Space Craft Cover Soyuz TMA-15M launch to ISS Soviet crashed nuclear sats Pilot Tom McMurtry: A Tribute Gemini 2 at 50 Hubble Muddle Toil and Trouble MA-7 Captain's Covers Viking 1, Arecibo and boulders Pioneer 10/11 and Mariner 10 Orion EFT-1 Launch & Recovery What, a Beck Space Cover? Gemini 3 at 50 Nation of Celestial Space International Ultraviolet Explorer Japan Planet B to Mars Mars Observer disappears X-1 First Supersonic 50th Shuttle launch from San Clemente Glenn MA-6 flight NASA locations Small Astronomy Satellite XCOR EZ Rocket First Flight John Glenn at 94: A Tribute Gemini 4 at 50 Astronaut arrest scrubs mission! Apollo 11 Hornet dual cancels SEASAT-A Launch ASTP at 40 years ASTP +40: Pre-launch covers ASTP +40: Favorite flight covers Pluto Has A Heart! Dawn Arrives at Ceres Vostok 2 MR-3 Space Craft LE covers Gemini 5 at 50: USS Du Pont Barking Sands Rocket Launches Goodbye, Pluto! HEAO-C Launch Thor-Able Minnie Mouse Barbarella rocket launch Atlantis 30th Anniversary Engle Goes for Three Robot Astronaut! Apollo 17 return to port? SITE communications (India) US Balloon flights, 1933-4 Centaure rocket launch Slick-Six and Polar Express The X-2 Lights Its Fire Lucky Flight of Apollo 13 Gemini 3 Tracking Ship Shenzou 5 Mission Christmas in Space Kronogård launch site SRB Retrieval Ship Covers Gemini 7/6 at 50 Baker's flown X-15 covers Crazy Cachets Khrushchev Mars 3 cover Rassvet MRM-1 Edgar Mitchell: A Tribute Bassett and See Remembering Charlie Bassett Project Gemini (abort) cover SERT and PAET Viking Mars Landings Sun Eclipse Jun 30, 1973 Tribute to Fred Haise The X-2 Spring A Station in Space! Glenn visits Hamburg GT-12 Captain's cover proof SvalRak launch site A Tribute to Wally Schirra Gemini 9A 'Spacewalk From Hell' Apollo 12 Hit by Lightning Skylab Workshop Re-entry MSFC Official Cachets First space shuttle crews named A Tribute to Bob Crippen Viking-A "turnaround" covers Gemini Hits Its Stride All seven astronauts! NASA’s Original Snoopy Istres, France TAL site Apollo 14 golf shot - signed ISEE-C STS-1 and STS-2 at 35 The End of the X-2 Cooper Flight Supersize That? STS-115 Launch Stratoscope II Balloon Santiago de Chile station GT-12's 50th Anniversary Stapp The Flight of XS-1 Standard Oil: sat tracking? One Year on the Station STS-47 (Spacelab-J) Christmas in space GRAIL enter lunar orbit Lunar Module's First Flight Apollo Fire at 50 Iven Kincheloe, Ace Test Pilot Project Bumper Atlas STS-60 Soviet crashes in Americas Shenzhou 2 Progress collision with Mir Joe Engle, A Tribute Surveyor 3 at 50 Space monkeys everywhere! Company Business Shuttle SRB static test GT-12 proof Captain's cover Showa Station Soviet 'Space Bike' Space Shuttle's First Three Landing Sites Vladimir Komarov Early Gemini Space Covers Glenn Goldcraft Cards – They do exist! Helios-B Launch Proton rocket launch to Mars Columbus and his Lunar Eclipse ISS – the beginning STS-8: The Space Cover Flight Pete Knight Earns the DFC Vega Venus Balloon Scatback, Rarest of the Space Monkeys! Statue of Liberty FDC Apollo 15 Insurance Cover Marathon in space Vostok 3-4 group flight Astronaut Gene Cernan: A Tribute Not Quite Muroc Incredible Mission of Apollo 12! Gemini 4 Return-to-Port Moon or Mars Lander? A Requiem for Cassini Sputnik 60th anniversary Cassini-Huygens Tribute, Part 2 First Spanish stamps launched to stratosphere V2 rocket comes to America! Not Supposed to Exist Soyuz 11 Crew Autographs Soyuz T-4 to Salyut 6 Postmarked twice, no double cancels Golitsyno-2 postmark Apollo 17, 45th Anniversary An End to a Tragic 1967 USS Yorktown Happy Holidays Rocket-powered Mach flight Columbia over Albuquerque Scrubbed launches Soyuz TM-24 crew change Farewell to Four Astronauts X-15 cover mystery solved Apollo 8 goes to the moon! GT-5 launch, splashdown MIA Minnie Mouse Shuttle Bedrest Tests Space places: Vernon Buran OK-GLI Story Anniversaries with a twist Ames Research Center Earliest Atlas Cover? Pioneer 11 Saturn encounter STS-107 foam impact tests Strongarm Ham's spaceflight delight! US Rockoons Leonov: Cosmonaut, artist Rarest Little Joe cover? US Space Stamps Sheet First American Rocketplane Range instrumentation ships SCC Skylab Covers? Pioneer-Venus 40th Suspect space cover cancels Space wheel, an old dream Soyuz T-13 to Salyut 7 The ship that got there first MR-4 PRS w/added cachet The Redstone Missile Apollo 13 USS New Cancels What it took to be the best Uranus Ring Discovery Gemini parasail, paraglider Cachet portion used twice Soyuz TM-17 postmark error Tracing back rare cancels NASA's 60th Anniversary Apollo 7 at 50 Great MA-4 Recovery NASA Mining Competition STS-71 Shuttle Mir NEEMO 9 Chinese space covers ATV-5 Georges Lemaitre Apollo 8 50th anniversary Michael Adams' last flight Unsung Mother Planes Space Monkey Old Reliable Orbit Covers Binders Flash Gordon 'Mars Attacks' SOFIA observatory ATV-1 sails to Kourou Personal space dates USS Lake Champlain PRS Apollo 9 at 50 '...before the big one!' Challenger recovery Apollo 16 observatory PRS cover cancels Corrected space cover MAKS 99 Create your own cachets Another Riser Cover A Dyna-Soar Dig Apollo 11 goal achieved GaoFen-11 Launch Soyuz TMA-2 to the ISS Unnumbered Beck cachets STS-51J Houston postmark TUBSAT-N launch Montclair to the Moon Apollo 11 plus 50 Apollo 11 Recovery Apollo 12, Ever a Sim? Apollo 10 Special Handling STS-40/SLS-1 Launch First postmaster in space CONTOUR mission Montclair to the Moon (2) NASA Lifting Body Aircraft Soyuz 6, 7, 8 Kniga Apollo 13 proves lucky Commercial recovery fleets Soyuz Club Cachets, Part 1 San Marco launch site Who Is OSCAR? Robert Rank Velvet covers Apollo 11, plus 50 Apollo 12 Recovery Team Orbit Covers with a Twist Apollo 11 50 Year Cancels Navstar-1 Launch Exhibiting tips for awards Sea Launch Unsual Swanson cachet Moon Map Space Covers Jim Irwin: A Tribute The Xf-91 Rocketplane Rocket Sled LAGEOS-A launch April 7, 1961 cover Koch cachet covers BIOS-2 Recovery Cover Remembering Al Worden Chuck Yeager: A Tribute X-23, 24, RV and X-38 WWII USMC rockets Luna 3 Enterprise ALT, SCA crews Club for the Future Club in the past Surveyor 6 Space Craft Robert Lawrence Spacelab's first flight HL-10 Lifting Body Tracking Project Mercury Mailer's Postmark Permit Kosmos-782 Astronaut air accidents China, first sea launch Doc's Local Post Artwork of Robert McCall Shuttle orbiters first flights M2-F2 and F3 lifting body NASA cachets from KSC Multiple space FDI cover Ultraviolet Explorer Comet Kohoutek INTA-NASA Madrid (part 1) INTA-NASA Madrid (part 2) Apollo 7 Beck cachets Neil Armstrong's first flight The X-24B lifting body X-24B lifting body, part 2 Von Braun rocket team Veronique Rocket TESS Life found on Mars (?) NASA-INTA Las Palmas NASA STDN Madrid Clyde Sarzin Katzowitz's cancels My First Space Cover STS-8 cancellation error Dutch Space Travel Archives 51L signed launch cover USS Furse GT-4 MA-6 USS Antietam Quarantine Politicians in Space What's a Muroc? Gemini 3 'Space Twins' Chimp-onauts Early STS Test Cover Shuttle Mission 51-D X-15 rocketplane records Cover without postmark Possible 2nd Enos SCC Gemini IV Carpenter and Aurora 7 Soyuz 11 at 50 Mercury 7 astronauts GT-3 recovery mysteries HEAO-C launch Johnston Island launches Shaba launch site USS John Young tie-in H.N. Local Post Cover NASA MSFC Anniversary Conestoga 1 private launch Apollo 13 emergency ships Tereshkova visits home Commercial astronauts Zaragoza TAL site Gemini 2 Beck Crew Cover Venera 4 mission A launch on my birthday X-1 Rocket Flight at 75 Sokolsky Cachets Cassini's Grand Finale Soviet 'Mars 1' club cachets Ariel 1 tracking ship Supposed to be an SCC? Rank flocked Apollo 1 Soviet 'criminals' Surprise Apollo 11 ONCs Titan II at 60 Space Achievements 1971 Landsat 50th anniversary Cooper at Hickam AFB The Jupiter Effect Gemini 3 double cancel Great Ukrainians in Space Apollo 1 replica ONC Apollo 16 at 50 M2-F2 Glide Flights Flown to the Moon Mars Hope tracking covers Unusual Apollo 15 with error Apollo 11 Coin FDC Early Soviet Satellite Comms OFTs: Shuttle and Starliner X2 First Glide Flight First Beck Space Cover Women in space Pegasus, rockets and debris Telestar-1 active comsat Apollo 11 splashdown ASTP modern postmarks Fourth of July space events SMEAT and canned meat Andromeda FDC Fred Haise and the X-15 First moon rocket launch We Choose the Moon Postponed launches Pioneering balloon flights Shuttle-Mir docking postmarks Teacher-In-Space, Part 2 Russian launches at Wallops Ukraine Unofficial FDC Happy 140th Dr. Goddard SpaceX Inspiration4 ASTP recovery APS covers Apollo lunar module in space Apollo 17 at 50 NASA Group 2 selection US joins the space race Apollo 16 lunar surface UVC GT-6 scrub tracking ship? Space Shuttle STS-107 Lunokhod 2 at 50 years NASA contractor covers D-558-II Skyrocket First Flight Apollo 11 FDC Extra Cancel STS-107 debris search Bion-10 Gemini 6A 'borrowed' cachet TKM-Volna ICBM flown Unusual carried covers Joe Kittinger No Cancel, No Problem! Apollo 11 and USS Arlington USNS Croatan mobile range Chelyabinsk 10th anniversary Unicover Apollo 11 cachets Ferry Flight Stopovers LLRV and LLTV Brigadier General Aldrin Sputnik, Arkansas and Grechko Challenger landing at KSC Gemini-6/7 NASA cachet error Firsts by women astronauts X-24B taxi tests Surveyor Program Discoverer recoverer STS-67 numbered cover Marisat satellites Rank combo cancellations June 8, 1937 solar eclipse Covers with appropriate stamps The Ranger Program Lunar Orbiter Program Liberty Bell 7 With or without cachet? Reused recovery cachets All in the family USS Alstede, Skelley cachet My favorite X-15 covers Skylab 3 at 50 Sally-Amy-Moe Zero over One Echo Not a cover but a memento My Mom Heard The Landing! Colonel Frank Borman Launch excitement VIP cards Ken Mattingly: A Tribute X-15 and U-2 MOL and its pilots Lunar Prospector Mismatched image and event Explorer-1 Whitney with a twist Autographed, unfinished business Port Canaveral Post Office USS Noa and MA-6 recovery Yeager Flies the M2F1 Project Mercury FDC Vostok 1 Hand and mechanical postmark A Tale of two Saturn V's Fort Bliss Centennial Stamp That image looks familiar 'Decade' on Apollo 15 PRS Gene May and the Skyrocket More Orbit Covers STS-8 flown cover error Fulton Stamp shuttle cover The launch that started it all The General. Tom Stafford. Orsino, Florida Favorite programs 1972-82 Metered postage Gemini lesser-known ships Shenzhou 1 flown cover Shenlong space plane Bill Anders Rare Gemini-3 PRS covers Official city, unofficial cancel
Apollo-Soyuz Member Posts: 1303 From: Shady Side, Md Registered: Sep 2004	posted 05-10-2009 10:03 AM We encourage comments from all space collectors especially Space Unit members. If you have a cover you would like to participate to the Cover of the Week feature, email Bob McLeod with your cover idea. We would like more participation from all. There are many different ways to collect. We are hoping to stimulate new collectors.
micropooz Member Posts: 1778 From: Washington, DC, USA Registered: Apr 2003	posted 01-02-2024 02:06 PM It's hard to believe that Bob started Space Cover of the Week (SCOTW) almost 15 years, and 700+ articles ago! And it's still fun to write these! Many thanks to Robert for giving us the forum to write about space covers and also for putting together the index of articles you see above. That index has been used a zillion times by us SCOTW authors to see if we've already covered a subject, or what else has been said about a subject. But we're a victim of our own success because sorting through 700+ entries is getting difficult (But Robert, please don't stop adding to the index!). So, I have developed an Excel spreadsheet, breaking down our first 734 articles (through 2023) into topics (e.g. - programs, flights, space places, collector info, etc). The spreadsheet is available to any of you collectors by sending me an email request. And I hope to update it after the end of each subsequent calendar year. My email addy is available by clicking the mail icon above this message.

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