Orbit Magazine
Issue 114
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 114 - Published October 2017
Contents Orbit 114
Sputnik—the “beep” that shook the world
USSR-USA space race, ignited in Italy by IAC by Umberto Cavallaro
Soyuz 8 Tracked By NORAD
Frogs In Space
The Write Stuff
Un-manned Satellites on Postage Stamps: 42
By Guest Contributors Don Hillger and Garry Toth
Women Spacefarers – Sixty Different Paths to Space
Nik’s News & Musings
Star of Columbus -
Russian Satellite that Brought Gifts to America
by Jim Reichman
Early British Rockets—from Bob Catto
Postage stamps defining social history : An example of cold-war politics
The Olympus Satellite on Stamps,
by Guest Contributor Susan M. Thatcher
David Bowie Stamps In Space
Czechoslavkia’s Mini-sheet Showing Mars 1
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