| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| Date of Issue | June 27, 2019 |
| Year | 2019 |
| Quantity | 1,320,000 |
| Denomination |
 PERMANENT™ (P).Current monetary value: $0.92. |
| Series | Apollo 11, 1969-2019 |
| Series Time Span | 2019 |
| Postal Administration | Canada |
| Condition | Name | Avg Value |
|---|
Product # 414116111
$9.00
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, and Canada’s contribution to the historic mission to the moon, with this booklet of 10 PermanentTM domestic stamps.
The five pairs of joined-and-inverted (tête-bêche) stamps in this booklet feature realistic illustrations of the spacecraft from the Apollo 11 mission. The upper stamp of each pair, with Earth at the top, depicts the command and service module. The lower stamp shows the lunar module descending toward the moon, where it landed successfully on July 20, 1969. More than 500 million people around the world were transfixed by blurry black and white television footage of astronaut Neil Armstrong taking humankind’s first steps on the moon.
Helping make the historic moment possible were many Canadians who worked on the Apollo program. NASA engineers James Chamberlin and Owen Maynard, who are featured on the booklet, played key planning and design roles for Apollo 11. Employees at Héroux Machine Parts Limited (now Héroux-Devtek) in Longueuil, Quebec, manufactured the landing gear legs for the lunar module. The legs remain on the moon at Apollo 11’s landing site in the Sea of Tranquility.
Product # 414116111
$9.00
Product # 404116107
$5.40
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the “giant leap” for humankind, and pay tribute to the Canadians who contributed to this historic mission to the moon, with this pane of six PermanentTM domestic stamps.
The pane includes three joined-and-inverted (tête-bêche) pairs of PermanentTM domestic stamps, each featuring a realistic illustration of part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft. The upper stamp of each pair, with Earth at the top, depicts the command and service module. The lower stamp shows the lunar module descending toward the moon. On the pane’s uppermost and lowermost stamps, the Earth and moon intersect with the background image.
Apollo 11’s lunar module, the Eagle, touched down successfully on July 20, 1969. More than 500 million people around the world were transfixed by blurry black and white television footage of astronaut Neil Armstrong taking humankind’s first steps on the moon.
Helping make the historic moment possible were many Canadians who worked on the Apollo program. NASA engineers James Chamberlin and Owen Maynard played key planning and design roles for Apollo 11. Employees at Héroux Machine Parts Limited (now Héroux-Devtek) in Longueuil, Quebec, manufactured the landing gear legs for the lunar module.
Product # 404116107
$5.40
Product # 414116131
$2.80
Celebrate Canada’s contributions to Apollo 11, the “giant leap” for humankind, and mark the 50th anniversary of this historic mission to the moon, with this Official First Day Cover.
This stylish collectible bears two joined-and-inverted (tête-bêche) PermanentTM domestic stamps, each featuring a realistic illustration of part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft. The upper stamp, with Earth at the top, depicts the command and service module. The lower stamp shows the lunar module descending toward the moon, where it landed successfully on July 20, 1969. More than 500 million people around the world were transfixed by blurry black and white television footage of astronaut Neil Armstrong taking humankind’s first steps on the moon.
Opposite the stamps are Canadian-born NASA engineers James Chamberlin (left) and Owen Maynard, who played key planning and design roles for Apollo 11. Chamberlin and Maynard also appear in black and white photographs on the reverse, where text explains their contributions in greater detail.
The stamps are cancelled in Longueuil, Quebec, a tribute to the employees of Héroux Machine Parts Limited (now Héroux-Devtek) who manufactured the landing gear legs for the lunar module. The legs remain on the moon at Apollo 11’s landing site in the Sea of Tranquility.
Product # 414116131
$2.80
On July 20, 1969, the world held its breath as astronaut Neil Armstrong descended from the lunar module to take “one small step” that signified a giant leap for humankind. The seemingly impossible had been achieved: a human had walked on the moon.
While many people remember what they were doing on that historic day, few realize the critical role Canadian ingenuity, expertise and determination played in this momentous event.
Engineers James Chamberlin (1915-81) and Owen Maynard (1924-2000) – born in Kamloops, British Columbia, and Sarnia, Ontario, respectively – were key players working for NASA in the years leading up to the mission. Chamberlin advised NASA on the type of spacecraft best suited for transporting the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon and back, assisted in resolving problems with the lunar module, and helped verify the readiness of astronauts’ spacesuits and life-support systems. Maynard created the initial sketches that led to the design of the lunar module, and he ensured that the numerous mission-critical systems of the lunar module and the command and service module interacted properly. Many other Canadian scientists, engineers, computer experts and physicians contributed to the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs that paved the way for this remarkable achievement.
Employees at Quebec-based Héroux Machine Parts Ltd (now Héroux-Devtek) manufactured the lunar module’s landing-gear legs – work that involved precision milling within tolerances of thousands of an inch and complicated shapes. The Canadian-made landing gear remains on the moon to this day.
Designed by Matthew Clark of Vancouver’s Subplot Design Inc., these stamps feature realistic illustrations by Mack Sztaba to celebrate the out-of-this-world engineering required to design and build the Apollo 11 modules. “We’re used to seeing the Apollo 11 mission through 50-year-old lenses – grainy photos and blurry images,” explains Clark. “We wanted to show what it would look like if those photos were retaken with the clarity of today’s cameras.”
Sztaba’s primary challenge was achieving total accuracy. “I mostly illustrate in the realms of science fiction and fantasy,” he says. “I’ve never done an illustration that had to be so precise.” The design team was fortunate to have access to experts Randy Attwood and Chris Gainor, who checked every antenna, seam and hatch of the modules for authenticity.
Although countless technological advances have been made since, Apollo 11 still stands out as one of the most awe-inspiring achievements in human history.