Orbit Magazine
Issue 97
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 97 - Published March 2013
Contents Orbit 97
2013 - Year of the Aurora
IGY Cover Study Uncovers Issue date Error by Jom Reichman
Fifty Years Ago - Mercury 9
The Blue Marble Image of the Earth By Don Hillger and Garry Toth
Mars A Second Earth? by Bert van Eijck
Conjugating the Magnetosphere with ARAKS by Jim Reichman
Let's Celebrate 25 years of the A.S.S.S. - born in 1988
Twenty Years of Italians in Space by Umberto Cavallaro
The Naming of the Uranian Moons
ISS - New Official OnBoard Postmark by Igor Rodin
The Struve Geodetic Arc
Something Special from Czechoslovakia by Bert van Eijck
The Mission that Failed by Bert van Eijck
Belgian FDC travelled to the International Space Station
Voskhod, the most dangerous spacecraft ever flown by John Beenen
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