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decimal issue of Ascension

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  • Colnect-1292-831-GalileoTelescopeDrawing.jpg
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Short desc: decimal

Issuer: Ascension
Date: 2/15/1971
Occasion: unset


Consists of 14 stamps: (See stamps as list)

1/2p d=early Chinese rocket AD 1232
1p d=Medieval Astronomers
1 1/2p d=Tycho Brahes Observatory
2p d=Galileo, Moon and telescope
2 1/2p d=Isaac Newton, Instruments and apple
3 1/2p d=Harrisons Chronometer
4 1/2p d=First American manned orbital flight
5p d=Palomar Telescope
7 1/2p d=Jodrell Bank Telescope
10p d=Mariner 7 & Mars seen through a telescope
12 1/2p d=Sputnil 2 Dog Laika
25p d=Walking in Space
50p d=Lunar Module on Moon
1lb d=future space research station

All are dt=space (1971 Ascension) wmk=St Edwards crown & CA

Issues with this name: Ascension, British Antarctic Territory, Samoa (1967)