USA - 1968 - Apollo 8, first flight around the Moon - 50 ex. complete sheet n.30932 of multicoloured c.6 (Unificato n.1144) issued on 5.5.1969 to commemorate the second manned mission of the USA Apollo space programme that led men around the Moon for the first time from 21 to 27 December 1969 with ten lunar orbits - signatures of the crew: F.Borman, J.A.Lovell, W.A.Anders - A.Bolaffi (financial cert. 100% 2005 with "Ex Collezione Icarus" handwritten) - very good quality - Foto - (12656F)

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USA - 1971 - Apollo 15, "Moon Rover" - 50 ex. complete sheet n.33162 of multicoloured c.8+8 (Unificato n.1205+1206) issued on 2.8.1971 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Space exploration, of Apollo 15 Moon landing and the first Moon walk aboard "Moon Rover" made by D.Scott and J.Irwin during more than 66 hours spent on the Moon in the about 12 days of Apollo 15 mission (26.7-7.8-1971) - signatures of the crew: D.Scott, A.Worden, J.Irwin - A.Bolaffi (financial cert. 100% 2005 with "Ex Collezione Icarus" handwritten) - very good quality - Foto - (12657F)

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USA - 1967 - Programme Gemini - c.5+c.5 "Gemini Unknown" - lack of the American flag on the space capsule in the value in the middle in the block of 9 ex. issued for the mission, two values c.5+c.5 in pair (Unificato n.1100+1101) - financial cert. Bolaffi 100% 1998 - very good quality - Foto - (12660F)

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USA - 1969 - Unknown Astronaut c.10 Air Mail multicoloured ex., variety with the 7 red lines of the American flag above Neil Armstrong's space suit shoulder lacking (Unificato n.A76a) - in a philatelic folder Bolaffi 1969-1979 to celebrate the X Anniversary of the Moon Conquest, large format with silver colour case which contains, besides the 2 cert., historical and philatelic news (pp.10) and the reproduction of newspapers about the first mission on the Moon - G.Bolaffi (cert.1979) - En.D. (cert.1979) - very good quality - Foto (parziale) - (12658F)

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USA - 1975 - c.10 Mariner 10 Venus/Mercury, 2 ex. (Unificato n.1317), one ex. variety without red print of the star - A.Bolaffi (financial cert. 110% 1999) - very good quality - Foto - (12661F)

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USA - 1975 - c.10 Mariner 10 Venus/Mercury, 2 ex. (Unificato n.1317), one ex. variety without blue print - A.Bolaffi (financial cert. 80% 2005 with reproduction of the complete sheet) - good quality - Foto - (12662F)

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USA - 1975 - c.10+10 Apollo-Soyuz, 2 pairs (Unificato n.1331+1332), one ex. variety without yellow print - A.Bolaffi (financial cert. 80% 2003 with reproduction of the block of 11 ex.) - cert. APS 2001 (with reproduction of the complete sheet) - good quality - uncommon natural postage stamp - Foto - (12663F)

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USA - 1989 - 20th Anniversary of Moon Conquest - $2,40+$2,40 "Moon Phantoms", multicoloured ex. lacking the line-engraved printing in black to complete the astronauts and the lunar craters (Unificato n.2162) - financial cert. A.Bolaffi 85% (1999) - good quality - one of the most demanded varieties among space postage stamps - Foto - (12664F)

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USA - 1962 - Project Mercury - FDC franked with c.4 "U.S. Man in Space" - canc. of the mission day "Cape Canaveral Fla. Feb 20 3.30 PM 1962" - signature of Colonel John Glenn, the first American astronaut orbiting around the Earth - very good quality - Foto - (12669F)

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USA - 1968 - Apollo 8 - commemorative cover of the first manned Apollo mission and entering the lunar orbit for the first time - canc. 21.12.1968, launch day and postmark of the secondary recovery ship USS Chukawan - signatures of J.Lovell and F.Bormann, members, together with W.Anders, of the first flight around the Moon - very good quality - Foto - (12670F)

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USA - 1969 - Apollo 10 - commemorative cover (recovery ship) of the fourth manned mission that finished the tests for the Moon landing - canc. of 26.5.1969, day of the splashdown in the Pacific Ocean and of the recovery of the spaceship by USS Princeton ship - signature of T.Stafford (member of the crew together with G.Cernan and J.Young) - very good quality - Foto - (12672F)

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USA - 1969 - Apollo 11 - commemorative cover ("splashdown") of this historic mission that led men on the Moon on 20 July 1969 (on the back, violet postmark portraying Neil Armstrong in his first step on the Moon ground and wording of his historic sentence) - Cape Canaveral canc. of 24.7.1969, day of the "splashdown" in the Pacific Ocean - signature of Wernher Von Braun, father of rocketry and director of Saturn rocket project at the Marshall Center, that led men on the Moon for the first time - very good quality - uncommon - Foto - (12673F)

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USA - 1971 - Apollo 14 - 3 commemorative covers of the mission, each one signed by a member of the crew - two covers of Apollo 14 launch, canc. of 31.1.1971 (one of Cape Canaveral) and the third one commemorative of the "splashdown", Cape Canaveral canc. of 9.2.1971 - signatures, in order by cover, of the whole crew: A.Shepard, S.Roosa, E.Mitchell - good quality - Foto - (12674F)

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USA - 1972 - Apollo 16 - commemorative postcard with the emblem of the mission (Mission Patch Cover) - first day canc. "Kennedy Space Center 16 Apr 1972", Apollo 16 launch day - signature of C.Duke (member, together with T.Mattingly and J.Young, of the crew that landed on the Moon for the second last time) - very good quality - Foto - (12675F)

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USA - 1972 - Apollo 16 - NASA b/w picture (cm 20.5x25.5) (n.72-H-544) dated "April 27,1972" landing day of Apollo 16 capsule - again on the back, 7 lines of description relevant to the "splashdown" photographed and relevant recovery in the Pacific Ocean of the astronauts 11 days after the launch - signature of Charles Duke, member of the crew together with J.Young and T.Mattingly - good quality - uncommon document - Foto - (12681F)

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USA - 1972 - Apollo 17 - eleventh and last mission with crew of the American space programme Apollo - commemorative cover of the landing, canc. "Cape Canaveral Dec 19 1972", recovery in the Pacific Ocean by means of the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga - signatures of the three astronauts E.Cernan, R.Evans and H.Schmitt, who effected last moonwalk in human history - very good quality - Foto - (12676F)

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USA - 1972 - Apollo 17 - eleventh and last mission with crew of the American space programme Apollo - commemorative cover for the capsule recovery in the Pacific Ocean by means of the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga, canc. "Kennedy Space Center Dec 19 1972", landing day - enclosed, a small card with the technical description of the capsule shield composition - signatures of Carl Swanson, cachet designer, and of the three astronauts E.Cernan, R.Evans and H.Schmitt, who effected last moonwalk in human history - very good quality - uncommon - Foto - (12677F)

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USA - 1983 - space letter n.207374 Shuttle STS-8 Challenger, 25th NASA Anniversary, franked with $9,35 and special date canc. of the first official mail transport in Space, launched in orbit from Kennedy Space Center on 30.8.1983 and returned to the Earth on 5.9.1983 (canc. also on the back) - at the beginning, 500,000 covers had been prepared, but only 260,000 were loaded with no consecutive numbering - financial authenticity cert.Bolaffi (1983) - in folder NASA illustrated in colours - very good quality - Foto - (12680F)

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USA - 1984 - "15th Anniversary of the conquest of the Moon" 1969-1984 - "Moon Story" cover n.012/336 franked with all the postage stamps issued by the US to celebrate their Space missions and canc. in Cape Kennedy on 20.7.1984, 15th anniversary of the first man landing on the Moon - financial cert. Bolaffi 100% (1984) - very good quality - Foto - (12668F)

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USA - 1999 - "30th Anniversary of the conquest of the Moon" 1969-1999 - cover n.47 of 120 canc. in Cape Kennedy on 20.7.1999 and franked with ex. "Unknown Astronaut" c.10 Air Mail - financial cert. Bolaffi 60% (1999) - good quality - Foto - (12667F)

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