Space and Astronomy Stamps - Romania (România)

Postal Administration: Posta Romana
Currency: Romania uses the Romanian new leu. As of February 2012, one Romanian new leu equals 0.30940 US dollars.

Issue Date / Set Description

Description

18 April 1947 - Soviet Institute of Roman Studies Semipostals

Victor Babeş
Mihai Eminescu
Nicolae Grigorescu
Peter Mogila
Aleksander Pushkin
Mikhail Lomonosov
Peter Tchaikovsky
Ilya Repin

30 June 1949 - Dodranscentennial of the Universal Postal Union

Globe / Posthorn
Mail Transportation

6 November 1957 - Sputnik 1 / Sputnik 2

Satellite / Globe (ultramarine)
Satellite / Globe (bluish green)
Orbits / Globe (ultramarine)
pair (#s C49, C51)
Orbits / Globe (bluish green)
pair (#s C50, C52)
unnumbered overprints for 1958 Brussels World

20 December 1957 - Sputnik 2

Probe / Laika (blue / dark brown)
Probe / Laika (greenish blue / chocolate brown)

20 September 1958 - Sputnik 3

Orbit / Globe

4 February 1959 - Luna 1

Earth / Rocket / Sun

14 September 1959 - Luna 2 Overprint

#C58

circa December 1959 - Soviet Milestones

Biosatellite
Far Side of the Moon
Luna 3

8 June 1960 - Sputnik 4

Rocket / Face

19 April 1961 - Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin (vertical)
Yuri Gagarin (horizontal)

13 June 1961 - Total Solar Eclipse: 15 February 1961

Partial Eclipse / Cityscape
Corona / Observatory Dome

11 September 1961 - Early Soviet Cosmonauts

Vostok 2
Gherman Titov
Yuri Gagarin / Gherman Titov

25 October 1961 - Great Cultural Celebrations 1961

Heraclitus
Francis Bacon
Rabin-dranath Tagore
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Heinrich von Kleist
Mikhail Lomonosov

27 July 1962 - Peaceful Space Exploration

Space Stamps / Dove 35b
Space Stamps / Dove 55b
Space Stamps / Dove 1.35l
Space Stamps / Dove 1.75l
souvenir sheet of 4

20 August 1962 - Early Soviet Cosmonauts

Andrian Nikolayev
Globe / Trajectories
Pavel Popovich

circa 1963 - Vostok 5 / Vostok 6

Valery Bykovsky 55b
Valentina Tereshkova 1.75l
souvenir sheet of 2
Valery Bykovsky 1.20l
Valentina Tereshkova 1.60l

29 April 1963 - Luna 4

Probe / Moon
Probe / Moon (imperforate)

15 November 1963 - Universal Postal Union Congress

#1256
#1200
#C104a
#s C123, C125
#965
1.60l + 50b

15 January 1964 - Early Astronauts / Cosmonauts

Yuri Gagarin
Gherman Titov
John Glenn
Scott Carpenter
Andrian Nikolayev
Pavel Popovich
Wally Schirra
L. Gordon Cooper
Valery Bykovsky
Valentina Tereshkova
unlisted souvenir sheet of 1

20 June 1964 - Death Anniversaries

Mihai Eminescu
Ion Creangă
Emil Girleanu
Michelangelo
Galileo Galilei
William Shakespeare

30 November 1964 - Romanian Olympic Gold Medals

Kayaking / 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympic Games
Boxing / 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympic Games
Pistol / 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympic Games
Womens’ High Jump / 1960 Rome Summer Olympic Games
Wrestling / 1960 Rome Summer Olympic Games
Skeet Shooting / 1960 Rome Summer Olympic Games
High Jump / 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games
Javelin / 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games
satellite orbiting medal (imperforate)

5 January 1965 - Satellites

Syncom 3 30b
Syncom 3 40b
Ranger 7 55b
Ranger 7 1l
Voskhod 1
Vladimir Komarov / Konstantin Feoktistov / Boris Yegorov

25 April 1965 - Ranger 9 Overprint

#1714

15 May 1965 - International Telecommunication Union Centennial

International Telecommunication Union Insignia / Equipment

25 August 1965 - Satellites

Voskhod 2
Intelsat I (a.k.a. Early Bird)
Gemini 3

7 November 1965 - Seminonagintennial of the Russian Revolution

Lenin / Cruiser Aurora

25 December 1965 - Space Research

Proton 1
Zond 3
Molniya 1
Mariner 4
Gemini 5

25 June 1966 - Space Achievements

Venera 3
FR-1
Luna 9
Gemini 6A / Gemini 7

15 February 1967 - Ten Years of Space Exploration

Sputnik 1
Vostok 1
Vostok 6
Vostok 3 / Vostok 4
Voskhod 2
Intelsat I (a.k.a. Early Bird)
Mariner 4
Gemini 6A / Gemini 7
Gemini 8

28 August 1968 - 1968 Mexico City Summer Olympic Games

Stone of the Sun / Javelin
Stone of the Sun / Diving
Stone of the Sun / Volleyball
Stone of the Sun / Boxing
Stone of the Sun / Wrestling
Stone of the Sun / Fencing
Stone of the Sun / Canoeing
Stone of the Sun / Soccer
Stone of the Sun / Running (souvenir sheet) (imperforate)

circa 1969 - Apollo 8 / Soyuz 4 / Soyuz 5

Apollo 8 Trajectory
Soyuz 4 / Soyuz 5 / Globe

15 June 1969 - Apollo 9 / Apollo 10

Apollo 9 Command/Service Module / Lunar Module
Apollo 10 Lunar Module over Moon

24 July 1969 - Apollo 11

Lunar Module / Moonwalker

24 November 1969 - Apollo 12

Lunar Module

29 June 1970 - Apollo 13

Splashdown

5 March 1971 - Luna 16 / Lunokhod 1 / Apollo 14

Luna 16
Lunokhod 1
pair
Apollo 14

26 July 1971 - Soyuz 11

Georgi Dobrovolski / Vladislav Volkov / Viktor Patsayev

26 August 1971 - Apollo 15

Lunar Rover / Moonwalkers

20 December 1971 - Men of Science

Ferdinand Magellan
Johannes Kepler
Yuri Gagarin
Ernest Rutherford

10 May 1972 - Apollo 16

Lunar Rover / Moonwalkers / Sub-Satellite

27 December 1972 - Apollo Program

Apollo 1 / Apollo 2 / Apollo 3
“Gus” Grissom / Ed White / Roger Chaffee
Apollo 4 / Apollo 5 / Apollo 6
Apollo 7 / Apollo 8
Apollo 9 / Apollo 10
Apollo 11 / Apollo 12
Apollo 13 / Apollo 14
Apollo 15 / Apollo 16
Apollo 17
Lunar Roving Vehicle / Lunar Module / Moonwalkers
Map of Landing Sites (imperforate souvenir sheet)

19 February 1973 - Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

15 June 1973 - Meteorological Cooperation

World Meteorological Organization Insignia / Weather Satellite

25 April 1974 - European Cooperation

Map of Europe
Satellite
pair

14 December 1974 - Skylab

Skylab / Earth

14 July 1975 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

Before Docking
After Docking

1 February 1977 - Cheia Telecommunication Station

Satellite Dish

15 April 1978 - 1978 FIFA World Cup

55b
1l
1.50l
2.15l
3.40l
4.80l
10l (souvenir sheet) (satellite in margin)

23 October 1979 - 1980 Moscow Summer Olympic Games

Melbourne Cricket Ground
Stadio Olimpico, Rome
National Olympic Stadium, Tokyo
Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Mexico City
Olympiastadion, Munich
Le Stade Olympique, Montréal
Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow (souvenir sheet) (Ekran satellite in margin)

circa 1981 - Soyuz 40

Soyuz 40
Soyuz 40 / Salyut 6
Crew / Spacecraft (souvenir sheet)

30 June 1981 - Solar System

Sun / Mercury
Venus / Earth / Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune / 134340 Pluto
Earth (souvenir sheet)
Solar System (souvenir sheet) (imperforate)

24 January 1983 - History of Spaceflight

Henri Coandă
Hermann Oberth
Sputnik 1
Vostok 1
Apollo 11
Shuttle Columbia
Globe (souvenir sheet)

16 May 1983 - Famous Men

sheet of 4
Johannes Kepler
Alexander von Humboldt
Goethe
Richard Wagner
sheet of 4
Ion Andreescu
George Constantinescu
Tudor Arghezi
Constantin Ion Parhon

27 January 1986 - Comet 1P/Halley

Edmond Halley / Comet 1P/Halley
Probes
Probes / Comet 1P/Halley (souvenir sheet) (imperforate)

25 September 1987 - Legende sau basmele românilor, by Petre Ispirescu

Făt-Frumos cel rătâcit
Sarea in bucate
Ileana Simziana
Prâslea cel voinic şi merele de aur
George cel viteaz
Porcul cel fermecat
Greuceanu (restoring the Sun and the Moon) (souvenir sheet)

25 October 1989 - Vigintennial of Apollo 11

Conrad Haas
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Hermann Oberth
Robert H. Goddard
Sergey Korolyov
Wernher von Braun
Neil Armstrong / Eagle (souvenir sheet) (imperforate)

10 May 1991 - Europa 1991

EUTELSAT 1

25 May 1994 - Europa 1994

sheet of 2 w / 2 labels
Hermann Oberth
Henri Coanda

8 December 1995 - 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympic Games

Gymnastics (souvenir sheet) (satellite in margin)

22 April 1996 - ESPAMER ’96

Insignia / Dumitru Prunariu (souvenir sheet)

27 September 1997 - Aeromfila ’97 Overprint & Surcharge

10 May 1991 - EUTELSAT 1

28 December 1998 - Total Solar Eclipse: 11 August 1999

Eclipsed Sun / Map of Romania

21 June 1999 - Total Solar Eclipse: 11 August 1999

Eclipsed Sun / Globe

9 August 1999 - Luciano Pavarotti Concert

Luciano Pavarotti / Eclipsed Sun

unlisted sheetlet of 4

28 August 2000 - 20th Century

Sputnik 1
Yuri Gagarin
First Heart Transplant
Neil Armstrong

circa 2001 - 20th Century

Mariner 9
Augustin Malor
Cave Drawings
Nadia Comăneci
Pioneer 10
Fall of the Iron Curtain
First Microprocessor
Hubble Space Telescope

19 January 2001 - Third Millennium

Earth from Space / Fireworks

23 November 2001 - Signs of the Zodiac

Scorpius
Aries
Libra
Taurus
Capricornus
Gemini
Cancer
Pisces
Leo
Aqarius
Sagittarius
Virgo

2 July 2003 - Nostradamus

pair
Nostradamus
Astrological Chart

26 January 2004 - Information Technology

sheetlet of 4
Earth / Satellite / CD-ROM
Laptop Screen
Earth / Satellite Dish
Laptop Keyboard

19 May 2006 - Quadranscentennial of Soyuz 40

22 April 1996 - ESPAMER ’96 souvenir sheet (gold ink)
22 April 1996 - ESPAMER ’96 souvenir sheet (silver ink)

24 August 2007 - Rumäniendeutsche

Johannes Honter
Hermann Oberth
Stephan Ludwig Roth

4 October 2007 - Semicentennial of Sputnik 1

Sputnik 1 / Earth / Moon

Sputnik 1 / Earth (souvenir sheet of 1)
sheet of 8 w/ center label
sheet of 8 w/ different center label

22 February 2008 - Semicentenary of Space Exploration

Explorer 1
Sputnik 3
Jupiter AM-13 / Gordo the Monkey

6 May 2009 - Europa 2009

Lunar Phases / Galileo Galilei / Leaning Tower of Pisa
Antiquarian Star Charts

souvenir sheet of 4 (2 x each design)
souvenir sheet of 4 (2 x each design) (different)

20 July 2009 - Quaddecennial of Apollo 11

Buzz Aldrin Descending Lunar Module Ladder (circular stamp)

Lunar Footprint (souvenir sheet of 1)

20 November 2009 - Christmas 2010

Nativity / Magi / Star of Bethlehem
sheet of 4

circa 2011 - Semicentennial of Manned Spaceflight

Dumitru Prunariu / Launch of Soyuz 40 (circular stamp w/ selvage)
Yuri Gagarin / Launch of Vostok 1 (circular stamp w/ selvage)
Earth (souvenir sheet of 1 circular stamp) (various Soviet space hardware in margin)

circa 2011 - Signs of the Zodiac

sheet of 6
Aries
Taurus
Gemini
Cancer
Leo
Virgo
sheet of 6
Libra
Scorpius
Sagittarius
Capricornus
Aquarius
Pisces