Thursday, July 9, 2009

Intercosmos Hungary

URSS Beautiful registered cover to Argentina

ИнтерКосмос was a Soviet progam that included manned missions to space. The participants countries were Soviet allieds from the Warsow Pact and countries like France and India. Between 1978 and 1988 there were fourteen internacional crews.

On May 26, 1980 Bertalan Farkas from Hungary went to space in the Soyuz 36 mission. These stamps were dedicated to this mission.

Romania Cover to Argentina



Cuba Maxicards - España 82


Sunday, June 28, 2009

FDC from China



Argentina 78 FDC from Monaco


Valentina Tereshkova

Cuba - Registered Cover to Argentina

From Wikipedia: Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Валентина Владимировна Терешкова; born 6 March 1937) is the first woman in space, now a retired Soviet cosmonaut. Out of more than four hundred applicants and then out of five finalists, she was selected to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963 and become the first woman to fly in space. On this mission, lasting almost three days in space, she performed various tests on herself to collect data on the female body's reaction to spaceflight.

Souvernir sheet from Bulgaria


Before being recruited as a cosmonaut, Tereshkova was a textile-factory assembly worker and an amateur parachutist. After the female cosmonaut group was dissolved in 1969, she became a prominent member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, holding various political offices. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, she retired from politics but remains revered as a hero in Russia.

Sunday, June 21, 2009