Аннотация:The first original space stamps were issued on November 5, 1957 by the Soviet Union. They represent the Sputnic 1 satellite in orbit around the globe, with words “October 4,1957. The Soviet artificial Earth’s satellite, first in the world”. Before the end of 1957 as many as 15 stamps dedicated to Sputnik were issued by four countries (USSR, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and the German Democratic Republic). In the following years, space stamps dedicated to the most important satellites multiplied and in 1969, the year of the conquest of the Moon, at least 88 countries from all continents have already issued space stamps. Of about two thousand stamps. Approximately half of this material was devoted to astronauts and satellites of the USA and the first satellites launched from France, Italy, Canada, and UK. Since the 70s many other countries, such as Japan,, China, India and Indonesia, Israel, Sweden, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and many others, will issue commemorative stamps of their national satellites. In 1969, the Apollo 8 issue received 900,000 First-Day cancels while others received less than half this amount.
Many of the stamps and poster documents, particularly those issued by major
