Development of aerospace and spaceflight shown by astrophilatelic documents as there are stamps, photos, flown covers, space mail, proofs and historical documents partly with autographs which have been as well exhibit in several astrophilatelic Exhibitions worldwide.

News !!!

Our next exhibitions of an improved exhibit with 10 frames and a lot of new and rare items will to be seen from 17th May to 20th May 2018 in Lugano (Switzerland) during the Rang 1 exhibition, including the Sieger Apollo 15 flown MOON cover and the Apollo 14 MOON cover from Ed Mitchel, one insurance cover Apollo 11, the PICCARD, COSINS stratosphere flown balloon cover from 1932, the KIPFER letter, the belgium stamp set PICCARD, signed by himself, the Tiling flown cover, some new Schmiedl flown covers and premercury records and some new flown ISS space mails adressed to the collector.

In the last exhibition in Danmark in Rang 1 (international) we got 88 points and the grand vermeil medal

What an Astronaut can see at night from the Orbitalstation ISS,

please take your time for some minutes and enjoy this impressions from ISS by watching the earth before you are going to start your journey through the last 80 years of manned spaceflight exploration in our collection of space related items. ( many thanks to Robin Lachhein for his kindly permission to use this video)

                                  Here you can see the current position of the Orbitalstation ISS

                                                     Position of ISS right now (Google, pls click)

In this collection there will be shown a huge summary of photos and scans of philatelic items as there are spacestamps, FDC´s, not issued postalic items, documents, flown covers, space mails, original signed  covers and stamps by the astronauts and photos partly signed from the beginning of the first astronomers to the current Sojus and chinese Shenzhou missions.

That means that we are showing items from the astrophilatelic and from the thematic area together. 

We are living in Germany and the philatelic items have been collected by ourself over the last years and will be updated frequently.

We are given as well for each chapter a short summery of  the development for each spaceprogram of the concerned nations.

We are member of the German Astrophilatelic group. 

All items are genuine and are coming out from all our friends all over the world who are collecting the same.

The objective of this summery is to make public to all interested people worldwide what space related items are availible and what was issued to proof this space events.

We personally wish to come in more contact with interested people to exchange informations and items, you can contact us via our given emailadress  (stlachhein@aol.de) or the guestbook.

The collection started with an introduction how to achieve the manned space flights today and is divided in the different rocket and space programs of the participated nations and all parts are until now under construction.

All informations are taken from the public website Wikepedia or coming  out from private communactions even from perosnal known astronauts and cosmonauts and all shown items are from the private collection.

We try to get from each mission at least one item for confirming this event.

(The homepage will be completed by around end of 2014, nearly all chapters are until now under construction)

In our collection there are shown six separated or finished chapters and collections under the items 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 and 9, as there are the following exhibition collections:

4- the exhibition collection of QATAR spacestamps and postal history

5- the exhibition collection of the Space Shuttle BURAN from the USSR

6- the exhibition collection of the  CHINESE manned spaceflight development until SHENZHOU 10

7- the exhibition collection of ERROR space stamps and PROOFS of space stamps

8- Exhibition: How the mankind dream became true to reach the stars (milestones of aerospace 
   development)

9- Space mail, flown covers/items and private mails from Saljut-3,4,5,6 and 7, MIR station and ISS      orbitalstation and chinese flown covers

(all chapters are updated last time on 14.05.2016)

If you like or dont like this homepage or if you have some proposals for improvement please led a message in the guestbook at the end of this page.

We would like to get as well some more informations concerning our Qatar space stamps collection and the Qatar postal history!

If you would like to sell some items what is missing in our collection to us, you are very welcome to offer.

Thank you very much for your feedback!

==>    go to the introduction

The collection is divided in the different mission programs of the three main participated nations as there are US, Russia (USSR) and China.

 ==> Here you can go to our collection by click (to enlarge the pictures pls click on the same) 

Qatar, a small but very important country in the gulfarea, has issued some nice space stamps honoring the development of spaceflight exploration mainly of the US.

We have presented our well known collection (only some items are missing) during a lecture about Qatar 2009 in Aschaffenburg (Germany) and have shown after a short introduction of the postalic history of Qatar the collection with all genuine stamps  and informations about it.

Some new facts and stamps are coming out from our own investigations and are published for the first time.

This chapter is nearly finished and complete!!

 ==> Qatar space stamps (qatar stamps) lecture, collection  and Qatar postal hisitory

We are presenting our BURAN exhibition collection and are given a short abstract of the history and

development of the Orbiter Shuttle of the USSR, the so called BURAN , analog to the Space Shuttle STS of the US.

This chapter is finished and complete!!

==> Space Shuttle BURAN exhibition collection and Space Shuttle BURAN history

In this chapter we are showing the development and history of manned chinese spaceflight from the beginning of the first unmanned Shenzhou flights until the current manned Shenzhou spaceflights.

We are presenting our exhibition collection with a big numbers of flown covers and stampsheets and original autographes from the selected and flown taikonauts.  

This chapter is finished and complete until Shenzhou 10 spaceflight!!

==>Chinese manned spaceflight development and Shenzhou exhibition collection

In this chapter we will present  some of the existing errors and varities  of space stamps and the existing postalic proofs of space stamps. We have collected worldwide this errors and proofs over many years, but it is clear that this chapter never can be completed due to the huge number of errors and proofs and the very high prices of this items.

On the other hand this items are often so rare that it is very difficult to find them in the market, so that it is for certain interest to present.

For this reason this chapter can only show a small selection of this items and can only stay all the time incomplete.

Nevertheless you can get a first impression what is availible outside the normal existing stamps.

This chapter is until now under construction.

==>Errors, rarities, varities  of space stamps and space stamps proofs worldwide and exhibition collection

Here is shown a complete exhibition collection which was shown in 2014, 2015 and 2016 in Gmunden (Austria), Essen and Berlin in the competition.

2014 Gmunden Briefmarkensaloon

==> How the mankind dream became true to reach the stars (milestones of the aerospace development)

2015 Gmunden Briefmarkensaloon

== >How the mankind dream became true to reach the stars (milestones of the aerospace development)

2016 Essen Briefmarkenmesse

== >How the mankind dream became true to reach the stars (milestones of the aerospace development)

2016 Berlin Rossica

== >How the mankind dream became true to reach the stars (milestones of the aerospace development)

Here is shwon a short collection of items which have been flown into space to the different orbitalstations over the last 40 years as there are covers, personal mails, photos, stamps by different spaceships from the US, Russia and China. As well there are shown the personal mails which have been sent  from the ISS to the collector by the russian cosmonauts.

== > Space mail, flown covers/items and private mails from Saljut-3,4,5,6 and 7, MIR station and ISS      orbitalstation and chinese flown items

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