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US stamps showcase NASA in 2016
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This souvenir stamp sheet depicts an artists’ rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft and an enhanced color image of Pluto taken during the flyby. (USPS/Antonio Alcalá © 2016 USPS)
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These stamps show some of the images of planets obtained during the last half-century of space exploration. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune each have their own stamp. Some of the stamps show what someone might observe by looking at the planets from space, whereas others were designed using imaging data to showcase certain features. (USPS/Antonio Alcalá © 2016 USPS)
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This image was taken as the full moon rises. (USPS/Greg Breeding under the art direction of William Gicker © 2016 USP)
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, the US postal service issued a series of forever stamps. These illustrations show the Starship Enterprise, the silhouette of a crewman in a transporter, the silhouette of the Enterprise, and the Enterprise inside the outline of the Vulcan statue, respectively. (USPS/Heads of State under the art direction of Antonio Alcalá © 2016 USPS)
