A recent acquisition. One of my all time favorite personalities of the 20th Century. A year before his death, he had been invited to come to Canada and address students at one of our universities (can't remember which one) but for some reason never made it.
The picture shown is not my SS (I wish !) Mine is next to worthless - it was folded a number of times and wetted. This image is from Scott.
One of the outstanding Russian marketing exercises. I don't remember a great deal, just that he was a very handsome man, always smiling, and the fact he went up in a rocket, was just unbelievable at the time, for the guys of my age. I think we all had a bent perspective of the Russians at the time, and he, very easily broke that mode, and engendered real affection.
You will notice that of the stamps illustrated, they are all Soviet bloc stamps. I always thought it was a shame that here in the west, we did not have a little more respect for the accomplishment. As I recall, there was the usual wringing of hands here in the US about how we were behind in the space race and had to catch up.
And yes, the US did catch up and surpass the Russians. How ironic now that we are going to be dependent on the Russians for trips up to the International Space Station, with our shuttles being phased out.
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