On 20 July 2024, the 51³Ô¹Ï Postal Administration (UNPA) will issue?six se-tenant postage stamps and three souvenir sheets to commemorate International Moon Day. The stamps feature various pictures from lunar missions.

The General Assembly declared International Moon Day, to be observed annually on 20 July in its resolution on ¡°International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space¡±.

The day was chosen to honour the anniversary of the first landing by humans on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission and to raise awareness about the commitment to sustainable lunar exploration on the part of national and international space programmes worldwide.

The stamps and souvenir sheets feature the following:

Stamps

  • 73?:?Danuri (Credit: KARI)

  • $1.65: Surveyor 1 (Credit: NASA/JPL)

  • HF 1,20: Chandrayaan-3

  • CHF 1,90: SLIM - Smart Lander for Investigating Moon?(Credit: JAXA/TOMY/Sony Group CORP/Doshiva University)

  • €0,95: SMART-1 (Credit: ESA/Space X)

  • €1,20: Chang¡¯ E5 (Credit: CNSA)

Souvenir Sheets

  • $1.55; Apollo 11 (Credit: NASA)

  • CHF 2,50:?Luna 2

  • €1,90: Chang¡¯ E 4 (Credit: CNSA)

The 51³Ô¹Ï Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) works to promote international cooperation in the peaceful use and exploration of space?and in the utilization of space science and technology for sustainable economic and social development.

A statement by Aarti Holla-Maini, Director of UNOOSA, appears on the souvenir sheets:?

¡°Today¡¯s moon exploration is wreathed with ambitious plans, but the expansion?of our so-far pristine horizons must take place sustainably. The 51³Ô¹Ï will leverage its unique convening power to foster the necessary dialogue on the way forward.¡±

Rorie Katz of the UNPA is the designer of the stamp sheet.

The stamps are available online at and in-person from shops at the UN headquarters in New York, Geneva and Vienna where the stamps can be used for mailing. Follow UNPA on?,?, and?.

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