Astronauts from the Space Shuttle Challenger

These four astronauts represent the first crew-members to man the Space Shuttle Challenger. 

 

A Child Pretending to be an Astronaut

I love this postcard!  It is postmarked with the stamps and autographs of members 

from the Postcrossing 2025 International Bielefeld, Germany meet-up. 

 

Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-107

STS - 107
Columbia

Space Shuttle Columbia launched on its 28th flight on January 16, 2003 with a crew of seven astronauts.  On February 1, 2003, Shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas, 16 minutes before it was supposed to land in Florida.  All seven crew members were lost.

photo credit: NASA

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The seven crew members who died aboard were:
Rick Husband, Commander;
William C. McCool, Pilot;
Michael P. Anderson, Payload Commander/Mission Specialist 3; David M. Brown, Mission Specialist 1;
Kalpana Chawla, Mission Specialist 2;
Laurel Clark, Mission Specialist 4;
and
Ilan Ramon, Payload Specialist 1

Ames Research Center, VMS Flight Simulation

NASA - Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.  The VMS Flight Simulation Facility.

This vintage postcard is unused.

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This flight simulator has the greatest motion range of any flight simulator in the world. When the pilots are sitting inside they have 'Out-the-Window' Graphics that are computer-generated so it is very realistic. It has also been programed to generate various weather and light conditions.

The Earth's Moon

The Earth's Moon

I bet the poster or what ever this postcard was printed from has some great information!  Most of it is too small to read.  I can see it comes from the National Geographic Society Magazine.

This postcard was mailed from Russia in 2019.

Apollo 11's 50th Anniversary Postcard for International Postcard Week

Happy International Postcard Week - October 6-12, 2019

This postcard is to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

For this years postcard, I decided to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.  It is amazing how far we have come in 50 years!  Back then you needed an entire room for a computer, now you can hold one in the palm of your hand.

Take care,
Brenda

On the font is:
Neil Armstrong, Michael Conllins and Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin.

This postcard was postmarked with two 2019 'First Moon Landing' stamps.

Apollo 11 Insignia

Apollo 11

John F. Kennedy Space Center
N.A.S.A.
The official Apollo 11 Insignia

This postcard is unused.

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The Apollo 11 mission emblem was designed by Michael Collins, who wanted a symbol for "peaceful lunar landing by the United States". At Lovell's suggestion, he chose the bald eagle, the national bird of the United States, as the symbol. Tom Wilson, a simulator instructor, suggested an olive branch in its beak to represent their peaceful mission. Collins added a lunar background with the Earth in the distance.

Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins decided not to put their names on the patch, so it would "be representative of everyone who had worked toward a lunar landing".

Planet Mercury in 3D

Mercury - Mercure - Mercurio

Mercury, Venus, Earth and mars are depicted at 5 times the scale of the Sun and other planets.  Main planet on the A side not to scale.

This 3D postcard was bought in Finland in 2017.  

Venus, Hemispheric View

A Hemispheric View of Venus
This view of Venus is the result of over a decade of radar investigations by the Magellan spacecraft, which revealed that the planet's surface is between three hundred and six hundred million years old.

This postcard was postmarked in 2018.

Saturn's Moons, Enceladus and Tethys

Enceladus and Tethys
Two of Saturn's moons were lined up when Cassini captured this image with its narrow-angle camera, which was aimed at the unlit side of Saturn's rings. Enceladus, in the foreground, is roughly 313 miles (504 kilometers) across, while Tethys is 660 miles (1,062 kilometers) across.

This was postmarked in 2018.