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Hi Kris, When I was a graduate student, my Ph.D. thesis advisor named her computers after famous animals that had been in space on early U.S. and Soviet rockets. We put together a web site about them that shows some images of postage stamps with pictures of Soviet space dogs from that era. It is still...

Chris S Does anyone collect space related stamps?

Hi Evelyn I don't really collect coins or stamps though I do have some special "space" stamps that my great uncle sent me when I graduated from college. He was a big stamp collector and was so excited that I was going to work at NASA that he sent me a congratulations card that was covered...

Hi Evelyn! In Finland where I live now a stamp series with aurora will be released this year (so not excatly the picture of the Sun, but something beatiful related to the activity from the Sun). The pictures have been taken by Jouni Jussila. Below are some sample images how pretty the stamps will look...

I had a fairly extensive coin collection that I inherited from my father (who had been in World War 2). But (several years ago) I let my daughter take the album to elementary school and it disappeared. (sigh). But yes, when I'm visiting a foreign country I like to bring back commemorative stamps...

Hi Evelyn, I don't really have a huge stamp or coin collection, but I have saved a few interesting coins and stamps from my travels to different places around the world. I also have a sheet of those Star Wars stamps issued by the US Post Office a couple of years ago and some stamps with images of...

Evelyn S (FOX) Do any of you collect coins, stamps, and if so, do any of them have the sun on them as part o ftheir artwork?