Space and Astronomy Stamps - Comoros (الإتّحاد القمريّ)

The Comoran flag depicts stars and a crescent, which is likely rooted in the mythology of the region. Thus, any stamps sitewide depicting the Comoran flag are included as topical matches.

Issue Date / Set Description

Description

5 December 1962 - Trans-Atlantic Telecommunication

Telstar / Globe

17 May 1965 - International Telecommunication Union Centennial

Syncom / International Telecommunication Union Insignia

17 January 1966 - Astérix

Launch
Satellite
pair

16 May 1966 - Diapason (D-1)

Satellite

5 September 1973 - Science

Gerhard Armauer Hansen
Nicolaus Copernicus

circa 1975 - Etat Comorien Surcharges

#C62
#C50
#C63
#C51
#C47
#C23
#C37
#C48
#C34
#C44
#C36
#C49
#C55
#C35
#C38
#C64
#C60
#C66
#C57
#C61
#C54
#C52
#C53
#C68
#C56
#C67
#C59

15 December 1975 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

Soyuz 19 Liftoff / Alexey Leonov / Valeri Kubasov
Apollo Liftoff / Thomas Stafford / Vance Brand / “Deke” Slayton
Handshake in Space
Leonid Brezhnev / Gerald Ford
Rendezvous
Return to Earth
Crews (gold foil)
Mission Insignias / Spacecraft (souvenir sheet)
Rendezvous (souvenir sheet) (gold foil)

1 July 1976 - Telephone Centennial

Alexander Graham Bell / Telephone
Paris-London Phone Service
Telephone Operators
Earth-Moon Communications
Satellite
Ship-Satellite Communications
Satellite / Satellite Dish (souvenir sheet)
Communications (souvenir sheet)

23 November 1976 - Viking Program

Nicolaus Copernicus / Launch
Albert Einstein / Carl Sagan / Thomas Young
Probe in Orbit
Norse Exploration of America
Landing on Mars
Insignia / Martian Landscape
American Pioneer / Launch (gold foil)
Probe (souvenir sheet)
Probe on Mars (souvenir sheet)(gold foil)

25 November 1976 - Quadranscentennial of the United Nations Postal Administration

UN #24 / Farming
UN #43 / Medical Personnel
UN #162 / Mother & Child
UN #42 / Satellite
UN #32 / Concorde / Zeppelin
UN #18 / Cargo Plane
Letters Around the World

30 December 1976 - American Bicentennial

Fort Sumter
Bull Run
Antietam
Gettysburg
Chattanooga
Appomattox
John F. Kennedy / Lunar Module (gold foil)
Surrender at Appomattox (souvenir sheet)
Abraham Lincoln / Battlefield (souvenir sheet)(gold foil)

21 November 1977 - Space Exploration

Jupiter Probe
Voyager / Uranus
Pioneer / Venus
Space Shuttle
Viking / Mars
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Symbolic Sun / Space Shuttle / Space Probes / Constellations (souvenir sheet)

16 December 1978 - Europe

10fr
25fr
35fr
50fr
100fr
500fr
Satellite / Africa (souvenir sheet of 1)

19 February 1979 - Voyager Probes

Galileo Galilei / Voyager 1
Johannes Kepler / Voyager 2
Nicolaus Copernicus / Voyager 1
Christiaan Huygens / Voyager 2
William Herschel / Voyager 2
Urbain Le Verrier / Voyager 2
Voyager 1 / 2 (souvenir sheet)

30 May 1979 - International Year of the Child

Logo / Apollo Moonwalker / Child in Costume
Logo / Bobsledder / Child with Snowboard
Logo / Painting / Child Painting
Logo / Steam Locomotive / Child with Toy Train
Logo / Adult Soccer Players / Children Playing Soccer
Logo / Olympic Rowers / Child in Rowboat
Logo / Karl Benz / Child in Toy Car (souvenir sheet of 1)
Logo / Louis Blériot / Child with Radio-controlled Plane (gold foil)

15 September 1979 - République Fedérale et Islamique des Comores Overprints

#176
#198
#218
Nimbus
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
#187
#159
#160
#Molniya

30 April 1980 - Semicentennial of the Discovery of 134340 Pluto

Johannes Kepler / 134340 Pluto / Nicolaus Copernicus

13 July 1981 - American Space Exploration

Apollo Program
Shuttle Columbia 75fr
Shuttle Columbia 100fr
Shuttle Columbia 450fr
Shuttle Columbia 500fr (souvenir sheet)

11 March 1985 - Stamp Exhibition Overprints

Hamburg ‘85 / #521 (souvenir sheet)
Tsukuba ‘85 / #540 (souvenir sheet)
Argentina ‘85 / #545 (souvenir sheet)
Italia ‘85 / #C126 (souvenir sheet)
Lausanne ‘85 / C131 (souvenir sheet)

30 November 1985 - Rotary International

Globe / Ship / Plane / Apollo Command/Service Module 25fr
Globe / Ship / Plane / Apollo Command/Service Module 75fr
Globe / Ship / Plane / Apollo Command/Service Module 125fr
Globe / Ship / Plane / Apollo Command/Service Module 500fr

7 March 1986 - Comet 1P/Halley

Halley / Giotto
Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner
Comet 2P/Encke
Comet Bradfield (C/2004 F4)
Planet A

circa 1988 - Space Achievements

sheet of 8
Galileo Galilei
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Edmond Halley
Planet A
International Cometary Explorer
Planet A
Venera-Halley

circa 1988 - 1988 Calgary Winter / Seoul Summer Olympic Games

Figure Skating
Running
Speed Skating
Equestrian
Luge
Biathlon
Pole Vault
Soccer
Downhill Skiing / Satellite (souvenir sheet)
Track / Satellite (souvenir sheet)

circa 1988 - Space Achievements

Edmond Halley / Venera-Halley (souvenir sheet)

6 December 1988 - Famous Men

Yuri Gagarin
Henry Dunant
Roger Clemens
Garry Kasparov
Paul Harris
souvenir sheet of 5
Rotary International (gold foil)
Neil Armstrong / John F. Kennedy (souvenir sheet)
Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker / Rotary International Insignia (souvenir sheet) (gold foil)

10 April 1989 - 1988 Seoul Summer Olympic Games Equestrian Teams

Aussat K3 / West Germany
Brazilsat / France
European Communications Satellite 4 / Hungary
Olympus / New Zealand
France (gold foil)
Satellite / West Germany (souvenir sheet)
West Germany (souvenir sheet)(gold foil)

26 November 1990 - Events

Hubble Space Telescope
Pope John Paul II / Mikhail Gorbachev
Kevin Mitchell Wins NL MVP
Charles de Gaulle / Konrad Adenauer
Cassini Probe
TGV / Concorde
Garry Kasparov Becomes World Chess Champion
Paul Harris

17 May 1991 - Moroni Satellite Earth Station

Satellite Dish 75fr
Satellite Dish 150fr
Satellite Dish 225fr
Satellite Dish 300fr
Satellite Dish 500fr

18 November 1991 - Events

Columbus Satellite
Mohandas Gandhi
Henry Dunant
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Brandenberg Gate
Konrad Adenauer
Elvis Presley
souvenir sheet of 6
Fredinand von Zeppelin
souvenir sheet of 1

30 March 1992 - Space Exploration

Ham the Chimpanzee
Mars Observer
Felix the Space Cat
Mars Rovers
Phobos Probe
souvenir sheet of 3 (#s 784, 786-7)
Laika
souvenir sheet of 3 (#s 783, 785, 788)
Viking Probe (souvenir sheet)

28 May 1992 - Voyages of Discovery

Shuttle Endeavour / James Cook
Satellite / Francis Drake
Infrared Space Observatory / John Smith
Gravity Probe B / Robert F. Scott
Magellan / Ferdinand Magellan
XMM-Newton / Vasco da Gama
souvenir sheet of 6
Hermes / Columbus (souvenir sheet)

17 May 1993 - World Telecommunication Day

International Telecommunication Union Insignia 50fr
International Telecommunication Union Insignia 75fr
International Telecommunication Union Insignia 100fr
International Telecommunication Union Insignia 150fr

circa 1998 - Meteorites

sheet of 9
Martian
Antarctic
Chrondite
Archrondite
Octahedrite
Iron
Tektite
Chrondrite Olivine
Iron

circa 1999 - Space Achievements

sheet of 3
Shuttle Discovery / Buran
Ariane V
John Glenn / Saturn V
sheet of 3
Valentina Tereshkova
Laika / Bielka
Yuri Gagarin
Shuttle Discovery / John Glenn (souvenir sheet of 1)

1 October 2008 - Conquest of Mars

sheet of 6
Spirit
Mars Polar Lander
Viking
Mars Climate Observer
Phoenix
Sojourner
Mariner 3 (souvenir sheet of 1)

7 January 2009 - Astronauts

sheet of 6
Yuri Gagarin / Vostok 1
Neil Armstrong / Apollo 11
Alan Shepard / Apollo 14 / Hubble Space Telescope
Valentina Tereshkova / Vostok 6
Pavel Popovich / Soyuz 14
John Glenn / Friendship 7
Yang Liweh / Shenzhou 5 (souvenir sheet of 1) (L. Gordon Cooper / Mercury Spacecraft in margin)

1 July 2009 - Celebrities

Chinese Celebrities (sheet of 6)
Zhai Zhigang
Yo-yo Ma
Lucy Liu
Mohandas Gandhi
Yao Ming
Tania Sachdev
George Clooney / Benjamin Franklin (souvenir sheet of 1) (Shuttle launch in margin)
Hidetoshi Nakata / Eiji Toyoda (souvenir sheet of 1) (satellite in margin)