Space and Astronomy Stamps - Ascension Island

Background information about Ascension Island

Ascension Island is part of Saint Helena, but maintains its own postal service.
Postal Administration: Ascension Island Post Office and Philatelic Bureau

Issue Date / Set Description

Description

17 May 1965 - International Telecommunication Union Centennial

International Telecommunication Union Insignia 3p
International Telecommunication Union Insignia 6p

7 November 1966 - Ascension Tracking Station

Dish Antenna 4p
Dish Antenna 8p
Dish Antenna 1sh 3p
Dish Antenna 2sh 6p

15 February 1971 - Decimal Currency Issue

Early Chinese Rockets
Early Arab Astronomers
Tycho Brahe
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Chronometer
booklet w/ 4x 6 previous designs
Friendship 7
Palomar Observatory
Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory
Mariner 7
Sputnik 2
Gemini 4
Apollo Moon Landings
Future Space Station

20 March 1975 - Orbital Photography / Skylab

Skylab / Ascension Island
Apollo Command/Service Module / Ascension Island

18 August 1975 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Overprints

15 February 1971: Friendship 7
15 February 1971: Sputnik 2
15 February 1971: Gemini 4

4 July 1976 - United States Bicentennial

Bahamas Long Range Proving Ground
Devil’s Ashpit Station
Viking Lander

27 April 1978 - Ascension Island Station

Dish Antennae (sheet of 10)
Dish Antennae (single)

15 September 1979 - Telecommunication

Bringing Cable Ashore
Cable-laying Ship
Map
Cable-laying Ship
Earth Station

7 March 1986 - Comet 1P/Halley

Newtonian Reflecting Telescope
Edmond Halley
Telescope / Comet 1P/Halley
ICEE / Ascension Island Tracking Station

22 May 1986 - AMERIPEX ’86

Stamp-on-stamp (Skylab / Ascension Island)
Stamp-on-stamp (Lockheed C141 / St. Helena)
Stamp-on-stamp (Bahamas Long Range Proving Ground)
Stamp-on-stamp (North American B25C MItchell)
Statue of Liberty / New York Harbor (souvenir sheet of 1)

30 March 1987 - Quadranscentennial of Friendship 7

Ignition
Lift-Off
Re-entry
Splashdown
Spacecraft / NASA Worm Insignia

17 October 1988 - Lloyd's of London Tercentennial

Lloyd’s Coffee House
Cable Ship Alert
Satellite Recovery EVA
Good Hope Castle Listing & Burning

20 July 1989 - Vigintennial of Apollo 11

Ascension Island Tracking Station
Apollo 7 Launch
Apollo 7 Insignia
Spent Rocket Stage
Lunar Landing Profile

30 September 1989 - Closing of Devil’s Ashpit Tracking Station

Sheet of 10 (475a & 475b)
External View of Station
Space Shuttle Launch

17 October 1991 - Quadranscentennial of the BBC’s Atlantic Relay Station

Station Building
Transmitters
Earth Station
Tower

9 September 1996 - BBC Atlantic Relay Station Tredecennial

Towers 20p
Towers 25p
Towers 30p
Satellite Dish / Towers 65p

23 September 1996 - Christmas 1996

Santa Claus on Satellite Dish
Santa Claus Golfing
Santa Claus on Beach
Santa Claus on Plane
Santa Claus on Ship

1 April 1997 - Flags of Ascension Island

British Red Ensign / Tanker
RAF Ensign / Tristar
NASA “Worm” Patch / Shuttle Atlantis
Royal Navy White Ensign / HMS Northumberland

20 July 1999 - Tredecennial of Apollo 11

Command/Service Module in Facility
Gibbous Moon
Devil’s Ashpit Tracking Station
Lunar Module Liftoff
Earth from Space (souvenir sheet)

13 January 2003 - Ariane Downrange Tracking Station

Ariane 4
Downrange Stations Map
ATV
Ariane 5

souvenir sheet of 4

12 August 2003 - Centennial of Powered Flight

Blériot XI
Vickers VC-10
British Aerospace Sea Harrier FRS1
Westland WS-61 Sea King HAS.4
Rockwell Space Shuttle
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
Fairey Swordfish II (souvenir sheet of 1)

28 October 2004 - Total Lunar Eclipse: 28 October 2004

15p
25p
35p
£1.25
souvenir sheet of 1

24 July 2006 - Anniversaries

pair
HMS Beagle
Charles Darwin
pair
SS Great Britain
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
pair
Niña
Christopher Columbus
pair
Magnetic Map
Edmond Halley

23 May 2008 - Semicentennary of NASA

Bell X-1E
Apollo 11 Moonwalker
Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle
STS-1 on Launch Pad
Hubble Space Telescope
International Space Station