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.
1976-08-18 USSR Luna 24
Luna-24 was the last spacecraft to land on the Moon in the space race. Boring 2.25 meters into the Moon, it obtained a 170.1 gram core sample that was returned to Earth.