Astrophilately

Astrophilately is a branch of philately motive for space post. This post may come from both manned and unmanned space flights.

Subject of the territory is, post stamps and philatelic documents. Example of this is rocket mail from the 1930s and other space post such as the Apollo program. Real flown pieces there are, for example, Apollo 15 and the Space Shuttle mission STS -8. Connoisseurs distinguish between the subject collections with space reference; real astrophilatelic Collectibles obtained directly from space missions, with or without visual reference.

The Fédération Internationale de Philately has a Commission for Astrophilately.