Astrophilately, the most scientific discipline in philately
Anything that happens in space . . . can be incorporated into astrophilately
The small artwork "The Fallen Astronaut" from Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck was left on the Moon by the Apollo 15 astronauts, together with a memory plate for the 14 astronauts who died during training or flight.
Apollo 15 Moon cover, landed on the Moon in 1971.
Docking of the European cargo ship ATV-1 to ISS on April 3rd 2008. Postmark on board Russian segment of the ISS.
One of the most important things in astrophilately is to get the exact information about spaceflight and astrophilatelic covers.
There is a lot of astrophilatelic material available, on the internet and written, but a lot of knowledge is in the hand of great astrophilatelist who really want to share their data.
The Mundaneum by Paul Otlet, the first attempt to bring all the world's data together in one building, internet and Wikipedia® "avant la lettre".
