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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...
A. Senadheera
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...
IPS
"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.
"Birthday Princess" — Princess Margaretha of Sweden
"Birthday Princess" Stockholm: A new and charming study of Princess Margaretha of Sweden, who will be 20 on October 31st. The Princess is the daughter of Princess Sibylla and the late Prince Gustav Adolf, and the eldest sister of Crown Prince Carl...
United Press Photos
"Black Sash" Demonstrators Silently Stand with Heads Bowed Outside a Public Building in Capetown
The Times of Ceylon Press
"Desertification Means Famine"
Desertification Means Famine. Food aid came too late for two of the three children of this Ethiopian mother; days after this photo was taken they died. According to UNEP each year 21 million hectares of once productive land is rendered useless for...
United Nations Environment Programme
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