ASTP Anniversaries and events
This section will be dedicated to ASTP commemoration. Besides numerous covers celebrating project anniversaries there are general commemorative stuff inspired by joint space mission theme like 1992 US-Russian joint “Space cooperation” stamps issue. I also include covers with ASTP related cachets from various astrophilately exhibitions like COSMOS in France and LILIENTHAL in Germany. Many special postmarks have been issued and officially used in USA and several in Russia. This issue still needs to be researched.
Well, not all the covers are from the direct participants of the project but taking into account international essence of astrophilately events I assume they are in the right place like a couple of Romanian club coves that I just liked. Besides Russia and USA there is Kazakhstan that hosts Baikonur Cosmodrome and with all related considerations has its right to be present. As simple as that!
In the head of the section I show Russian Federation ASTP 25th anniversary small sheet of 6 stamps issued in 60,000 pieces in 2000 as part of “International Cooperation in Space” set.
1974 - Tuttlingen
1974 - SPACEPEX
1974 - SPACEPEX
1974 - SPACEPEX
Sep 29, 19741975 - PARFOREX
1975 - PARFOREX
Clyde Sarzin cachet1975 - MANPEX
1975 - KENMALPEX
1975 - KENMALPEX
1975 - KENMALPEX
1975 - Cape Canaveral
"Peaceful Uses of Outer Space" UN stamp First Day of Issue. The applications included ASTP.Space Voyage cachet
SV-UN-1975-T1
1975 - NEBPEX
1975 - NEBPEX
1975 - NEBPEX
Colorano Silk cachet1975 - NEBPEX
1975 - San Jose, CA
May 30, 19751975 - San Jose, CA
May 31, 19751975 - San Jose, CA
Jun 1, 19751975 - Nice, France
COSMOS astrophilately exhibition1975 - Nice, France
COSMOS astrophilately exhibition1975 - SPACEPEX
First Day of postmark usageSCCS cover
1975 - SPACEPEX
Jul 25, 19751975 - SPACEPEX
Jul 26, 19751975 - MOTOPEX
1975 - SUNPEX
1975 - SUNPEX
1975 - MANPHIL
quite uncommon event cover with ASTP dedication1976 - KSC
1st anniversary of dockingSV-ASTP-1976-T1
1976 - Moscow
1st anniversary of dockingSV-ASTP-1976-T1
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1976 - WERABA
1976 - Moscow
15th anniversary of Gagarin flight FDC1977 - Moscow
20th anniversary of space ageFleetwood cover
1978 - Leningrad
this card was issued in 1976, nicely decorated with soviet ASTP stampsfront
1978 - Leningrad
inside-11978 - Leningrad
inside-21980 - KSC
5th AnniversarySmithsonian Museum
1980 - Berlin
5th anniversary - IIR-Berlin1980 - USS New Orleans
5th anniversary1981 - LURABA
very unusual combo with Mercury and ASTP Cape Canaveral cancellations + cachet dedicated to the initial US space flight and the last US flight. LURABA exhibition Soviet cancellation just days before the first Space Shuttle STS-1 flight.1981 - KSC
House of FarnamSpace Accomplishments series
1982 - KSC
Deke Slayton commemorative cover cancelled on the day of first SSI satellite launch.Deke Slayton's only space flight was ASTP. In 1982 he left NASA to become a president of SSI.
SV-DS-1982-T1-V1
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1992 - Chicago
Space ExplorationsColorano Silk
1992 - Chicago
Space ExplorationsColorano Silk
1992 - Chicago
Space ExplorationsColorano Silk
1992 - Chicago
US - Russia joint issuePostal Commemorative Society
1992 - Chicago
US - Russia joint issuePostal Commemorative Society
1992 - Chicago
US - Russia joint issueArtCraft FDC
1992 - Houston
Space City Cover Society (SCCS)1992 - Chicago
Space City Cover Society (SCCS)1992 - Chicago
US - Russia joint issuecachet by Philswiss
1993 - Houston
Deke Slayton commemorative cover cancelled the day he has passed away.Deke Slayton's only space flight was ASTP.
SV-DS-1982-T1-V2
1993 - KSC
SV-DS-1982-T1-V2-green1995 - KSC
100th US manned flight - STS-71 Shuttle-MIR program.SV-100-1995-T1
1995 - Houston
20th anniversarySV-ASTP-1995-T1-green
1995 - Houston
20th anniversarySV-ASTP-1995-T1-blue
1995 - Houston
20th anniversaryunusual blue color of cancellation
SV-ASTP-1995-T1-blue
1995 - KSC
1st Shuttle-MIR docking special postmarkSV-ASTP-1995-T1-brown
Lansing, MI
20th anniversaryLansing, MI
20th anniversaryLansing, MI
20th anniversaryLansing, MI
20th anniversary1995 - Space Week
20th anniversary of ASTPTitusville, FL
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40th anniversary of ASTP was marked in Russia by issuing special postmark for Moscow and ISS as well as official ITC Marka postcard and Roscosmos covers for space ISS onboard cancellations. Of course several independent designers implemented the idea on cards and covers and added their own stamped cachets like Moscow Philatelic society and BaikonurSvyazInform. Roscosmos prepared and sent 50 commemorative covers that received only ASTP special onboard cancellation and blue octagon seal but not ISS calendar postmarks – that is quite uncommon practice. Several privately designed covers were sent to ISS as well probably as much as a couple of dozens. As usual Roscosmos covers were used as souvenirs for senior stuff and NASA officials. After being applied in space the “corrected” device travelled back to Earth and was used to postmark like a 100 official and private cards and covers to be sold to collectors. Strangely enough this anniversary has not received any attention in USA ...
2001 - Baikonur
Kazakhstan special postmark connecting 200th EVA on Jul 15, 2001 to ASTP.2001 - Kazakhstan
serviced cover with special postmark2002 - Plesetsk (Mirny)
interesting cover with Mirny 65th anniversary special cancellation and ASTP stamps. Mirny was a civil part of Plesetsk missile site, that was established on July 15, 1957.Occasionally ASTP launch occurred on the same day, 18 years later.
2005 - HUNTSPEX
30th anniversary2005 - Sparta, WI
30th anniversaryDeke Slayton hometown
2005 - Baikonur
30th anniversary2005 - Pskov
30th anniversaryclub cover
2014 - Kaluga
100th anniversary of Konstantin Bushuev - Soviet ASTP director2014 - Baikonur
40th anniversary of Soyuz-16 launch - Dec 2, 19742014 - Baikonur
40th anniversary of Soyuz-16 landing - Dec 8, 19742015 - Baikonur
40th anniversary2015 - Baikonur
40th anniversary2015 - Baikonur
40th anniversary, this cover was reconverted from FDC issued in 2010 - 35th anniversary2015 - Baikonur
40th anniversary2015 - Baikonur
40th anniversary2015 - Baikonur
40th anniversary2015 - Baikonur
40th anniversaryBaikonurSvyazInform
2015 - Baikonur
40th anniversaryBaikonurSvyazInform
2015 - Houston
40th anniversaryAlex Olshevsky postcard
2015 - Moscow
ITC Marka postcard with Moscow Philatelic Society cachet2015 - Moscow
Alex Olshevsky cachet2015 - Moscow
Alex Olshevsky cachet2015 - Moscow
1975 issue stationary cover2015 - Moscow
1975 issue stationary cover2015 - Moscow
40th anniversary2015 - Moscow
40th anniversary2015 - ISS flown
40th anniversaryserviced cover from Star City to USA
2015 - ISS flown
40th anniversarythe ISS postmarks are for Soyuz TMA-16M undocking
2015 - ISS flown
40th anniversaryRoscosmos commemorative cover
2015 - ISS board postmark
40th anniversaryISS ASTP special postmark was not completely destroyed and returned to Earth with cut date. Note - missing 17 from the date. 70 such cards along with 30 covers were cancelled unofficially to be sold to collectors.
2015 - Sagamore Beach, MA
the only known US cachet to mark the 40th anniversary2015 - Germany
40th anniversaryNordkurier private post service
2015 - Germany
40th anniversaryBiberpost private post service
2015 - Germany
40th anniversaryBiberpost private post service
2015 - Germany
40th anniversaryBiberpost private post service
2015 - Germany
40th anniversaryBiberpost private post service
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1985 - Trevose, PA
10th anniversarySV-ASTP-1985-T1-black
1985 - Trevose, PA
10th anniversarySV-ASTP-1985-T1-green
1985 - Trevose, PA
10th anniversarySV-ASTP-1985-T1-blue
1985 - Trevose, PA
10th anniversarySV-ASTP-1985-T1-purple
1985 - Trevose, PA
10th anniversarySV-ASTP-1985-T1-brown
1985 - Trevose, PA
10th anniversarySV-ASTP-1985-T2-black
1985 - Trevose, PA
10th anniversarySV-ASTP-1985-T2-purple
1985 - Romania
10the anniversary - Romanian Space Philately club1985 - KSC
10th anniversary1987
mailed cover with San Jose Expo cachet1987
mailed cover with San Jose Expo cachet1988 - Cape Canaveral
International Transportation Commemorative Covers Collection1989 - Washington DC
Fred Collins hand painted cachet1990 - Essen
Art-cover for the US - USSR joint issue1990 - Titusville
15th anniversaryJuly 20, 1990
1990 - Titusville
serviced cardJuly 21, 1990
1990 - Titusville
15th anniversaryJuly 22, 1990
1990 - USS New Orleans
15th anniversary1990 - HUNTSPEX
15th anniversary1990 - Rosemont, IL
15th anniversary1990 - Kennedy Space Center
IBM designed cachet1990 - Kennedy Space Center
IBM designed cachet1991 - LILIENTHAL
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1992 - Chicago
US - Russia joint issueSV-JI-1992-T1-V1
1992 - Chicago
US - Russia joint issueSV-JI-1992-T1-V2-brown
1992 - Moscow
US - Russia joint issueSV-JI-1992-T1-V2-blue
1992 - Titusville, FL
US - Russia joint issueSV-JI-1992-T2
1992 - Chicago
US - Russia joint issueSV-JI-1992-T3-V1
1992 - Chicago
US - Russia joint issueSV-JI-1992-T3-V2-green
1992 - Chicago
US - Russia joint issueSV-JI-1992-T3-V2-blue
1992 - Houston
US - Russia joint issueSV-JI-1992-T4-V1-brown
1992 - Houston
US - Russia joint issueSV-JI-1992-T4-V1-purple
1992 - Chicago
US - Russia joint issueSV-JI-1992-T4-V2
1992 - Chicago
US - Russia joint issueSV-JI-1992-T5-V1
1992 - Chicago
US - Russia joint issueSV-JI-1992-T5-V2-blue
1992 - Chicago + Moscow
US - Russia joint issueSV-JI-1992-T5-V2-purple
1992 - Chicago + Moscow
US - Russia joint issueSV-JI-1992-T5-V2-brown
1992 - Houston
US - Russia joint issueSV-JI-1992-T6-V1-green
1992 - Houston
US - Russia joint issueSV-JI-1992-T6-V1-blue
1992 - Moscow
US - Russia joint issueSV-JI-1992-T6-V2-green
1992 - Chicago
US - Russia joint issueSV-JI-1992-T6-V2-brown
1992 - INDYPEX
1992 - Chicago
US - Russia joint issueHouse of Farnam cachet
1992 - Chicago
US - Russia joint issueArtmaster serviced cover
1992 - Chicago
US - Russia joint issuePugh cachet
1992 - Chicago
US - Russia joint issueFleetwood
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1995 - ASTROFILA
Romania1995 - ASTROFILA
20th anniversary of space cooperation exhibition1995 - Moscow
1st Shuttle - Mir dockingFleetwood FDC
1995 - Star City
20th anniversaryFDC
1995 - Star City
20th anniversary1995 - Star City
20th anniversary1995 - Star City
20th anniversary1995 - Kazakhstan
20th anniversaryclub cover
1995 - Kazakhstan
20th anniversaryclub cover
1995 - Kazakhstan
20th anniversaryclub cover
1995 - Kazakhstan
20th anniversaryclub cover
1997 - Washington, DC
honoring USAF astronautsT. Stafford and D. Slayton
2000 - Baikonur
25th anniversary2000 - Baikonur
serviced cover2000 - Pskov
25th anniversaryclub cinderellas
2000 - Moscow
FDC - Space cooperation2000 - Hoyerswerda
25th anniversary2000 - Hoyerswerda
25th anniversary5 pcs of each color were done
2000 - Hoyerswerda
25th anniversary2000 - Hoyerswerda
25th anniversary2000 - Hoyerswerda
25th anniversary2000 - Hoyerswerda
25th anniversary2001 - MICHPEX
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