The advent of robotic and human spaceflight presented a new era of American history. Keeping with the tradition of honoring the country's history on U.S. postage stamps, the U.S. Post Office began com
Accomplishments in SpaceCommemorative Issue of 1967
Fort Bliss Issue of 1948
ECHO I, Issue of 1960
Echo 1 sits fully inflated at a Navy hangar in Weeksville, North Carolina
Project Gemini
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Project Gemini was the second United States human spaceflight program to fly. It was conducted after the first American crewed space program, Project Mercury, while the Apollo program was still in ear
U.S. space exploration history on U.S. stamps
…and printed on the Giori press, the quantities for this issue totaled more than 62 million. Gemini IV was a June 1965 crewed space flight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the second crewed Gemini flight, the tenth crewed American flight and the 18th spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 kilometres…
A cutaway illustration of the Gemini spacecraft. The Adapter module in white, the Reentry module in grey
Gemini 7 capsule
Unablated Gemini heat shield
Ablated Gemini heat shield