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.
1967-07-14 USA Surveyor 4
"SpaceCraft" Surveyor 4 launch cover cancelled at Cape Canaveral, July 14, 1967. Signed by Deputy Project Manager for Hughes Aircraft Co. Operation, Howard B. Haglund.
Surveyor 4 was launched on 14 July 1967. A few minutes before Surveyor 4 was to touch down on the moon in Sinus Medii, all communications were lost.