Item no. S143 (stamp)
Type: stamp
Country: Afghanistan
Date of issue: 28 December 1969
Catalog number: Scott 816 (of 813 – 816)
Stamp of 4-stamp set issued to commemorate the first manned Moon landing (Apollo 11 mission). All stamps of the set have the same design but different colors and values, and show a reproduction of a photograph taken by the mission commander NEIL ARMSTRONG of a bootprint impressed in the Moon’s dust by EDWIN “BUZZ” ALDRIN, pilot of Lunar Module (LM) “EAGLE”.