Stamp breaks Guinness World Record for travelling the longest distance in space

Q.  Which postal agency created a stamp that travelled 5,250,843,896 km into space?
- Published on 01 Aug 16

a. US Postal Service
b. India Post
c. Bangladesh Postal Service
d. None of the above

ANSWER: US Postal Service
 
  • A stamp was also sent to Pluto on the New Horizon’s spacecraft; it travelled 5,250,843,896 km becoming the stamp to travel longest distance ever in history.
  • Stamp earned the Guinness World Records title for the farthest distance travelled by the postage stamp.
  • The spacecraft was launched from the US on 19th January 2006 and arrived at Pluto on 14th July 2015.
  • Stamp was from a special series which showed the planets of the solar system and vessels that had explored them.
  • The Pluto: Not Yet Explored stamp on board the New Horizons Spacecraft will journey beyond Pluto visiting a Kuiper Belt Object called 2014MU69 considered a building block of the solar system.

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