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AD*ASTRA is the quarterly Newsletter of AS.IT.AF (A link to the full-text version of each issue is available in the Member Area) N°0 Aug 2008 - AS.IT.AF. has born - Founding Members: Who is who? - Astronews - AS.IT.AF. in the Web - The AS.IT.AF. library N°1 Nov 2008 - Apollo 40th Anniversary: Celebration started - Astrophilately over a coffee - AS.IT.AF.welcomes Paul and Chris Calle - What is an Astrophilatelic Collection. - Luciano Fraschetti, Founder of FDC Roma. N°2 Mar 2009 - AS.IT.AF. goes public - ISS marks 10 years in space - Thales Alenia Space: a major contribution to ISS (part one) - What is an Astrophilatelic Collection. 2 – Scope and contents - Latina stamps from Slovenjia for Apollo 40th, with special postmark N°3 Jul 2009 - Apollo: 40 years - Alec Bartos: AS.IT.AF. Member designs Apollo stamps in Romania for 40th Anniversary - Thales Alenia Space: a major contribution to ISS (part two) - LRO returns pictures of Apollo relics on the Moon - Astrophilately over a coffee - Criteria for evaluating Astrophilately Exhibits – 1 - Astronews - In Memoriam: Ottavio Irio Fantini N°4 Oct 2009 - 2009: a year full of initiatives - Homage to the “astrophilatelist” Giovanni Riggi Di Numana - The Chiavari and Pecetto exhibits: a new “educational” approach - Astrophilately over a coffee - The future of human space flights - It’s time for NASA to get back on track! – Interview with Walter Cunningham (Apollo 7) - “I Ragazzi della Luna” by Walt. Cunningham – book review of the Italian version N°5 Jan 2010 - Nodo-3 and Cupola: a “room with a view” added to ISS - Little known ASTP flown covers - Astrophilately over a coffee - Space artist Bob McCall died at 90 - Criteria for evaluating Astrophilately Exhibits – 2 - Astro News N°6 Apr 2010 - Presidential note - Apollo 15: “The problem we brought back from the Moon” - Cygnus ISS Commercial resupply services by Thales Alenia Space - Giovanni Schiaparelli celebrated in the 100th Anniversary of his death - A special postmark accompanies the participation of AS.IT.AF. to ESOF2010 - Astronews N°7 Jul 2010 - 25th birthday of Astrophilately - ESOF 2010 and Celebration for Schiaparelli - AD*ASTRA splits into two editions - From Galileo to Schiaparelli: Italian Astronomers on stamps - Russians on the Moon - Apollo 7 patch reissued in limited edition with COA N°8 Oct 2010 - 25 Years of Astrophilately - Beatrice Bachmann: The Doyenne of Astrophilately - The Prague Astronomical Orloj is 600 years old - AstroNews - The Italian contribution to space discovery and exploration N°9-10 Jul 2011 - Italian stamp to commemorate 50 Years of Manned Space Flight - AS.IT.AF. welcomes Walter Cunningham as Honorary Member - "Fifty Years of Manned Space Flight” celebrated in Torino - Gagarin stamps and postmarks in Italy - Astrophilatelic Exhibition held in Turin - AS.IT.AF. pays hommage to Paul Calle - Astrophilately exhibition at Borgo Faiti (Latina) - Venezia 2011: four golden medals for astrophilately - Gagarin Rumanian stamps designed by Alec Bartos - Yuri A. Gagarin, the first space traveller - Alan Shepard - the second astronaut in history - STS-135: Final Launch of the Space Shuttle Program - Lunar landing: the philatelic side of Apollo 11 mission - Paolo Nespoli back to Milano
N° 11 Dec 2011 - Nespoli celebrates the first anniversary of MagISStra - Italy and Shuttle – Spacelab (part 1) - Luigi Broglio, the pioneer of the Italian Astronautics - Paul Calle’s Space Art - Gagarin commemorated by the Italian Philately - «I’ve been in the Heaven, but I didn’t see God!» - John Glenn: the first American in Earth orbit - How the “Space hackers” remind Yuri Gagarin - History of Astronomy through the Stamps, by R. Dicati awarded at Philanippon 2011 - AS.IT.AF. sponsors Crescentino exhibition - VeronaFil 2011: missing the spark of recent years - AS.IT.AF. booklet: Schiaparelli and exploration of Mars - AS.IT.AF. booklet: Astronumismatics
- Mars, the Red Challenge N12 Mar 2012 - ATV-2/MagISStra flown cover - ATV, a new challenging topic for Collectors - VEGA: the Italian Proud - Vega at first launch - Italy and Shuttle - Spacelab (part 2) - The Secret Mercury Stamp is fifty years N°13 June 2012 - Twenty years of Italian Astronauts in Space - Spacehab: the Italian bridge towards ISS - Sirio: the 1st Italian telecommunication satellite - 100 years of Wernher Von Braun - The first official Baikonur Postmark - The Baikonur-Karaganda fakes N°14 September 2012 - Neil Armstrong: reluctant, modest Hero - Luca Parmitano flying to ISS with Mission “Volare” - Twenty years of Italian Astronauts in space - The Tethered satellite - EURECA, the EUropean REtrievable CArrier - Again on Sirio - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - The postmark of the Sovchoz Baikonur
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