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PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. (818) 354-5011
Contact: Mary A. Hardin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESeptember 23, 1991
The public is invited to attend a special ceremony at
10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, 1991, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
to commemorate the introduction of a set of U.S. postage stamps
depicting planetary exploration.
The hour-long ceremony will feature statements from
Anthony M. Frank, U.S. postmaster general, and Jose L.
Castellanos, postmaster of Pasadena, and remarks from Dr. Edward
C. Stone, Jr., director of JPL. The U.S. Marine Corps marching
band will perform.
In addition to the ceremony, postal workers will be
selling the stamps and other items from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in JPL's
von Karman Auditorium.
The sets feature 10 stamps, each with a picture of one
of the nine planets in our solar system and the Earth's Moon;
each is shown with one of the spacecraft that have journeyed to
it. Pluto is the only planet not yet explored. The stamps
show Mariner 10 at Mercury, Mariner 2 at Venus, the Landsat
satellite above the Earth, the Lunar Orbiter at the Moon, the
Viking Orbiter at Mars, Pioneer 11 at Jupiter, Voyager 2 at
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and a solitary Pluto waiting to be
visited.
The stamps were designed by artist Ron Miller of
Fredericksburg, Virginia. The $5.80 stamp booklet contains two
panes of 10, 29-cent stamps.
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