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'Eagle' Airborne Again After 2-month repair at Katunayake A Cunard Eagle Air-ways four-engined D.C.-6 plane left Katunayake airport on Thursday morning after extensive repairs to its engines and undercarriage. This aircraft which was carrying a c...
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Vice President Spiro Agnew shares a laugh with Apollo-10 astronauts Gene Cernan (left) and Tom Stafford (right) as he receives a model of "Snoopy," the flight mascot. Mr. Agnew visited the crew quarters at Cape Kennedy in Florida on May 17, the da...
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A BACIII airliner — Britain's newest aircraft — took off from Wisley, Surrey recently on a circular trip during which more tests were to be made on aerodynamics and ended in disaster when it lost height rapidly and plunged into this field at Stone...
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Enthusiastic crowds mobbed the astronauts' open car as they were driving out of the Katunayake Airport. Picture shows Alan Bean with his hands up, looking rather worried.
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America's First Moon Landing Crewmen
America's first moon landing crewmen said recently they were thrilled that the "twists and turns of fate" had brought them the coveted assignment, but they do not know yet who will first step out on the lunar surface. Apollo-11 astronaut Edwin "Bu...
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Apollo-12 Crewmen Enjoy the Sun
Apollo-12 commander Richard Gordon leans back and enjoys the sun and fresh air as he and his two colleagues leave the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at the Manned Spacecraft Centre in Houston, Texas, December 10. Charles Conrad, left and Alan Bean, ce...
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Apollo-14 Astronauts from the Window of their Mobile Quarantine Van Aboard the Recovery Carrier
Apollo-14 astronauts Stuart Roosa, Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell (from left) gaze out of the window of their mobile quarantine van aboard the recovery carrier USS New Orleans. They splashed down in the South Pacific near Samoa February 9 to end ...
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Astronaut Alan L. Bean, Lunar Module Pilot, Apollo 12. Photo from IPS.
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Astronaut Carpenter Looks through the "Astro Globe"
Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter looks through the back of an "astro globe"at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in preparation for his orbital flight. He and the other astronauts spent many hours studying astronomy and geography. One of Astronaut Carpenter's s...
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Astronaut Carpenter Training for His Orbital Flight
Technicians adjust the lightweight pressure suit on Carpenter during training for his orbital flight. During normal space flight, the suit is not inflated and the pilot can keep his helmet open to breathe cabin air and eat. If cabin air pressure d...
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