Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.150 Space Medicine #1

The volume comprises a collection of stamps, first day covers, biographies, articles and notes on the theme of space travel and space medicine. The stamps come from all over the world covering Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Oceania and Asia. Additional items are in volumes 151 and 152.

The following people, anniversaries, events and themes are represented in the volume:

Boris Yegorov

Joseph Kerwin

Skylab, the US space station

Echo 1, the world's first communication satellite

John Glenn

50th Anniversary of the Space Age and mankind's first space exploration, 2007

50th Anniversary of NASA, 2008

60th Anniversary of the creation of the Baikonour Cosmodrome

40th Anniversary of the first man on the moon

The role of dogs and other animals in space research and space missions