Irish moon landing stamp spells ‘moon’ wrong – BBC News

The Republic of Eire’s postal provider has apologised for spelling “the moon” inferior in Irish on its unusual commemorative stamps celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo landing.

The postal provider, recognized as An Post, launched the stamps final week.

Four astronauts are featured on the stamps with Irish ancestry.

The Irish observe for moon is “gealach”. However the trace accidently spelled it “gaelach”, that manner being Gaelic, Irish or touching on to the Scottish Highlands.

As a change of studying “The 50th Anniversary of the First Moon Touchdown”, it now reads “50th Anniversary of the First Touchdown on the Irish”.

The mistake turned into as soon as noticed on social media in fresh days.

“Whereas the customary Irish textual convey material turned into as soon as beautiful, the transposition of letters in a later draft turned into as soon as no longer picked up at some stage in excellent proofing, sooner than the printing and release of the stamps on July 4th final,” An Post stated.

“Through the originate course of for the fresh Establish Exploration stamps, the letters ‘a’ and ‘e’ delight in been transposed within the Irish language title on two of the four stamps.”

An Post has stated that it has made preparations to be sure that such errors is no longer going to occur all as soon as more.

Retired Colonel, US Air Force and NASA astronaut Cady Coleman launched the stamps.

She is one of four astronauts featured on the stamps, on the side of Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Eileen Collins.