X-15 Goldcraft cachet cover, postmarked at Edwards Air Force Base on November 30, 1960. |
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.
1960-11-30 USA First X-15 Flight by Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong, who would later become the first person to walk on the moon, completed his first X-15 flight on November 30, 1960, in the #1 X-15. He followed this with a second flight in the same aircraft on December 9, 1960.