Price List - Viking Spacecraft to Mars /Joe Frasketi's Philatelic Space Covers

Viking spacecraft to Mars
with various cacheted covers

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There are various cachets in this listing, including printed cachets, rubber stamp cachets, official NASA cachets, etc.
All covers are unaddressed unless otherwise noted.
All commemorative covers are for launches unless otherwise noted.
Where stamp(s) used on the cover are significant to the event or location, they will be described. Otherwise the stamp(s) used on the cover may be a definitive or an unrelated issue.
Some of the covers described below are listed as Viking "A" or Viking "One" etc. These are the same spacecraft! Nasa, in all its wisdom, sometimes designates a spaceflight with a "letter" such as "A" or "B" etc. during the launch phase and after the launch is successful it changes the spaceflight from a "letter" to a "number". Hence the official NASA cachets on these covers for the Viking launches are marked Viking A. Other cachet makers have also followed NASA's lead in some cases. When describing a cachet, I describe it as shown on the cachet. If the cachet does not specifically say Viking A or Viking One, I may describe it as either, since it's all the same flight!

The above also holds true for the Viking "B" and Viking "Two" spacecraft, they are the same. AND NOW YOU KNOW!

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Price List

LIST ID

ITEM ID

PRICE

CANCEL DATE

CANCEL LOC

VIKING0A	0015	$5.00	08/20/1975	K
VIKING A SPACECRAFT TO MARS LAUNCH, with Official NASA Viking A purple rubber stamp cachet, Kennedy Space Center FL pictorial space slogan machine cancel on space stamp.

VIKING0A	0035	$3.00	08/20/1975	C
VIKING A SPACECRAFT TO MARS LAUNCH, with Cape Canaveral FL machine cancel on space stamp. Two-color raised printed cachet for launch by Centennial Cachets (unidentified).

VIKING0A	0220	$2.00	07/20/1976	HN
VIKING A SPACECRAFT LANDS ON MARS, with special Hampton-Newport News VA space word slogan machine cancel (clearly readable) reads: Langley Viking/NASA's First/Lander on Mars. With All-purpose blue Viking spacecraft printed cachet by Centennial (unidentified). Note: Langley referred to in the slogan cancel is the NASA Langley Research Center which manages the Viking Project and is located at Hampton-Newport News VA.

VIKING0A	0230A	$2.00	07/20/1976	HN
VIKING A SPACECRAFT LANDS ON MARS, with special Hampton-Newport News VA space word slogan machine cancel (all clearly readable) reads: Langley Viking/NASA's First/Lander on Mars. With black "Shue" printed cachet showing artist's conception of the Viking spacecraft landing on Mars. With headline text reading Landing on Mars to Mark Unprecedented July 4 Event. Note: Spacecraft was to land on July 4th but was delayed, Langley referred to in the slogan cancel is the NASA Langley Research Center which manages the Viking Project and is located at Hampton-Newport News VA. (Note: There is a small defect on this cover: a tan speck the size of a pinhead on the envelope near the cachet).

VIKING0A	0230B	$1.50	07/20/1976	HN
VIKING A SPACECRAFT LANDS ON MARS, with special Hampton-Newport News VA space word slogan machine cancel reads: Langley Viking/NASA's First/Lander on Mars. (Note: the postmark part where the city name and date is, falls on the dark part of the cachet and is hardly readable). With black "Shue" printed cachet showing artist's conception of the Viking spacecraft landing on Mars. With headline text reading Landing on Mars to Mark Unprecedented July 4 Event. Note: Spacecraft was to land on July 4th but was delayed, Langley referred to in the slogan cancel is the NASA Langley Research Center which manages the Viking Project and is located at Hampton- Newport News VA.

VIKING0A	DM0710AQ	$4.00	09/20/1976	F
DOMINICA: VIKING 1 & 2 MISSIONS TO MARS FIRST DAY COVER (#494, 496-498) , with a hand cancel of G.P.O. Roseau, Dominica, Sept. 20, 1976, on 4 stamps shows and identifies various events in the Viking mission: 1/2c stamp of the Viking spacecraft atop the launch rocket; 2c stamp shows Viking spacecraft atop the rocket about to be launched; 3c stamp shows the Viking orbiter spacecraft and the landing capsule over Mars; and the 45c stamp shows the Viking capsule with open parachute about to land on Mars. With black and brown first day of issue printed cachet of Viking lander about to land on Mars and text that reads in part: "Dominica, Commemorating Viking I and II Missions to Mars, July 20, 1976, September 3, 1976. First Day of Issue". Cover size 7-1/4"x3-3/4'. IMAGE

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