16-January... Docking of Manned Spacecrafts Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5...


In the year 1969, the Hungarian Postal Administration commemorated the docking of Manned Spacecrafts Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 launched as a part of Soviet Space Program... 

The Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 docked on this day (16-Jan) in the year 1969...  Both the spacecrafts carried out a primitive probe in the docking assembly...  This docking was precursor for NASA's Apollo-9 which was done in the month of March the same year...

Wordings featured in the stamp "összekapcsolása  a világűrben" means "Connection in Outer Space"... 

This stamp can be collected under the themes:

(a) Celestial bodies...
(b) Globe...
(c) Outer Space...
(d) Rockets / Spacecrafts...

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