2008Space Exploration - First Day Cover

Bearing a high importance among the themes that philatelists show a high interest for, Astrophilately is to be found again this year in the philatelic issues programe through the philatelic issue Space Exploration, that Romfilatelia introduces into circulation. The three stamps mark half a century since the first attempts to begin an elaborated space exploration and research program and to verify survival conditions for human crew on board of space ships.

In 1958, the United States of America launched the first space mission, Explorer I that was to reveal a fundamental discovery for space explorations: due to its magnetic poles, the Earth is surrounded by a radiation belt, thereafter called "Van Allen".