1998 $11.75 Piggyback Space Shuttle, Express Mail

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U.S. #3262
1998 $11.75 Piggyback Space Shuttle
Express Mail

Issue Date: November 19, 1998
City: New York, NY
Quantity: 21,225,000

Printed By: Banknote Corporation of America

Printing Method: Lithographed

Perforations: 11.5

Color: Multicolored

The $11.75 shuttle piggyback stamp was issued to pay the new half-pound rate for express mail delivery.

Birth Of The Space Shuttle Program

NASA began studying the possibility of space shuttles in the late 1960s. Then in 1969, President Nixon created the Space Task Group, led by Vice President Spiro Agnew. The group established a list of missions that included the creation of space vehicles, a space station, and eventually a manned mission to Mars.