Space and Astronomy Stamps - Antigua and Barbuda

Background information about Antigua and Barbuda

The Antiguan flag depicts a rising sun. Thus, any stamps sitewide depicting the Antiguan flag are included as topical matches.

Issue Date / Set Description

Description

17 May 1965 - International Telecommunication Union Centennial

International Telecommunication Union Insignia 2c
International Telecommunication Union Insignia 50c

29 March 1968 - Dow Hill Tracking Station

Antenna
Antenna / Rocket Launch
Lunar Orbit
Re-entry

15 July 1974 - Universal Postal Union Centennial

Mailman / Coach / Helicopter
Bellman / Mailboat / Satellite
Mailtrain Guard / Bus / Hydrofoil
Messenger / Coach / Concorde
Mailmen / Carrier Pigeon
Mailman / Satellite Dish / Seaplane
Courier / Train / Jet Plane
souvenir sheet of 7

circa 1974 - Universal Postal Union Centennial Surcharge

15 July 1974: Mailman / Satellite Dish / Seaplane

21 July 1975 - Navigation

Map & Sextant
Map
Then & Now
Locales

28 December 1976 - Events of 1976

Hermes
Alfred Nobel
Viking Missions
Cricket
Telephone Centennial
Sailing Ship
souvenir sheet of 4

29 April 1979 - International Year of the Child

Sailboat
Rocket
Car
Train
Plane

5 April 1983 - World Communications Year

Television
Radio
Telephone
Earth Station
Communications Satellite (souvenir sheet of 1)

24 March 1986 - Comet 1P/Halley

Edmond Halley
Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet
Montezuma
Pocahontas
Comet 1P/Halley over Antigua (souvenir sheet of 1)

22 October 1986 - Comet 1P/Halley Logo Overprints

24 March 1986: Edmond Halley
24 March 1986: Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet
24 March 1986: Montezuma
24 March 1986: Pocahontas
24 March 1986: Comet 1P/Halley over Antigua (souvenir sheet of 1)

24 November 1989 - Vigintennial of Apollo 11

Liftoff
Moonwalking
Eagle Rising
Splashdown
Neil Armstrong (souvenir sheet of 1)

11 June 1990 - Space Achievements

sheet of 20
Voyager 2 / Saturn
Pioneer 11 / Saturn
Manned Maneuvering Unit
Shuttle Columbia
Apollo Splashdown
Skylab
Ed White’s Spacewalk (Gemini 4)
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (Apollo spacecraft)
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (Soyuz spacecraft)
Mariner 1
Gemini 4
Sputnik 1
Hubble Space Telescope
North American X-15
Bell X-1
Apollo 17
Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle
LEM (Apollo 14)
Moonwalkers (Apollo 11)
Lunokhod

circa 1992 - Events

Cosmonauts
Airships
St. John’s Cathedral
Konrad Adenauer
Emil “Bus” Mosbacher
Rain Forest
Tiger
Flag / Plant
Stage Performance
Women Carrying Baskets
Lions Club International
West German / NATO Flags
Long March 2 Rocket
Hugo Eckener
LZ 129 Hindenburg (souvenir sheet)
Brandenburg Gate (souvenir sheet)
Butterfly (souvenir sheet)
Hermes / Space Station (souvenir sheet)

16 August 1993 - Nicolaus Copernicus

Sextant
Supernova
Nicolaus Copernicus (souvenir sheet)

4 August 1994 - Quadranscentennial of Apollo 11

sheet of 6
Buzz Aldrin
Footprint
Neil Armstrong
Decending the LEM Ladder
Deploying Experiments
American Flag
sheet of 6
Tranquility Base
Plaque
Eagle Rising
Columbia in Orbit
United States #C76 Airmail Stamp
Richard Nixon / Neil Armstrong / Michael Collins / Buzz Aldrin
Neil Armstrong / Buzz Aldrin / Postmaster General (souvenir sheet of 1)

6 June 1996 - Disney Characters / Jules Verne Works

Around the World in Eighty Days 1c
Journey to the Center of the Earth 2c
Michel Strogoff
From the Earth to the Moon 10c
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Around the World in Eight Days 20c
The Mysterious Island
From the Earth to the Moon $2
Captain Grant’s Children
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea $5
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea $6 (souvenir sheet)
Journey to the Center of the Earth $6 (souvenir sheet)

21 September 1998 - Aviation

sheet of 6
Space Shuttle
Saab JAS 39 Gripen
Eurofighter EF2000 Typhoon
Sukhoi Su-27
Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit
Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk

10 November 1998 - Inventors

sheet of 8
Rudolf Diesel
Diesel Engine
Union Army Balloon Corps Intrepid
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Wilhelm Röntgen
X-Ray Machine
Saturn V Rocket
Wernher von Braun
sheet of 8
Karl Benz
Internal Combustion Engine
Atomic Bomb
Albert Einstein
Leopold Godowsky, Jr. & Leopold Mannes
Kodachrome
Turbojet Airplane
Hans von Ohain
Hans Geiger (souvenir sheet)
William Shockley (souvenir sheet)

18 November 1998 - Semicentennial of the Organization of American States

Insignia (Earth / Sun)

6 May 1999 - Space Exploration

John Glenn (sheet of 4)
Entering Capsule
Portrait
Donning Spacesuit
Training
Probes (sheet of 6)
Luna 2
Mariner 2
Giotto
ROSAT
International Ultraviolet Explorer
Ulysses
Probes (sheet of 6)
Mariner 10
Luna 9
Astrophysics Facility
Magellan
Pioneer Venus
IRAS
Salyut 1 (souvenir sheet)
Mir (souvenir sheet)

26 June 2000 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

souvenir sheet of 3
Alexey Leonov
Soyuz 19
Valeri Kubasov

Alexey Leonov / Thomas Stafford (souvenir sheet)

26 June 2000 - Space Achievements

souvenir sheet of 6
Sputnik 1
Explorer 1
Mars Express
Luna 1
Ranger 7
Mariner 4
sheet of 6
Mariner 10
SOHO
Mariner 2
Giotto
Exosat
Pioneer
Hubble Space Telescope (souvenir sheet)

Vostok 1 (souvenir sheet)

15 June 2001 - MV Freewinds

Maiden Voyage
45c
75c
90c
2482
Eclipse Cruise (souvenir sheet of 1)
Curacao (souvenir sheet of 1)

12 December 2002 - Science Fiction

Nostradamus (souvenir sheet of 1)

2001: a Space Odyssey (souvenir sheet of 1)

Are We Alone? (souvenir sheet of 1)

28 July 2003 - History of Aviation

sheetlet of 4
Orville & Wilbur Wright
Paul Cornu’s Helicopter
Eugene Burton Ely Lands on a Ship
Curtiss A-1

sheet of 4
Bell X-5
Vertical Takeoff & Landing
North American X-15
Vostok 1

sheetlet of 4
Concorde
Martin Marietta X-24A
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Viking
Boeing Model 200 Monomail (souvenir sheet of 1)
Bell X-1 Breaks Sound Barrier (souvenir sheet of 1)
Grumman X-29 (souvenir sheet of 1)

22 November 2004 - The Family Circus

sheet of 4
Strip
Strip
Strip
Strip
Strip
sheet of 4
Strip
Strip
Strip
Strip
Strip

sheet of 4
Strip (astronaut reference)
Strip
Strip
Strip
Strip
sheet of 4
Strip
Strip
Strip
Strip
Strip
sheet of 4
Strip
Strip
Strip
Strip
Strip

15 June 2005 - Jules Verne Centennial

sheet of 4
Monster Island
Journey to the Center of the Earth
From the Earth to the Moon
Sea Devils
Michael Strogoff (souvenir sheet of 1)

15 November 2006 - Space Achievements

STS-1 (sheet of 6)
Shuttle Mission Simulator
Crew in Classroom
STS-1 on Launch Pad
Launch
Shuttle Columbia Landing
Shuttle Columbia on Runway

Luna 9 (sheet of 4)
Launch Vehicle
Luna 9
Images Taken of the Moon
Landing Capsule

Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (sheet of 4)
Apollo Crew Boarding Crew Transfer Van
Handshake in Space
Plaque
Recovery of Crew

Back to the Moon (souvenir sheet of 1)

Calipso (souvenir sheet of 1)

Mir Space Station (souvenir sheet of 1)

circa 2008 - Semicentennial of the Space Age

Explorer 3 (sheet of 6)
Explorer 3 Display (x2)
Explorer 3 in Orbit (x2)
Van Allen Radiation Belts (x2)

Explorer 3 (sheet of 4)
Aurora / Explorer 3 (x2)
Explorer 3 (x2)

Explorer 3 / Cutaway View of Van Allen Belts (souvenir sheet of 1)

Vanguard 1 (sheet of 6)
Spherical Vanguard 1 (x2)
Vanguard 1 in Earth Orbit (x2)
Vanguard 1 with Cylindrical Extension (x2)

Vanguard 1 (sheet of 4)
Vanguard 1 with Cylindrical Extension (x2)
Orbital Sunrise / Vanguard 1 (x2)

Vanguard 1 over North America (souvenir sheet of 1)

circa 2008 - Star Trek: The Original Series

sheet of 6
Kirk / Spock
Scott / McCoy / Kirk / Spock (“Spectre of the Gun”)
Woman / Spock
Starbase 11 (“Court Martial”)
Uhura
Scott
souvenir sheet of 4
McCoy
Spock
Kirk
Sulu

13 November 2009 - International Year of Astronomy / Quaddecennial of Apollo 11

sheet of 4
Mission Insignia / Americaqn Flag on Moon
LM on Moon
Experiment Package
Saturn V on Launch Pad

CSM (souvenir sheet of 1)

circa 2011 - Semicentennial of John F. Kennedy’s Inauguration

The First Manned Flight into Space (sheet of 4)
John F. Kennedy / Mercury Spacecraft
$2.75
$2.75
John F. Kennedy Pointing into Sky
John F. Kennedy Gesturing at Podium (souvenir sheet of 1)

9 September 2011 - Semicentennial of Manned Spaceflight

sheet of 4
Yuri Gagarin in Flight Suit
Vostok 1 Ground Track
Strap-On Separation
“Gus” Grissom / Launch of Liberty Bell 7
sheet of 4
Kosmonaut Yuri Gagarin Tracking Ship
Launch of Vostok 1
Vostok 1 Mission Insignia
Mercury Spacecraft / Alan Shepard
Vostok 1 Spacecraft / Earth (souvenir sheet of 1)
Yuri Gagarin in Pilot’s Garb (souvenir sheet of 1)