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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...
Central Press Photos Ltd.
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.
The Times of Ceylon Press
"I am Withstanding Well the State of Weightlessness.."
"I AM WITHSTANDING WELL THE STATE OF WEIGHTLESSNESS" "THE FLIGHT IS CONTINUING O.K. I FEEL WELL." "THE SKY IS VERY, VERY DARK AND THE EARTH IS A LIGHT BLUE."
The Times of Ceylon Press
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. Photo from IPS.
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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 ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
The world heroes who conquered the universe - Edwin Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins
The Times of Ceylon Press
"Yuri Gagarin as We Remember Him"
A monument has been erected to the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in the Stellar Town near Moscow where Soviet Cosmonauts live and work. There are always fresh flowers at its pedestal: here come his workmates--those whom he trained for space flights...
Novosti Press Agency
A 'Well Done' from the President
U.S. astronauts Charles Conrad (left) and Gordon Cooper. sporting eight-day beards, chat with President Johnson after completing their record-setting orbital flight in the Gemini-5 spacecraft. The astronauts were aboard the recovery carrier USS La...
The Times of Ceylon Press
A Spacecraft Check-Out by Apollo 12 Astronauts
Washington: Apollo 12 astronauts (from left) Charles Conrad Jr., Commander; Richard Gordon, Jr., Command Module Pilot; and Alan Bean, Lunar Module Pilot, during a spacecraft check-out at North American Rockwell Space Division in Downey, California...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.