Russian Spacemen Return to Earth
Latest : Spacemen Return to Earth
The two Russian spacemen climbed safely out of their spacecraft on Russian soil this morning, completing the most daring journey in all history. Their spaceships landed "precisely in the planned area." Both were "...
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Scott Carpenter
America's next manned orbital flight is expected to be launched from Cape Canaveral about the middle of May. The pilot has been named as Liet. Com. Scott Carpenter.
Photo shows: Liet. Com. Scott Carpenter
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Scott Carpenter Meets President Kennedy
President Kennedy and astronaut Scott Carpenter are seen together during the astronaut's visit to the white house yesterday. Scott Carpenter was the America's last man into space and orbited the earth three times.
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Scott Carpenter with His Family
U.S. ASTRONAUT RESCUED — AFTER SPACE AND SEA ORDEAL.
Lieut. Com. Scott Carpenter, the American astronaut, was rescued in good health after making three orbits of the earth and then spending three hours in the sea due to overshooting the recovery z...
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Second Soviet Cosmonaut in Delhi
The second soviet cosmonaut, Major Gherman Titov, with the Russian Ambassador in India, Mr. I. A. Benediktov, and the Chief of Protocol, Mr. S. K. Banerji, on his arrival at Palam Airport, New Delhi, on 02.01.1962. He is on his way to Jakarta and ...
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Seven Mercury Astronauts
Top row, left to right: Malcolm S. Carpenter, Leroy G. Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., and Virgil I. Grissom. Jr.
Bottom row, left to right: Walter M. Schirra Jr., Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Donald K. Slayton.
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Sirimavo Bandaranaike And Major Yuri Gagarin
The Prime Minister presenting a copy of "Towards A New Era" —a compilation of parliamentary speeches of Mr. S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike— to Major Yuri Gagarin at the reception at "Temple Trees" last night.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Soviet Cosmonauts
The Cosmonauts Yeliseyev, Shatalov and Khrunov Being Interviewed after the Flight.
Cosmonauts Yeliseyev, Shatalov and Khrunov being interviewed after the successful completion of Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 flights.
Daily Mirror
Soviet Russia's Four Cosmonauts
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Moscow: Soviet Russia's four cosmonauts, right to left, Lieut. Col. Pavel Popovich; Major Andrian Nikolayev; Major Yuri Gagarin, and Major Gherman Titov pose together on the Mausoleum Tribune during t...
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