A Danish astronaut's upcoming space mission has gotten the stamp of approval from the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
Posta Faroe Islands and Tusass Greenland, the two countries' postal services, have collaborated to produce a single postage stamp design commemorating European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen's "Huginn" mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The stamp was issued in both of the Kingdom of Denmark overseas territories on Friday (Aug. 11).
"What an honor!" wrote Mogensen, reacting to the stamp's release on X (formerly known as Twitter).
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The stamp features a black raven with its wings extended, set against Earth as a backdrop, with Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Denmark visible. "Huginn," Mogensen's chosen name for his ESA mission, is taken from one of the two ravens which served as helper spirits to the god Odin in Norse mythology. In Old Norse, "Huginn" means "thought."
"It was clear that the raven was going to be the focus of the stamp, with the Huginn name tying the mission to Nordic mythology," said Anker Eli Petersen, the stamp's artist, in a statement released by ESA.
