Honoring the Space Shuttle era
In April 1981, NASA initiated its famous Space Shuttle era, which would go on to carry a 30-year legacy. USPS issued a series of stamps to commemorate NASA’s famous fleet, including this one issued in 1999.
NASA’s space shuttle fleet, consisting of Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, flew a total of 135 missions. “The spacecraft has carried people into orbit repeatedly, launched, recovered and repaired satellites, conducted cutting-edge research and built the largest structure in space, the International Space Station,” NASA wrote.
