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First set of ESPACE LOLLNI for GHANA...

6 STAMPS :

USA: MERCURY 5 May 1961 to 15 May 1963 First US Spacecraft.

GEMINI: 8 April 1964 to 11 Nov. 1966 two men in space,

APOLLO: 27 Jan. 1967 to 7 Dec. 1972 Three men in space, for Moon conquest Three Astronauts dead on Apollo.

RUSSIAN VOSTOK: 12 April 1961 to 16 June 1963 First man in space for Soviet Union

VOSKHOD: 12 Oct. 1964 to 18 March 1965 Three men in Space and first walk in space.

SOYOUZ: 23 April 1967 to 14 May 1981. - 3 Russian Cosmonauts dead in Space Most important number of Human spacecraft. 40 different launches. (Soyouz 1 to Soyouz 40)

On the frame of sheetlet 1 :

14 Jan. 1969 First Soviet Space mail from Soyouz 4 and 5 ( Board letter )

SOUVENIR SHEET : CHALLENGER DISASTER 28 Jan. 1986 Seven U.S. Astronauts killed 75 seconds after lift off Logo of STS 51 L Mission and Astronauts JARVIS Gregory - Mc AULIFFE Christa - Mc NAIR Ronald ONIZUKA Ellison - RESNIK Judith - SCOBEE Francis - SMITH Michael