SOMALIE

FAMOUS MEN

This serie illustrates through philately certain important thematic events:

6 STAMPS :

The 25th anniversary of the 1st flight over MARINER 10, and Einstein's Theory of relativity

The Conquest of Mars, the American space probe in orbit around the Red planet

the 30th Anniversary of Apollo 11

The planetary retransmission of sporting events, the World Cup, football " FRANCE 1998 "

the 40th Anniversary of the flight around the moon and the 1st artificial planet of the Sun

the return of Halley's comet for the second time in the C20, and the special flight by Concorde, on the "night of the comet ".

On the frame of sheetlet 1 :

July 1994 - Comet SHOEMAKER-LEVY 9 encounter giant planet JUPITER - BIG Crash. 9 rocks collision with Jupiter atmosphere, the events is filmed by Hubble Space Telescope in Earth Orbit and by GALILEO during Solar system translation. Also IUE (ESA) - Ulysse, Voyager 2 are in action. This comet made holes as big as Earth in the Giant Gaz Planet Jupiter.

SOUVENIR SHEET :

NASA'40th Anniversary Ñ a great moment of the C20, with the return from space by American astronaut John Glenn.

Hommage to the 1st artificial satellite around Earth, and to the European rocket launcher ARIANE, Version 44 LP