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Item no. S149 (stamp)

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Item no. S149 (stamp)

Type: stamp

Country: The Netherlands

Date of issue: 5 May 1994

Catalog number: Michel 1515 (of 1514 – 1515); Scott 861 (of 860 – 861)

Stamp issued to commemorate 25th anniversary of the first manned Moon landing (1969, Apollo 11 mission). It shows 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”; and a screenshot of a TV image taken during transmission form the Moon.