Purgatory Post commemorates Dalai Lama, Apollo-Soyuz

New Hampshire-based Purgatory Post earlier this month issued three stamps commemorating two different subjects.

The first is a 6-sola stamp released July 5 to honor the 90th birthday of the current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. The Dalai Lama, the head of Tibetan Buddhism, has lived in exile in India since 1959.

Later, on July 15, Purgatory Post issued a pair of 5-sola stamps commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. The stamps picture the astronauts and cosmonauts who took part.

The Americans and Soviets on July 15, 1975, each launched spacecraft into orbit. Two days later, on July 17, the Apollo and Soyuz space capsules docked with each other, and over the next 44 hours, astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand, and Deke Slayton and cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov took part in the first crewed international space mission.

Published 2025-07-29