Canada Post released a set of two stamps to underline the country’s contributions to the Apollo 11 mission. These interesting items also commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first manned mission to the moon. The pair is tete-beche, with one item upside down in relation to the other. The top stamp depicts the Apollo 11 command and service modules and Earth. The bottom stamp shows the lunar lander Eagle nearing the surface of the moon. This special issue was designed by Matthew Clark of Subplot Design Inc. of Vancouver.
Canadian engineers working at NASA, and a company based in Longueuil, Que. that built part of the lunar lander, were instrumental in making the mission a success. The engineers who worked on this project are James Chamberlin (1915-81) and Owen Maynard (1924-2000), and the company is Heroux-Devtek. They are honored on Canada Post’s official first-day cover, which was canceled at Longueuil and includes portraits of Chamberlin and Maynard on the front and their biographies on the reverse. According to Canada Post, the stamps also include hidden images of the moon and stars that are visible under ultraviolet light.
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