Orbit Magazine

Issues 11 - 20

ORBIT is the official quarterly publication of The Society, full of illustrations and informative space stamp and space cover articles, postal auctions, space news, and a new issues guide.

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Orbit issue 20

Contents of Orbit 20
Published in April 1994

• International Space Station
• Mir Space Station
• Book Review: Apollo
• Astro Update by Charles Bromser
• Newton and the Melon by Nigel Harpham
• Goddard's Rockets
• The Lunokhod Moon Rovers by Nicholas Steggall
• Rocket Pioneers by H. Duncan

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Contact Column

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Orbit issue 19

Contents of Orbit 19
Published in January 1994

• Astro-Lets
• Astro Update by Charles Bromser
• USSR -Austrian Space Flight - October 1991
• Mercury 3 - Freedom 7 by Tony Bird
• A warning about Soviet Forgeries
• New Services for Members
• Translation from the Russian
• Competition results
• My Space Collection by Harvey Duncan
• National Astronomy Week ‘96
• Hubble Space Telescope - Back of beyond.
• Worlds First Livestock Rocket flight.

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Contact Column

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Orbit issue 18

Contents of Orbit 18
Published in November 1993

• My Space Collection by Harvey Duncan.
• The First Australian Rocket Mail
• Project Gemini
• Animals in Space
• Project Mercury - Ham the Chimpanzee
• Peenemunde Space Card Offer
• Astro Update by Charles Bromser
• Glossary of Common Space Terms
• Soviet Space Cancellations
• Project Saturn - 4 November 1959
• The Earth from Space by Nicholas Steggal
• What the Astro Space Stamp Society’ means to me by Tony Bird
• Hubble Telescope explores Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon 10
• "Firsts" in the Russian Space Program
• My Favourite Cover by R. Atkinson
• Astronauts Autographs

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Contact Column

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Orbit issue 17

Contents of Orbit 17
Published in August 1993

• Pete Conrad inducted into Astronaut Hall of Fame
• My Favourite Cover from Charles Bromser
• New Satellite Hologram Stamp
• Hologram Stamps - But How?
• More about Space Perfin stamps
• Going Up - future Space launches
• Samoa - 10th Anniversary of First Moon landing
• Rocket Pioneer - Stephen H. Smith
• Astro Update by Charles Bromser
• Apollo 13 - April 11-17 1970
• Gulliver and the Moons of Mars by George W Fox
• Kazakhstan’s First Stamps by Charles Bromser
• He was the Astronauts Chef by Alec Bailey
• Astronaut Addresses.
• The Yunnan Observatory
• USA Space Shuttle visit to Stanstead -1983
• Willy Ley - Rocket Mail Pioneer by Bert van Eijck
• Space Medals of Honour

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Contact Column

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Orbit issue 16

Contents of Orbit 16
Published in April 1993

• Astro update by Charles Bromser
• Ausroc 2 Launch from Woomera
• A Russian Intercosmos Label
• ESA and the European Space Industry
• Going up – Launch News
• Soviet – Syrian Space Flight 1987
• The First Space Perfin Stamp
• U.K. Space Postmarks during 1991
• International Year of Space – Malawi
• Mars Probe (Kosmos 419)
• A Cover that made a round trip
• Is there anybody out there?
• Stanstead Airport – June 1983
• Space Artifacts

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Contact Column

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Orbit issue 15

Contents of Orbit 15
Published in December 1992

• Austrian Space Travel Pioneer Honoured
• Canada in Space - New Issue
• Latest Space News from "Spaceman"
• Soviet - G.B. TM-12 Space Flight by John Holland
• First British School Experiment in Space
• Astro Update by Charles Bromser.
• Astro-lets
• U.S.S.R. Cosmic Post by John Holland
• Soviet/U.S. Cooperation
• Some Very useful Contacts from "Sputnik"
• Has it been flown twice?

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Contact Column

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Orbit issue 14

Contents of Orbit 14
Published in September 1992

• Rocket Mail Pioneers by Bert van Eijck
• Royal Australian Mint Space Coin
• Silly Season Souvenir Sale
• USSR Cosmic Post Souvenir by John Holland
• News from Belgium
• Signed Covers by Andy Swanston
• Astro—Lets Offers
• Astro Update by Charles Bromser.
• International Space Year Issue from Japan
• Galactic Quest by Ian Ridpath.
• NASA ‘GEOTAIL’ launched
• British Space firms & universities

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Contact Column

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Orbit issue 13

Contents of Orbit 13
Published in June 1992

• Obtaining Signed Covers by Andy Swanston
• Going Up – A space calendar by Harvey Duncan
• Printers of Stamps – Information
• Astro update by Charles
• Minehead Space Age Festival
• Intelsat & British Industry in Space Events
• Holiday Competition
• Directory of Space Stamp Collectors
• International Space Year
• Freedom Space Station
• Ciskei - New Stamps
• Space Science: Ulysses spacecraft
• U.S. Space Stamp booklet
• Philatelic Bureau Addresses

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Contact Column

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Orbit issue 12

Contents of Orbit 12
published April 1992

• Salyut 6 - 96 days in space F.D.C.
• Apollo 15 - 26 July 1971.
• Apollo 12 remembered.
• Finland — Europe in Space 199!
• Consort 5 mission.
• Jules Verne - (1828-1905).
• Freedom Space Station update.
• Astro world Update by Charles Bromser.
• Have we got news for You!
• My favourite Cover - Andy Swanston.
• Norway - Europe in Space 1991.
• International Space Year 1992.
• British Industry in Space Year.
• The Chief Designer - S. P. Korolev.
• The almost complete Space Shuttle Tracking network.
• Space development dates.
• Apollo Flight crews listing.
• 1984 Swedish Space First day cover.

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Contact Column

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Orbit issue 11

Contents of Orbit 11
published December 1991

• A Transmission from the Chairman
• Hungary - Europe in Space
• Cyprus - Europe in Space
• Soviet Cosmic Cachets and ASSS News,
• Reach for Your Dreams — Tony Bird,
• Malta - Europe in Space.
• Sweden - Europe in Space.
• Space Station Freedom Reviewed & Vostok 2 remembered
• Space Exploration Initiative – The Mission to Mars
• The First Austrian in Space.
• Astronomy Spare Science News by Sputnik.
• Mission to Planet Earth and other News by Sputnik
• International Scientific Seminar
• Ulysses on Voyage and other news by Sputnik
• Soviet Cosmic Cachets
• Astro Space Update by Charles Bromser
• Bill Thornton - A Doctor in Space by George Spiteri
• Astronaut Training & Helen Sharman
• Rocket Nail Pioneers by Bert van Eijck
• Astrophysics on 1987 Swedish Stamps

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Contact Column

 

 

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