25 years of manned spaceflight - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1986 - 40 Pfennig

25 years of manned space flight, issue 1986 On the occasion of the "International Aerospace Day", the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues four multicolored special postage stamps in unison No special first day envelope Special cancellation from 25th March to 24th May 1986 25 years of manned space flight On April 12, 1961, the first man on Earth, the citizen of the Soviet Union, the Communist Yuri Gagarin, flew into the cosmos, opening the era of manned space travel, and since then this day has been called the International Air Day. 40-pfennig value: Portrait of the Air Force Cosmonaut of the USSR Yuri Gagarin On April 12, 1961, at 9:07 Moscow time, launched the Soviet aircraft Yuri Gagarin aboard the spaceship Vostok from Baikonur Cosmodrome to its legendary orbit, the 108 minutes lasted The space flight system Wostok had a Gesamtmas se of 4.73 t, the spherical return cabin has a diameter of 2.3 m with a mass of 2.4 t. With his safe return to his home planet, the pioneer of space travel, the first cosmonaut of humanity, proved that man can live and work in space. From Yuri Gagarin, who was the first to see the earth in its true form from orbit and gave it the nickname "the blue planet", the words come from: "When I flew around the earth, I saw how splendid our planet is. Let us preserve this beauty, multiply and not destroy it. " Words that are of up-to-the-minute importance today.