posted 04-08-2016 11:32 AM               

• All Pioneer Rocket Mail till the end of World War II
  
• All covers and letters flown into space with manned projects
  
• All covers and letters flown into space with unmanned projects
  
• All 556 signatures of all astronauts reaching space plus Roger Chaffee and STS 51-L.

The catalogue is in German language with introduction and key words translated into English, Russian, Chinese and Italian languages.

On 516 pages with colour pictures of many rocket and space flown covers, each hard-bound copy costs 39.90 EUR plus postage. Editor is Active Intermedia Verlag who edit Austrian net catalogues.

A limited special edition was signed by eight cosmonauts: Gennady Padalka (878 days in space record), Sergei Rewin, Oleg Atemjew and Anton Schkaplerow, Alexander Samokutayev, Georgi Grechko (first postmaster in earth orbit, only human who worked in three space stations), Mikhel Korniyenko (one year in ISS with Scott Kelly) and Sergei Volkov (first second generation cosmonaut). The price is 75 EUR.

posted 04-11-2016 07:54 AM               

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posted 04-17-2016 01:08 PM               

Not-EU citizens may order the catalogue from Amazon.

My editor still is looking for a supplier for the US and for peculiar other countries to reduce postage costs compared with Amazon.

posted 04-19-2016 12:12 PM               

The price for a usual catalogue is 39.90 EUR + postage, for a catalogue signed by 8 cosmonauts 75 EUR + postage as charged by our postal services. Perhaps we can lower the postal rated, if David collects orders to US.

Gladly I write a small dedication and/or sign your copy.

posted 05-09-2016 12:35 PM            

RegencySuperior is pleased to offer the newly released edition of 'Pioneer Rocket Mail and Space Mail' by Walter M. Hopferwieser. This long-awaited work replaces Ellington Zwisler Rocket Mail Catalog, which was issued in 1967 and 1973. In contrast to earlier rocket mail catalogues, there is great emphasis on technical, biographical and philatelic background.

The catalogue is in German language with introduction and key words translated into English, Russian, Chinese and Italian languages. There are 516 pages with colour pictures of many rocket and space flown covers. The hardbound catalogue has more than 1,000 color images including signatures of all astronauts.

Price: $46 USD (free shipping within the U.S. for orders placed before May 20, 2016).

To Order: telephone, toll-free: 1-800-782-0066, direct 314-361-5699; fax: 314-361-5677; email or purchase online.

posted 05-17-2016 08:36 AM               

If there is anyone in the world qualified to generate the worthy successor to E-Z it could only be Walter Hopferwieser. The Salzburg astrophilatelist has for decades been researching, collecting and expertizing envelopes carried into space. In 1993 he authored Cosmic Post, a solid effort that touched lightly on Austrian and American covers before exhaustively delving into Soviet/Russian flights. Also particularly helpful was a section for identification of cosmonaut and astronaut autographs. Ten years later, working with Roland Kohl, Hopferwieser produced a spiral bound treasure entitled, The Rocket Mail of Friedrich Schmiedl. After acquiring the holdings of the Schmiedl estate, Walter became the world authority on the Austrian rocket pioneer.

In Pioneer Rocket Post and Cosmic Post, Hopferwieser reaches for the E-Z high watermark and surpasses it. On its face the volume is beautiful. The work is case bound with glossy stock pages that bring the hundreds of large color illustrations to life. He categorizes the flights either by rocket pioneer (Ley, Roberti, Schmiedl, Tiling, Zucker, etc.) or by project spending about 200 pages on manned missions from the X-15, Apollo and Salyut to STS, MIR, ISS, and SpaceShipOne. An additional 50 pages cover unmanned programs.

Not only has the author totally re-indexed the world of rocket and space mail but has suggested 21st century prices for this seldom seen material. Unlike E-Z, Walter has not gotten bogged down in post WW II rocket flights which were rarely ground breaking and usually done solely for philatelic reasons. Exemplars of all cosmonaut, astronaut, and taikonauts autographs who have ventured into space is also included.

posted 05-23-2016 07:16 PM               

I have tried to do some translation of select pages by:

1. Scanning the page as a pdf file.
   
2. Highlighting and copying a block of text from the scan.
   
3. Pasting the block of text into an online translator program and translating it.
   
4. Copying/pasting the resulting English translation onto a Word file.

posted 05-25-2016 08:42 AM               

Within the next couple of months and years I will not resume my work on the catalogue. However, after the first edition is sold out, a second edition may be done in English. In this case, it should be worded by an English native-speaker, who also understands German very well. Of course I hope then to be able to further improve its content.

posted 06-07-2016 12:52 PM               

Got my signed copy, and am very pleased with this fantastic catalogue.

posted 11-21-2017 01:58 PM               

It will be interested for collectors in many non German speaking countries including USA, UK, India, Russia and China.