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space travel - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1991 - 9 Shilling

Designer: Wurnitsch, Valentin

space travel - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1991 - 9 Shilling


Theme: Traffic, Transportation & Mobility
CountryAustria / II. Republic of Austria
Issue Date1991
Face Value 9.00 
Colormulti-colored blue
Printing TypePhotogravure
Stamp TypeCommemorative
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number1383
Chronological ChapterOOS-OE2
SID569364
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On the occasion of a state visit in 1987, the then Soviet Foreign Minister Ryschkov offered the Austrian federal government to carry out a joint Soviet-Austrian space flight on the space station MIR. Despite the high investment costs, the Council of Ministers decided on April 5, 1988 to accept this offer and in October a relevant state treaty was signed. That was the birth of the project AUSTRO ME. The space station was launched with a Soyuz TM rocket, in which Dipl.-Ing. Franz Viehböck was the first Austrian to travel to space. A whole series of experiments in the service of technical and medical progress was carried out with the support of Soviet colleagues and also a thousand pieces of the special postage stamp with the motif of the space station accompanied the crew on their flight.

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On the occasion of a state visit in 1987, the then Soviet Foreign Minister Ryschkov offered the Austrian federal government to carry out a joint Soviet-Austrian space flight on the space station MIR. Despite the high investment costs, the Council of Ministers decided on April 5, 1988 to accept this offer and in October a relevant state treaty was signed. That was the birth of the project AUSTRO ME. The space station was launched with a Soyuz TM rocket, in which Dipl.-Ing. Franz Viehböck was the first Austrian to travel to space. A whole series of experiments in the service of technical and medical progress was carried out with the support of Soviet colleagues and also a thousand pieces of the special postage stamp with the motif of the space station accompanied the crew on their flight..