Central African Rep. stamps year 1976 Viking Landing on Mars

Central African Rep stamps year 1976 – Space Viking Landing on Mars MNH imperforated

🚀 Central African Republic – 1976 Viking Landing on Mars Stamp Set

📅 Date of Issue: December 16, 1976
📍 Country: Central African Republic (was also transitioning to Central African Empire around this time)
🌌 Theme: Space exploration — Viking Mars Project (landing and mission imagery)
📜 Topic: Robots, Mars landing, NASA program commemoration
📮 Usage: Postage stamps issued for collectors and postal use

🧾 Catalog Listings

Here’s how the set is cataloged in major stamp reference systems:

This reflects five individual stamps forming the main set.

🎨 About the Design & Theme

These stamps illustrate robots and probes associated with the NASA Viking program — specifically Viking 1 and Viking 2 missions that reached Mars in 1976:

• Viking missions were NASA’s first successful landers on Mars and dramatically expanded knowledge of the planet.
• The imagery on the stamps typically includes spacecraft, orbiters, landers, and Mars itself, stylized as part of a space exploration motif.

Collectors often group them under space thematic (Mars probes/robotic exploration), and they’re popular for topical collections on space exploration or Mars missions.