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BHUTAN

Issued: May 15, 2000.-
6 Values perforate
Kind: Sheetlet ( x values illustrated )
Printing method: offset

Description : US shuttle - 12 April 1981 - 1st re-usable space Vehicle

X-15 - 28 June 1963 - Astronaut Joe Walker over 50 miles altitude, receives title of astronaut like the Russian cosmonauts from International Federation of Astronautics.

Buran - 15 Nov. 1988 Similar to US shuttle, powered by giant rocket Energia for its 2nd Flight. First flight of Buran entirely automatic.

Hermes future - French-ESA project for human flight powered by Ariane 5 rocket - perhaps used as escape capsule to ISS (International Space Station) similar to Hope Shuttle.

X.33 - 2002 future - Venturi Star, NASA project for complete reusable space vehicle for near Earth orbit. System of propulsion new and revolutionary.

Hope 2004 future - shuttle for Japanese participation in the International Space Station.


subject of sheetlet N° 1 frame:

Millennium flight - Special flight of Concorde - 1st January 2000 over the Atlantic Ocean.
Paris-New York, First commercial Supersonic Flight of year 2000

Note: During each representation of a European satellite, there is the ESA logo on the Bhutan stamps with the kind authorization of the European Space Agency.

Note: the subjects presented are the original drawings. Slight differences concerning the text and its positioning could be result of changes by the Security Printing Works.

Values informations :
10100 BHU 1    25nu Shuttle
10100 BHU 2    25nu X-15
10100 BHU 3    25nu Bouran
10100 BHU 4    25nu Hermés
10100 BHU 5    25nu Venturi star
10100 BHU 6    25nu Hope

Yvert  : 1501/1506
Michel : 2125/2130
Scott  : 1289

Stamp Designer : Alexandre Lollini

SPACE REVUE : 08 - 2000

Keyword(s) : #Aviation, #LOLLINI (design), #Moon and probes, #Space Shuttle.

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