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
A GT-9 launch cover featuing a Kennedy Space Center NASA official cachet created for the mission, postmarked with a Cape Canaveral hand cancellation dated May 17, 1966; however, the mission was scrubbed.
Photo: Eugene Cernan and Thomas Stafford engaged in a conversation after their mission was scrubbed on May 17, 1966.