United States Space Park New York World’s Fair DOD/NASA Honorary Astronauts Card

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United States Space Park, New York World’s Fair, DOD/NASA Honorary Astronauts Card
From the COLD WAR Day's (1965) of the American Space Race
Un-issued DOD / NASA  Honorary Astronauts Card
3 9/16th X 2 1/4th inches
Excellent condition with no folds, staining / yellowing / foxing, dog ears, tears, or writing
A plastic Protector Sleeve in also included
Please see attach pictures
Shipping includes a Tracking Number
United States Space Park at the 1965 New York World’s Fair
A 2-acre (0.81 ha) United States Space Park was sponsored by
NASA
, the
Department of Defense
and the fair. Exhibits included a full-scale model of the aft skirt and five
F-1
engines of the
first stage
of a
Saturn V
, a
Titan II
booster with a
Gemini
capsule, an Atlas with a
Mercury
capsule and a
Thor-Delta
rocket. On display at ground level were
Aurora 7
, the Mercury capsule flown by
Scott Carpenter
on the second US manned orbital flight; full-scale models of an
X-15
aircraft, an
Agena upper stage
; a Gemini spacecraft; an
Apollo command/service module
, and a
Lunar Excursion Module
. Replicas of unmanned spacecraft included lunar probe Ranger VII;
Mariner II
and
Mariner IV
;
Syncom
,
Telstar I
, and Echo II communications satellites;
Explorer I
and Explorer XVI; and
Tiros
and
Nimbus
weather satellites.
The Cold War (began 1947 - ended 1991)
A period of
geopolitical
tension between the
United States
and the
Soviet Union
and their respective allies, the
Western Bloc
and the
Eastern Bloc
, which began following
World War II
. Historians do not fully agree on its starting and ending points, but the period is generally considered to span the 1947
Truman Doctrine
(12 March 1947) to the 1991
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
(26 December 1991). The term
cold war
is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two
superpowers
, but they each supported major regional conflicts known as
proxy wars
. The conflict was based around the ideological and geopolitical struggle for global influence by these two superpowers, following their temporary
alliance
and
victory
against
Nazi Germany
in 1945.
Aside from the
nuclear arsenal development
and conventional military deployment, the struggle for dominance was expressed via indirect means such as
psychological warfare
, propaganda campaigns,
espionage
, far-reaching
embargoes
, rivalry at sports events and
technological competitions such as the
Space Race
.
The Western Bloc was led by the United States as well as the other
First World
nations of the Western Bloc that were generally
liberal democratic
but tied to a network of the
authoritarian states
, most of which were
their former colonies
. The Eastern Bloc was led by the Soviet Union and its
Communist Party
, which had an influence across the
Second World
. The US government
supported right-wing governments and uprisings
across the world, while the Soviet government
funded communist parties and revolutions
around the world. As nearly all the colonial states
achieved independence in the period 1945–1960
, they became
Third World
battlefields in the Cold War.