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
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An astronaut is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member of a spacecraft. Although generally reserved for professional space trave
NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a Manned Maneuvering Unit outside Space Shuttle Challenger on shuttle mission STS-41-B in 1984.
Alan Shepard aboard Freedom 7 (1961)
The first sixteen NASA astronauts to be selected, February 1963. Back row: White, McDivitt, Young, See, Conrad, Borman, Armstrong, Stafford, Lovell. Front row: Cooper, Grissom, Carpenter, Schirra, Glenn, Shepard, Slayton.
The first eleven Soviet cosmonauts to fly, July 1965. Back row, left to right: Leonov, Titov, Bykovsky, Yegorov, Popovich; front row: Komarov, Gagarin, Tereshkova, Nikolayev, Feoktistov, Belyayev.