Space and Astronomy Stamps

Postal Administration: Montserrat Philatelic Bureau
Currency: Montserrat uses the East Caribbean dollar. As of February 2012, one East Caribbean dollar equals 0.37200 US dollars.

Issue Date / Set Description

Description

17 May 1965 - International Telecommunication Union Centennial

International Telecommunication Union Insignia 4c
International Telecommunication Union Insignia 48c

19 September 1983 - Manned Flight Bicentennial

Montgolfier Brothers’ Balloon
De Havilland Twin Otter 310
Wiley Post’s Winnie Mae Lockheed Vega
R34 Airship
souvenir sheet of 4

circa 1986 - Comet 1P/Halley

Bayeux Tapestry 35c
Adoration of the Magi, by Giotto di Bondone 50c
Edmond Halley / Trajectory 70c
1066 / 1910 Sightings $1
1910 Sighting $1.15
Giotto / Comet 1P/Halley $1.50
Hubble Space Telescope / Comet 1P/Halley $2.30
1910 Photograph $4
souvenir sheet of 4
Bayeux Tapestry 40c
Adoration of the Magi, by Giotto di Bondone $1.75
Edmond Halley / Trajectory $2
1066 / 1910 Sightings $3
souvenir sheet of 4
1910 Sighting 55c
Giotto / Comet 1P/Halley 60c
Hubble Space Telescope / Comet 1P/Halley 80c
1910 Photograph $5

13 June 1987 - CAPEX ‘87 Overprints

souvenir sheet of 4
#613a
#613b
#613c
#613d
souvenir sheet of 4
#614a
#614b
#614c
#614d

19 December 1989 - Vigintennial of Apollo 11

Lunar Module Ascent Stage
Neil Armstrong on Ladder
Moonwalker / Lunar Module
Recovery
Moonwalker (souvenir sheet)

16 January 1992 - Quincentennial of the Voyages of Christopher Columbus

sheet of 7
Navigational Instruments
Christopher Columbus / Coat of Arms
Christopher Columbus / Bahamians
Christopher Columbus / Isabella I of Castile
Birds
Plants
Santa Maria / Pinta / Niña

20 July 1994 - Space Anniversaries (overprints)

Lunar Module Ascent Stage / Vostok 1 slogan
Neil Armstrong on Ladder / Apollo-Soyuz Test Project slogan
Moonwalker / Lunar Module / Apollo 11 slogan
Recovery / STS-1 slogan

15 August 1995 - Semicentennial of the End of World War II

pair
V-2 Rockets
Shuttle Challenger
pair
First Nuclear Reactor
Modern Atomic Energy Plant
pair
Junkers Ju 88G-7a
Boeing E-6 Mercury
pair
Gloster Meteor III
Concorde

19 March 1996 - Radio Centennial

Guglielmo Marconi
Marconi’s Yacht
First Transatlantic Radio Message
First Radio Station
Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope (souvenir sheet)

circa 1998 - Total Solar Eclipse: 26 February 1998

Homes near Shore
Mountain Tops
Ash on Home
Rising Steam
Eclipse (souvenir sheet of 1)

18 May 1998 - Famous People of the 20th Century

Jean-Henri Dumant
Mohandas Gandhi
Pablo Picasso
David Ben-Gurion
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wernher von Braun
Eva & Juan Perón
Konrad Adenauer
Mao Zedong
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Charles Lindbergh
Anne Frank
John F. Kennedy (souvenir sheet)

circa 2008 - Semicentenial of the Space Age

Explorer 1 (sheetlet of 4)
Explorer 1 Launch Vehicle
James Van Allen
Explorer 1 in Orbit
Scientists Holding Explorer 1 Model Aloft

Explorer 1 / Aurorae (souvenir sheet of 1)