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This beautiful series of 11 stamps from Romania covers the entire Apollo space program. 10 more under the cut!

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In the spring of 2000, I drove around Houston, TX taking pictures of space-named businesses, signs, street names, you name it — I think I was aiming to make a collage, but it never happened, and a lot of the pictures (taken on my 35mm) weren’t really large enough or sharp enough to do much with. (I’d love to go back and try again, digital!) In any case, I have to admit, I never found anything as spectacular as this sign, captured as a Lomo print!

A dramatic and fun 8″ x 8″ Matte Photo Print of my lomo lc-a photo “Apollo Liquors” featuring a space age vernacular sign on the streets of the Austin, Minnesota!

I shot this colorful photo using my Lomo LC-A Camera and Kodak Ektachrome e100g film, then cross-processed it for this dramatic color and light effect! This is not a product of Photoshop; the results come from the magic of darkroom cross-processing and the beautiful Lomo camera!

This is a great sign, a fantastic photo, and a fairly accurate rendition of an Apollo Command & Service Module combo. I don’t know what Apollo has to do with liquor, but there you go.

These 1971 stamps from Romania celebrate Apollo 15, and the first use of the Lunar Rover.

Two 1980 stamps from Djibouti, celebrating Apollo 11 and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. (Images from here.)

I first saw these strange little matchbooks on Retro Thing. Digging around Google resulted in more pictures, but little information, apart from what the article above states. The set of twelve matchbooks comes in a case, numbered as a limited edition item. The back of the case card lists all the technology RCA provided for the Apollo program, as seen below.

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