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"Space Man Rings Wife" Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper, 36-year-old Air Force Major talks to his wife by phone from the U.S. aircraft carrier Kearsarge after he had been picked up by the carrier on the completion of his 22-orbit space flight. After ...
Daily Mirror
"On Their Way" Cape Kennedy, Florida: American Astronaut Gordon Cooper leads fellow space traveller Peter Conrad up the ramp to their waiting Titan II rocket and Gemini spacecraft as they arrived at launch complex 19 here today at the beginning of...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Astronaut Alfred Worden with His Daughters
Astronaut Alfred M. Worden, Command Module Pilot of the Apollo-15 lunar landing mission, with his two daughtrs: Merrill, born Jan. 16, 1958, is seated behind her father on the stairway; Alison, born April 6, 1960, is in foreground. (Worden is divo...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Controlling a ground training device, astronaut Carpenter can see the earth's image at his feet, illustrated by the map of the south-eastern United States. The trainer, located at Manned Spacecraft Centre, Langley Field, Virginia, has the same con...
Daily Mirror
Astronaut Carpenter Studying the Flight Manual
Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter studying the flight operation manual during training procedures within project Mercury spacecraft.
Daily Mirror
Astronaut Carpenter at Cape Canaveral
Astronaut Carpenter stands in his pressure suit in front of a giant radar antenna at Cape Canaveral, Florida. He rehearsed his orbital flight many times in the weeks before his mission, practising operating the controls of his Mercury spacecrafts...
The Times of Ceylon Press
"Man from earth" — The farthest manned trip from the surface of the earth is scheduled to be made by the Gemini-11 spacecraft while it is under the command of Astronaut Charles Conrad, Jr., who will look like this during the attempt for an altitud...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Astronaut Conrad Explains the Planned Rendezvous of Gemini-5
U.S. Astronaut Charles Conrad (left) explains the planned rendezvous of Gemini-5 as Astronaut Gordon Cooper listens at a July 19 news conference in Houston, Texas.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Astronaut Glenn Before He Entered the Capsule
Astronaut J. H. Glenn before he entered the Capsule for the Countdown.
Daily Mirror