Apollo / Wernher von Braun - block of stamps mint never hinged, catalog no. 4217 p. 451, Paraguay

This rare block edition was published on April 12, 1988 in Paraguay for the 75th birthday of Wernher von Braun.

It contains an airmail stamp showing the giant moon rocket of the type & ldquo; Saturn V & ldquo; shows at their launch for the flight of Apollo 15 on July 26, 1971.
On the edge of the block Wernher von Braun at his work table in Huntsville / Alabama with the famous collection of rocket models.

The block had a circulation of only 5,000 consecutively numbered copies (plus 1,000 separately numbered blocks with the imprint & ldquo; MUESTRA & ldquo;) and can hardly be found today, catalog value 25, & ndash; Euros.
The collection of rocket models begins with the test rocket A5, a small forerunner, the “A4”, with its first successful flight into space on October 3, 1942, as well as the American rocket “Redstone”, the “Jupiter “Launch vehicle, the“ Explorer I ”, the“ Redstone-Mercury ”, the launch vehicle for the first manned space flights in the USA, the“ Atlas Centaur ”launch vehicle for the lunar probe“ Surveyer ”, the“ Satur IB ”, the Apollo launch vehicle 7 and the legendary "Saturn V", the famous moon rocket, for the orbit around the moon of Apollo 8, 9 and 10 and the successful moon flights of Apollo 11, 12, 13 (without landing), 14, 15, 16 and 17, their model like this it was big that a hole had to be drilled in the ceiling of the room to accommodate it.