Tag: Stamps
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Save up your pennies for next year’s science stamps, celebrating STEM and astronaut Sally Ride
Four of the postage stamps planned for 2018 focus on science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. (USPS Illustration) If you’re the U.S. Postal Service, how do you follow up on Pluto, planets, “Star Trek” and a total solar eclipse? Here’s how: Next year’s batch of postage stamps will include a memorial to Sally Ride,…
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First-of-its-kind stamp will use body heat to change images in celebration of Aug. 21 solar eclipse
The solar eclipse and full moon images on a Forever stamp coming this summer. (USPS Photo) When you press a stamp onto a letter this summer, be sure to take a second look after you release your finger. The United States Postal Service is releasing a first-of-its-kind stamp that uses body heat to change images.…
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Outdated ‘Pluto: Not Yet Explored’ stamp takes spotlight as most traveled postage
The 1991 stamp that served as the rallying cry for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto is “updated” by members of the New Horizons science team on July 14, 2015, the day the spacecraft reached Pluto. (Credit: Bill Ingalls / NASA) We’ve known for years that a 1991 Pluto stamp included on NASA’s New Horizons…
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Moon stamps make a full-moon debut
You can get 10 “Global Forever” moon stamps on a sheet that looks like the night sky looming above a row of trees. © 2016 USPS Now you can moon your mail carrier … not in the scatological sense, but in the philatelic sense. To celebrate tonight’s full moon, the U.S. Postal Service officially released…
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Postal Service geeks out with space stamps for Pluto, planets, the moon and Star Trek
The U.S. Postal Service’s souvenir sheet of four stamps contains two new stamps appearing twice. The first stamp shows an artist’s rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft and the second shows the spacecraft’s enhanced color image of Pluto taken near closest approach. (Credit: Antonio Alcala / USPS) For the first time since 1991, Pluto and…