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Orbit Magazine

Issues 91 - 100

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.

It has a semi-professional editor, and regularly has over 36 A4 pages, often accompanied by special supplements. Collectors and dealers advertising keep members up to date on market values and assist obtaining needed stamps, covers, post-cards, autographs and all space related collectibles.

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Orbit Issue 91 - Published October 2011

Orbit issue 91

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Contents Orbit 91

Fifty Years ago - Vostok 2
Moon-waling into History
The Naming of Craters - Mercury
A Brief History of Ozone-Monitoring Satellites and Instruments.
The Modern Flying Dutchman
Ancient and Modern - Space Probes, Projects and Programmes
Gagarin 50 Issues
US Space Cover Collector's Handbook
Spacecraft Launch Sites
Titov - the Back Story
How Romania has Celebrated Spaceflight
From Magnet to Multi-Media

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Orbit Issue 92 - Published January 2012

Orbit issue 92

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Contents Orbit 92

Fifty Years ago - Mercury 7
Prague's Astronomical Orloj - by Umberto Cavallaro
The Naming of Craters - Venus
Andriyan Gregoryevitch Nikolayev (1929-2004)
New Jodrell Bank Stamp - by Ian Ridpath
Ancient and Modern - Space Probes, Projects and Programmes
Un-manned Satellites on Postage Stamps 36
Pavel Popovich's Vostok 4
Spacecraft Launch Sites
Apollo 11 Insurance Covers by Umberto Cavallero
Al-Sufi's Book of the Fixed Stars by Ian Ridpath
Conquerors of the Cosmos Obelisk by Jim Reichman
From Magnet to Multi-Media
Little Known Apollo Flights by John Beenen

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Orbit Issue 93 - Published March 2012

Orbit issue 93

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Contents Orbit 93

Fifty Years ago - Mercury 7 - Part 2
Apollo 16 : April 1972 Retrospect by Peter Hoffman
The Naming of Craters - Mars
Harvey Duncan (1935-2012)
Un-manned Satellites on Postage Stamps 39
Italy and the Shuttle :1 - Spacelab by Umberto Cavallaro
Birds Legs, Stuffy Noses and Puffy Faces - part 1 by John Beenen
A Pathfinder in South Africa by Bert van Eijck
The First Man on the Moon by Umberto Cavallaro
Private Mail Companies - Personalized Space Stamps by Jurgen P. Esders
From Magnet to Multi-Media
Tartu Club Space Covers by Jim Reichman

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Orbit Issue 94 - Published June 2012

Orbit issue 94

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Contents Orbit 94

The Paisley Rocketeers
The Naming of Asteroids
Italy and the Shuttle :2 - Spacelab by Umberto Cavallaro
Swim suits, Golf clubs and Cordless tools by John Beenen
Shuttle Story : 2010/11 STS 133, STS 134, STS 135
Ancient and Modern - Space Probes, Projects and Programmes
ATV - a challenging new topic for Astrophilately collectors by Umberto Cavallaro
A French Golden Jubilee by Bert van Eijck
Classic Soviet Astrophilately - Cosmonautics day 1962 issues by Jim Reichman
From Magnet to Multi-Media by John Beenen

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Orbit Issue 95 - Published October 2012

Orbit issue 95

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Contents Orbit 95

Our New Chairman
Our New "Chairman Emeritus" - Thank You Margaret
40 Years on
Apollo 17: December 1972 Retrospect by Peter Hoffman
Standard Baikonur Cosmodrome Postmarks by Jim Reichman
The Naming of the Jovian Moons
Ancient and Modern - Space Probes, Projects and Programmes
The First Official Baikonur Postmark by Julius Cacka
The Baikonur-Karaganda Fakes by Umberto Cavallaro
Hello Again Hong Kong by Bert van Eijck
From a Tropical Xmas to a Space Sheet by Bert van Eijck
Fifty Years Ago - Mercury 8
The Passing of Legends
Space Shuttle-related Satellites by Don Hillger and Garry Toth

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Orbit Issue 96 - Published January 2013

Orbit issue 96

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Contents Orbit 96

Royal Mail's 2012 Space Science Set by Ian Ridpath
Neil Armstrong: reluctant, modest Hero
Who inspired two generations with "one small step" by Umberto Cavallaro
Travelling In A Time Machine by Bert van Eijck
Soyuz Flights to the ISS—John Macco and Jim Roth
Our New "Chairman Emeritus" Thank You Margaret !!
Stamp Story in Singapore from Bert van Eijck
The Naming of Saturn's Moons
Let's Celebrate 25 years of the A.S.S.S.— born in 1988
Spacehab: the Italian bridge towards ISS by Umberto Cavallaro
Early Soviet Propaganda-Design Satellites By Don Hillger and Garry Toth
Superstition, Ritual and Tradition in a High Tech Context
Armstrong Memorial Issue Design Error
From Amsterdam to Astrolabium by Bert van Eijck
Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) - on 500+ stamps

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Orbit Issue 97 - Published March 2013

Orbit issue 97

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Contents Orbit 96

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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