![]() From 110 finalists, four winning illustrations were chosen to be featured on the set of stamps. The children were encouraged to design stamps with their vision of the 21st century. Children from the US, Canada, China, Israel, and other countries submitted over 120,000 entries. Prior to the stamp show, the USPS announced it’s Stampin the Future design contest for children ages 8-12. This was in conjunction with the Stampin’ the Future stamps issued on July 11, at the show. About 100 young artists from two-dozen countries attended the show as part of this congress. US #3414-17 – The set of four Stampin the Future stamps.Īnother special event held in conjunction with World Stamp Expo 2000 was the USPS’s World Kids Congress. If you look closely, you’ll see there’s more selvage area on the press sheet that was cut off of the souvenir sheets. You can order the complete press sheet above, or get a complete set of all the souvenir sheets here. On July 11, all of these space stamps were also issued in a special uncut press sheet, giving collectors a chance to own the stamps as they looked when they came off the printing press. US #3409-13 – Uncut mint sheet of 5 souvenir sheets. Clockwise, from the top, the stamps show: the sun’s corona at the peak of an eclipse an artist’s representation of the cross-section of the sun’s interior a computer-enhanced NASA photograph taken from space of a sunrise over Earth an image recorded from the Skylab space station of a solar eruption and an Earth-based photograph of the sun shining through a cloud-dotted sky. Each of the five stamps features a different representation of the sun. The selvage shows Saturn with its distinctive rings, and a few of its moons, including Dione. Special perforating dies were molded to give these five stamps their unique look. The sheet of five $1 Exploring the Solar System stamps includes another first – the first pentagon-shaped US stamps. The final sheet in the set was issued on July 11. US #3410 features the first pentagonal US stamps. These include the Hubble Telescope, the National Science Foundation’s 27-dish Very Large Array radio telescope, the twin domes in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the white domes at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Each stamp features a different telescope or device used by astronomers to observe our solar system and deep space. The sheet’s selvage shows a digitally enhanced image of the Eagle Nebula taken by the Hubble telescope. Its 60¢ stamps paid the international rate at the time. On July 10, the Probing the Vastness of Space sheet was issued. US #3409 recognizes the important role observatories and telescopes play in the American space program. The selvage pictures members of the Challenger crew during an October 1984 mission. One stamp features a computer-generated NASA image, while the other pictures an artist’s depiction of the station. ![]() On July 9, the USPS issued the Escaping the Gravity of the Earth hologram stamps paying the $3.20 Priority Mail rate. The sheet’s selvage pictures a 1972 photo of the Apollo 16 mission collecting lunar samples near Plum crater. It’s a relatively large stamp – measuring nearly two inches wide. ![]() The Moon is shown twice on the sheet – as the base for the lander and rising behind the horizon. The $11.75 Landing on the Moon stamp shows the US lunar lander above the Moon’s surface. ![]() US #3413 honors the Moon landing.Ī second hologram souvenir sheet was issued the following day. The hologram technique used allows the viewer to see the planet rotate 25 degrees east and west. This issue was America’s first hologram stamp, first round stamp, and first round souvenir sheet. ![]() The first stamp, issued on opening day, was an $11.75 Express Mail stamp picturing the Earth as a hologram. The theme of the show was Space Exploration, and the USPS issued a series of stamps along this theme over the course of the show. US #3412 – Colorano Silk Cachet First Day Cover. A total of 26 postal administrations and 107 vendors participated in the show, which planners said promised “to be one of the most extensive and exciting events of the new millennium.” Held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, the show ran from July 7 to 16, 2000. Several US postal firsts were issued during the show, including the first round, pentagonal, and holographic stamps. World Stamp Expo 2000 opened on July 7, 2000. World Stamp Expo 2000 US #3412 was the first US stamp that was round and had a hologram. ![]()
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