The Space Race was a technological competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in demonstrating superiority in aerospace capabilities, including artificial satellites launches, robotic space probes to the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and ultimately landing on the Moon. This blog features my collection of US and Soviet Union space events on covers and press photos.
1966-05-17 USA Gemini 9 Mission Scrubbed
GT-9 launch scrubbed. Cover with Gemini 9 official NASA cachet and Cape Canaveral hand cancel, May 17, 1966.
Photo: Eugene Cernan and Thomas Stafford having a conversation after their
mission was scrubbed on May 17, 1966.
