Work in progress – Mar 2020. At this stage i’m not collecting the photographic/engraved cachets, but everything else.
Some of these might actually be ‘Astro’ covers, it can be difficult to tell them apart.
Click here for post-66 ‘Orbit Covers’.
My ‘Orbit Covers’ Collection (pre-1966)
1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965
1960 | Back to Year choices
Echo 1 (FDI stamp) – 15th Dec 1960:
1961 | Back to Year choices
Saturn SA-1 – 27th Oct 1961:
Transit 4-B – 16th Nov 1961:
Ranger 2 – 18th Nov 1961:
1962 | Back to Year choices
Composite 1 – 24th Jan 1962:
Ranger 3 – 26th Jan 1962:
Tiros 4 – 8th Feb 1962:
John Glenn / Friendship 7 – 20th Feb 1962 [see verso]:
Astronaut John Glenn Receives NYC Medal of Honor – 1st Mar 1962:
Ranger 4 – 23rd Apr 1962:
Ariel 1 – 26th Apr 1962:
Moon Soft Landing / Mars and Venus Probe – 8th May 1962:
Anna 1A – 10th May 1962:
Project Mercury MA-7 / Aurora 7 / Scott Carpenter – 24th May 1962:
Tiros 5 – 19th Jun 1962:
Telstar 1 – 10th Jul 1962:
Mariner 1 – 22nd Jul 1962:
Mariner 2 – 27th Aug 1962:
Tiros 6 – 18th Sep 1962:
Ranger 5 – 18th Oct 1962:
Anna 1B – 31st Oct 1962:
Relay 1 – 14th Dec 1962:
1963 | Back to Year choices
Syncom 1 – 14th Feb 1963:
Telstar 2 – 7th May 1963:
Tiros 7 – 19th Jun 1963:
Syncom 2 – 26th Jul 1963:
Project Gemini / Two Man Space Capsule / JFK Memorial – 22nd Nov 1963:
Centaur AC-2 – 27th Nov 1963:
Explorer XVIII – 27th Nov 1963:
Tiros 8 – 21st Dec 1963:
Spy in the Sky (KH-4 26) – 21st Dec 1963:
1964 | Back to Year choices
Relay 2 – 21st Jan 1964:
Echo 2 – 25th Jan 1964:
Saturn SA-5 – 29th Jan 1964:
Ranger 6 – 30th Jan 1964:
UK 2 – 27th Mar 1964:
Ranger 7 – 28th Jul 1964:
Syncom 3 – 19th Aug 1964:
OGO – 5th Sep 1964:
Saturn SA-7 – 18th Sep 1964:
Mariner 3 – 5th Nov 1964:
Mariner 4 – 28th Nov 1964:
Surveyor-Model 1 – 11th Dec 1964:
Explorer XXVI – 21st Dec 1964:
1965 | Back to Year choices
Tiros 9 – 22nd Jan 1965:
LES 1 – 11th Feb 1965:
Saturn SA-9 / AS-103 / Pegasus Satellite – 16th Feb 1965:
Ranger 8 – 17th Feb 1965:
Beacon Explorer C – 29th Apr 1965:
Comsat Early Bird – 2nd May 1965:
Tiros 10 – 2nd Jul 1965:
Mariner 4 / 1st Close-up Photos of Mars – 14th Jul 1965:
Surveyor-SD 2 – 11th Aug 1965:
Twin Satellites Launch – 15th Oct 1965:
IQSY Explorer 30 – 19th Nov 1965:
Explorer 31 / Alouette 2 – 28th Nov 1965:
Pioneer 6 – 16th Dec 1965:
