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Topical Times, Airmail Journal, and American Philatelist American Astrophilately: The First 50 Years, by David S. Ball / A&A Publishers, 1312 Winchester Drive Charleston, SC 29407 8" x 10" Softbound, 344 Pages with DVD of 700+ pages of supplemental material. $39.95 plus $4.00 for USA shipping and handling. To order, write to address or visit www. AmericanAstrophilately. com This prodigious work on Space Euent couers has has been reuiewed in Orbit, Topical Times, Airmail Journal, and American Philatelist. The American Philatelic Socieg awarded the book the Gold Medal for Literature at the Richmond APS Stampshow inAugust 2010, the largest euent of the year. Since then it has been bought by collec- Americon Astrophilately hos been nom- tors in sixteen nations. It is sold by dealers in inoted for the prestigious 2010 Eugene Berlin, Rome and Sydney and well as seueral M. Emme Astronautical Literature by the here in the States. American Astrophilately American Astronautical Socieg that recog- is sold at the National Postal and Air & Space nizes "the truly outstanding book... about Museum (the most popular on the planet). the positiue impact of astronautics upon so- It is stocked at Barnes ond Noble and the cieg." The oward is in honor of Eugene M. Kansas Cosmosphere. It is now auailable Emme, NASA's first historian. Preuious re- at Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space cipients haue included; Frederick I. Ordway Center, and Marsholl NASA facilities. III, Jomes R. Hansen and Arthur C. Clarke. Review by Jim Reichman, Space Unit I have to admit, up front, that I har- David Ball's book on American astro- bor misgivings about some of the tenets philately is one that few aspiring astro- that form the foundation of the philatel- philatelists should be without. Although ic study field being labeled "astrophilat- narrowly focused on the space programs ely". In particular, these concerns relate of the United States, it does provide to the exclusionist guidelines these col- guidelines and useful examples of how lectors have adopted which disqualify astrophilatelists around the world should otherwise world-class, philatelic exhib- address and model their own philatelic its relating to the history of spaceflight. research and documentation energies. I On the other hand you have to admire would even go so far as to recommend the tenacity these astrophilatelists the book to the rest of the space collec- employ to seek out and document the tors/philatelists, i.e., those of us whose details of philatelic, commemorative, cosmic collecting and exhibiting inter- space covers and their backgrounds. ests tend to violate one or more bound- Such attention to detail is the "right aries of the astrophilatelists' precepts. stuff" that turns any regular space col- One of the main reasons for these lector into a true cosmic-philatelist. recommendations is that a major por- JANUARY/APRIL 20I O ASTROPHILE Book Cover: Dovid S. Boll 57 ]I ilt ilt lll tion of David's book is filled with an in- Interspersed in and around these ar- lll teresting collection of philatelic mono- ticles are others written personally by grams, vignettes, and even some short David that introduce and supplement "ffi theses written by the experts and first- those astrophilately subjects. Included hand participants in the field of astro- in his writings are discussions support- philately. These articles address a wide ing the foundations for and justification variety of philatelic subjects related to of the astrophilatelic tenets that deal the American space program. Although with issues like acceptable postoffices, ,., I -.-{ not a new approach to adding authentic- time zones, postmark classifications, 1', ity and scope to a space book's content, and backdating. id*;ka it certainly enlivened the discussions of Interestingly, some of these discus- I,* r-wq! HI I t what could have quickly devolved into a sions address the problems associated "r d! matter-of-fact documentation of accept- with blindly applying some of these te- able and unacceptable astrophilatelic nets. One case in point, brought up by exhibition materials. the author, is the astrophilatelic tenet One of these articles was of particular requiring covers be postmarked on the interest to my own Russian spaceflight event date at/near the ground station *ffi: philatelic interests. This was a fascinating controlling the spacecraft. Strict ad- .,.iilffi story about how one enterprising stamp herence to this requirement makes no dealer was able to get two, same-day sense when, e.g., postmarking philatelic postmarks (one from Moscow and one covers commemorating a deep-space Tvoicol soreod from Section ll. feoturino covers for historicol missions. The outhor hos chosen six covers from lounch to re- .bu"ry, with impoitont mileitone dotes of eqch mission. This loyout is for the Apollo 1 I Lunor londing mission. from Cape Canaveral) on the same covers probe event when telemetric news of ilxtoposed commemorating both launches (Soyuz that event (i.e., whether it actually hap- lectors identify envelopes which meet ated comments found in Parts II and III and Apollo) of the Apollo-Soyuz Test pened and/or was successful) would not the International Philatelic Federation of the book and the files on the accom- Project. Given the number and variety of reach the ground station until the day guidelines for exhibiting, I went on eBay panying computer disk (CD). Without these types of discussions in the book, after these covers were required to be and randomly selected US space cov- such information, the average reader it would be fair to say that almost every postmarked because of how far out in ers being offered there that fit within will easily get lost amidst all the phila- space collector will find at least one and deep-space the probe was at. the timeline and space-mission bound- telic details. Second is the lack of an ad- probably many of these articles that will Since this book is being billed as a aries addressed in David's book. Each equate editorial review which should pique their own personal interests. resource that would help novice col- such cover selected was then com- have caught and resolved those defi- pared against the reference materials ciencies as well as several other mis- and guidelines of the book. Many were Ylh e, r*rhkn rni{o,*'|. *.( .i tr bip neri rnJ *x{d.ril{ r*rrs takes that were found in the book. 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Were it not for My recommendation is for purchasers an open email dialog with the author to to first read the Part I astrophilatelic help resolve these issues, I would have articles and similar materials located 'b!4 &,@d a" !!k !i*r! 5$: *h{i lE{: i{en*'i:i& been left wondering. 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