“NASA placed a 29-cent Pluto: Not Yet Explored stamp on board the New Horizons spacecraft, which is safe to say, makes it the most widely-traveled stamp in the universe.” The Postal Service is issuing the Pluto-Explored! Souvenir sheet as a companion to the Views of Our Planets stamp pane. Pluto is now officially designated as a dwarf planet. “At the time, Pluto was still considered a planet, and it was the only one in our solar system that hadn’t been visited by a spacecraft.” Postal Service Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President David Williams in dedicating the stamps. “In 1991, the Postal Service issued a Pluto: Not Yet Explored stamp that served as a rallying cry for those who very much wanted to explore it,” said U.S. Visit Our Planets Forever Stamps to view images of the stamps and background on the planets. The public is asked to share the news on social media using the hashtags #PlutoExplored and #PlanetStamps. The first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony for the Pluto-Explored! and Views of Our Planets Forever stamps took place before a crowd of 500 at the world’s largest stamp show that only occurs in the United States once a decade, World Stamp Show-NY 2016.
Postal Service dedicated Forever stamps to commemorate the historic event, while dedicating a second set of stamps depicting NASA’s stunning images of our planets.
US SOLAR SYSTEM STAMP SHEET PLUS
NEW YORK CITY - Less than a year following NASA’s nine-year, three-billion plus mile New Horizons mission to explore Pluto, the U.S.
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