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Orbit Magazine
Issue 60
ORBIT is the official quarterly publication of The Society, full of illustrations and
informative space stamp and space cover articles, postal auctions, space news, and a
new issues guide. (See below for viewing and download links)
Orbit Issue 60 - Published January 2004
Contents Orbit 60
Our fiftieth issue and 15th anniversary - Tony Bird.
Mercury 3 - 40th anniversary.
Helen Sharman - 10th anniversary.
Members Profiles - Julius Cacka, Derek Clarke.
Apollo 15 Retrospect - Peter Hoffman.
Planets and Probes - to Mars : Mars, Mariner, Viking, Pathfinder.
Space Veterans #21 - Marsha Ivins.
Space Stamp Cachets from East Germany #2 - Ivor Steadman.
A Starring Role - constellations #3 - Ian Ridpath.
Intercosmos Retrospect - Mongolia and Rumania in 1981 - Alexander Zheleznyakov.
Mail carried by Shen Zhou 1 - Bart Beimers.
Chronology of Cosmology #10 - Ryle, Hewish, Penzias, Wilson and Hawking.
A Legion of Errors in Millennium space stamps - George Fox.
Invitation to ASTRO Stampex in London in September.
Guinness Records philatelically illustrated #5
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Orbit issue 60 has five parts.
Orbit issue 60 Part 1
Orbit issue 60 Part 2
Orbit issue 60 Part 3
Orbit issue 60 Part 4
Orbit issue 60 Part 5
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