Chad stamps year 1976 – Space Viking Landing on Mars

Chad stamps year 1976 – Space Viking Landing on Mars MNH imperforated

Chad issued a set of space-themed postage stamps in 1976 celebrating the Viking Mars exploration “Operation Viking on Mars” (i.e., the Viking missions that landed on Mars in 1976). These are topical spaceflight stamps tied to the Viking Mars Project rather than a generic Mars landing label.

🇹🇩 Chad 1976 — Operation Viking on Mars Stamp Set

📅 Year of Issue: 1976
📌 Theme: Operation Viking on Mars — dedicated to the Viking missions to Mars, including the successful landing of probes in 1976.
📍 Country: Republic of Chad
📦 Stamp Type: Space / spaceflight topical issue (airmail stamps and souvenir sheets)

📬 Set Composition

Chad’s 1976 issue includes a series of stamps and associated souvenir sheet(s) depicting the Viking Mars probes:

• Series of 3 individual stamps commonly catalogued as Scott C191–C193 — these depict various aspects of the Viking Mars Project (orbiters, landers, etc.).
• Souvenir sheet(s) — e.g., larger format items sometimes listed separately (Michel references such as Bl.66).
• The stamps typically have multicolored art showing the Viking spacecraft associated with the Mars landing mission.

📊 Catalog Listings (typical):

• Scott: C191–C193 (individual stamps) and related block/souvenir sheet C194 (in some catalogs).
• Michel / Yvert / Stanley Gibbons: Corresponding numbers also exist in major catalogues tied to the Viking theme.

💡 These stamps were issued shortly after the real Viking 1 mission landed on Mars on July 20, 1976 — the first successful Mars landing by the United States and one of the earliest successful Mars landings ever.