| Australia 1971 (02 Aug) Set of 3 Space Covers APOLLO 15 FALCON Lift Off Date
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| Australia 1971 (02 Aug) Set of Three Space Covers with either no cachet or purple/brown cachet "TO HONOUR/APOLLO MISSION/IMAGE OF SPACECRAFT ON MOON`s SURFACE" or blue cachet "IMAGE HELICOPTER/SPACE CAPSULE ON SEA/TO/ HONOUR/APOLLO/ MISSION" and purple circular handstamp "UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY/FLEURS RADIO/OBSERVATORY" and addressed to Glenelg or Goodwood or unaddressed (Air Mail) South Australia and affixed with 6c Sturt`s Desert Rose stamps cancelled "SYDNEY/12 30 AM/2AUG/1971/NSW AUST" and wavy line cancel. "Falcon" lifted off the Moon at 17:11:22 GMT on August 2 1971 after 66 hours and 55 minutes on the lunar surface. Fleurs is situated about 40 km west-south-west of central Sydney near Badgery`s Creek, and occupies an expanse of flat land between South Creek and Kemps Creek adjacent to a disused WWII air strip. Between 1954 and 1963, Fleurs was the leading field station of the CSIRO`s Division of Radiophysics, and was home to three innovative cross-type radio telescopes, the Mills Cross, Shain Cross and the Chris Cross, all of which played important roles in furthering international radio astronomy (Robertson, 1992).
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Item #: INV-130915
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