| Australia 1971 (02 Aug) Space Cover APOLLO 15 FALCON Lift Off Date FLEURS Sydney
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| Australia 1971 (02 Aug) Space Cover with purple/brown cachet "TO HONOUR/APOLLO MISSION/IMAGE OF SPACECRAFT ON MOON`s SURFACE" and purple circular handstamp "UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY/FLEURS RADIO/OBSERVATORY" and addressed to Goodwood South Australia and affixed with 6c Sturt`s Desert Rose stamp cancelled "SYDNEY/12 30 AM/2AUG/1971/NSW AUST" and wavy line cancel. "Falcon" lifted off the Moon at 17:11:22 GMT on August 2 1971 after 66 hours and 55 minutes on the lunar surface. Fleurs is situated about 40 km west-south-west of central Sydney near Badgery`s Creek, and occupies an expanse of flat land between South Creek and Kemps Creek adjacent to a disused WWII air strip. Between 1954 and 1963, Fleurs was the leading field station of the CSIRO`s Division of Radiophysics, and was home to three innovative cross-type radio telescopes, the Mills Cross, Shain Cross and the Chris Cross, all of which played important roles in furthering international radio astronomy (Robertson, 1992).
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Item #: INV-130913
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Pricing in AU$
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Within Australia
A$
5.00
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Outside Australia
A$ 4.55
(approx. US$3.05)
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