USPS 1969 First Moon Landing 50th Anniversary (Sheet of 24) First-Class Postage Forever Stamps 2019 Scott #5399-5400

Description

This sheet of 24 forever postage stamps released in July 2019 commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin achieved something that had long been confined to the realm of science fiction when they landed a spidery spacecraft named Eagle on the Moon. A worldwide audience watched and listened when Armstrong stepped onto the Moon’s surface and famously said, “That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.” The sheet contains two stamp designs - One stamp features Armstrong’s iconic photograph of Aldrin in his spacesuit on the surface of the Moon. The other stamp, a photograph of the moon taken in 2010 by Gregory H. Revera from his home in Madison, AL, shows the landing site of the lunar module, Eagle, in the Sea of Tranquility. The site is indicated on the stamp by a dot. Art director Antonio Alcalá designed the stamps. The 1969: First Moon Landing stamps are being issued as Forever postage stamps and will always be equal in value to the current 1-ounce domestic postage for letter mail.