Orbit Magazine

Issues 31 - 40

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 40

Contents of Orbit 40
Published January 1999

• An Unfulfilled Dream by Yuri Kvasnikov
• Space Veterans: - Jeffrey Hoffman - Vladimir Titov
• Identity Stamp - Iain Waugh
• Adventures in Astrophilately by Bert van Eijck
• Mir 22 Space Mission by John Blaha
• Rocket Mail Pioneers by Bert van Eijck
• Polar-Orbiting Weather Satellites by Donald W. Hillger
• Dreamer and Visionaries by John Berry
• Cosmonaut Leonov as Artist and Space Stamp Designer
• U.S. Rings Dat Bell at Last by Bert van Eijck
• More about Eccles from Andy Swanston
• Apollo XI - 1969-1999 by Peter Hoffman
• Meeting with Cosmonaut Volkov and Engineer Martynov

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Asteroids

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Orbit issue 39

Contents of Orbit 39
Published October 1998

• Mir 22 Space Mission by John Blaha
• Space Veterans: Frankin Chang-Diaz - John Blaha
• Identity Stamp - Peter Hoffman
• John Glenn Flies again this month - 36 year on
• Woomera - A Brief History by John Berry
• Walking on Air by Jeff Dugdale
• Dead Telescope will Live again by Bert van Eijck
• Astro-peripherals: Humour and Comics by Bob Taylor
• Canine Cosmonauts - Animal Astronauts by Andy Swanston
• Intercosmos 1978 Retrospect - Czechoslovakia - Poland - East Germany

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Asteroids
• Book Review

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Orbit issue 38

Contents of Orbit 38
Published June 1998

• Buran - A Bird Whose Wings were Clipped by Jeff Dugdale
• Space Veterans: Shannon Lucid - Anatoly Solovyov
• Space Museums of the World 4 by Bert van Eijck
• Canberra Deep Space Centre by John Berry
• Astro-peripherals - Mike Wright
• The Trojans are coming by Bert van Eijck
• Death of a Hero by Mikhail Vorobyov
• Voshkhod 2 - Walking into Hstory by Jeff Dugdale
• The Kammler Korps by John Berry
• France's First Lady by John Berry
• Dreamer and Visionaries by John Berry

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Asteroids

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Orbit issue 37

Contents of Orbit 37
Published March 1998

• Space Veterans: Story Musgrave - Jerry Ross
• The Kammler Korps by John Berry
• Mir - Men of the 90s by Jeff Dugdale
• ASTP Stamps by Harvey Duncan
• Identity Stamp - Dr. Ross Smith
• Geostationary Weather Satellites by Dr. Donald Hillger
• Major Varieties Discovered by Alan Feasey
• Data Incorrect by Yuri Kvasnikov
• Phantasy and Philately by Jeff Dugdale
• Astro-peripherals - Ray Billings
• Moscow '97 by Yuri Kvasnikov

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Asteroids

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Orbit issue 36

Contents of Orbit 36
Published January 1998

• Canine Cosmonautics by Jeff Dugdale
• Space Veterans: Robert Gibson
• French Observatories on Stamps by Bert van Eijck
• The Kammler Korps by John Berry
• Walter and Schlegel - Spacelab D-2 by Jeff Dugdale
• Adventures in Astrophilately by Bert van Eijck
• Mockba '97 by Mikhail Vorobyov
• The Agony and the Ecstasy - by Dr. Ross Smith
• Astro-peripherals - Ray Billings
• Beck's Best by Harry Rose

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Asteroids

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Orbit issue 35

Contents of Orbit 35
Published October 1997

• Sputnik's 40th Anniversary by Harvey Duncan and Yuri Kvasnikov
• The Foale Story by John Berry
• Identity Stamp - Margaret Morris
• Hello! Anyone Out There? by Bert van Eijck
• Space Veterans: Gennady Strekalov - Norman Thagard
• Phantasy and Philately by Jeff Dugdale
• The Agony and the Ecstasy - by Dr. Ross Smith
• From Hell to the Heavans by Jurgen Esders
• Huygens Honoured in Stamp and Bronze by Bert van Eijck
• Beck's Best by Harry Rose
• The First US Astronaut Crew Patches by Keith Wilson

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Asteroids

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Orbit issue 34

Contents of Orbit 34
Published July 1997

• The Agony and the Ecstasy - by Dr. Ross Smith
• Space Veterans: Vladimir Dzhanibekov
• Identity Stamp - Michael Wright - Mohammed Kamal Safdar
• Space Museums of the World 3 by Bert van Eijck
• Adventures in Astrophilately by Bert van Eijck
• Dreamer and Visionaries by John Berry
• Phantasy and Philately by Jeff Dugdale
• McDivitt and the UFO
• Furrer and Messerschmid - Spacelab D-1 by Jeff Dugdale
• Beck's Best by Harry Rose
• More about Project Volna by Yuri Kvasnikov and Yuri Tondrik
• Astro-peripherals - Ray Billings

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Asteroids

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Orbit issue 33

Contents of Orbit 33
Published March 1997

• Historical Mosaics of British Astronomy by Margaret Morris
• Identity Stamp - Chris Gainor - John J. Macco
• Space Museums of the World 2 by Bert van Eijck
• Ulf Merbold - Germany's most Experienced Astronaut by Jeff Dugdale
• Soviet Intercosmos Issues '78-'87 by Jeff Dugdale
• Phantasy and Philately by Jeff Dugdale
• Vergeltungswaffe - Touche! by Ernest Volkman
• Nippon the Bandwagon by John Berry
• The History of Lunakhod by Yuri Kvasnikov
• Aggregat 4 (V2) on pictorial cancellations by Dr. H. F. Virnich
• Dreamer and Visionaries by John Berry
• Astro-peripherals - Mikhail Vorobyov

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Asteroids

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Orbit issue 32

Contents of Orbit 32
Published January 1997

• British Astronauts to be celebrated on British Stamps!!
• NASA's Incredible Time Machine by Bert van Eijck
• Identity Stamp - Nicholas Steggall
• An Insight on the 1995 US Shuttle Stamps by Bert van Eijck
• Dreamer and Visionaries by John Berry
• Space Veterans: John Young
• Phantasy and Philately by Jeff Dugdale
• From Cosmonaut Sigmund Jahn by Andy Swanston
• Astro-peripherals - Ray Billings
• The Stamps of Project Apollo by Harvey Duncan
• Doctor in Space by Jeff Dugdale
• Beck's Best by Harry Rose

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Asteroids

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Orbit issue 31

Contents of Orbit 31
Published November 1996

• Doctor in Space by Jeff Dugdale
• Identity Stamp - Harvey Duncan - Paul Goldblatt
• Space Museums of the World 1 by Bert van Eijck
• Space Station Missions (8) by Charles Bromser
• Space Phillumeny by Barry Smith
• Rocket Mail War Propaganda by Bert van Eijck
• Dreamer and Visionaries by John Berry
• The Stamps of Project Apollo by Harvey Duncan
• Byways in Astronomy by Margaret Morris
• Doctor in Space by Jeff Dugdale

Plus

• Letters
• New issues guide
• Space News
• Asteroids

 

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