"Apollo-11 Crew on Way"
Apollo-11 commander Neil Armstrong gives a hearty "thumbs up" signal as he and fellow astronauts Mike Collins (center) and Edwin Aldrin leave their quarters to enter a transfer van for a ride to the launch pad at Cape Kennedy in Florida on July 16...
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"Astronaut Named for America's Second Manned Flight into Space"
A portrait of 35-years-old Captain Virgil Grissom, of the United States Air Force, who has been selected to make the second American manned rocket flight into space from Cape Canaveral tomorrow. Te flight is to be made in a two-ton Mercury capsule...
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"Farewell Kiss for Daughter"
Apollo-17 commander Eugene Cernan blows a kiss to his daughter, Tracey, as he leaves the crew quarters at Cape Kennedy, Florida. With Tracey are other family members of the Apollo spacemen.
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"Ready for the Moon"
The three Apollo-15 crewmen appear confident before the start of their flight to the Moon. From left are James Irwin, Alfred Worden and David Scott.
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"Three Men in a Raft"
Wearing life vests, the Apollo-15 crewmen sit in a recovery raft awaiting pick-up by helicopter. They ended their 12-day lunar mission with a splashdown in the Pacific north of Hawaii about 10 kilometers from the waiting carrier USS Okinawa. From ...
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