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Object details:

Object Name: Stamp, Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, 12 Kopeks
Smithsonian Record ID: edanmdm:nasm_A19780354000

	Object Name
	Stamp, Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, 12 Kopeks

	Metadata Usage
	Not determined

	Guid
	http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv952a5cb65-272b-4866-91a4-4ee54ee3ce8a

	Data Source
	National Air and Space Museum

	Astronaut
	Aleksei Arkhipovich Leonov

	Astronaut
	Donald K. Slayton

	Astronaut
	Thomas P. Stafford

	Astronaut
	Valerii Kubasov, 1935-2014

	Astronaut
	Vance D. Brand

	Materials
	Paper

	Materials
	Ink

	Materials
	Adhesive

	Dimensions
	2-D - Unframed (H x W): 6.7 × 3.3cm (2 5/8 × 1 5/16 in.)

	Dimensions
	Storage: 11.7 × 11.7 × 5.1cm (4 5/8 in. × 4 5/8 in. × 2 in.)

	Summary
	This 12-kopek stamp commemorates the flight of the Apollo-Soyuz Test project in July 1975 that was the first international joint human spaceflight mission in history. One of the methods through which governments may attempt to popularize major programs is through the use of stamps. During the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth at the end of the Tsarist period, Russian stamps featured exploration projects and the personalities associated with them. In the twentieth century, stamps often featured major development projects and Russian and Soviet scientists and artists. At the dawn of the space age, it was no surprise that the Ministry of Communications (which included Telephone, Telegraph and the Post) chose stamps with themes that honored Soviet activities in space. The Military Attache to the Soviet Embassy in Washington gave this stamp to the Smithsonian in the late 1970s.

	Country of Origin
	USSR

	Credit Line
	Gift of USSR Embassy

	Inventory Number
	A19780354000

	Type
	LITERATURE AND RESEARCH-Philately

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