| Australia 1971 (01 Feb) Space Cover with green cachet "TO HONOUR/APOLLO MISSION/IMAGE OF SPACE MODULE ON MOON`S SURFACE" and black handstamp "JOINT DEFENCE SPACE/RESEARCH FACILITY" and addressed to Plympton SA and affixed with 6c orange QEII stamp cancelled "ALICE SPRINGS/10 A - 1FE71/NT 5750" (Launch date of APOLLO 14 was 21:03:02 UTC 31st January (07:03:02 AEST 1st February 1971) Pine Gap is the commonly used name for a U.S. satellite surveillance base or Australian Earth station approximately 18 kilometres (11 mi) south-west of the town of Alice Springs, Northern Territory in the centre of Australia which is operated by both Australia and the United States. Since 1988, it has been officially called the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG); previously, it was misleadingly known as Joint Defence Space Research Facility
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