Apollo-14 Commander, Alan Shepard and Family
If a message is sent across space from Apollo-14 for Louise, Mission Control at Houston will certainly be perplexed because the wives of two of the astronauts now hurtling earthwards in the Command Module "Kitty Hawk" answer to that name.
Seen (a...
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Astronaut Alan B. Shepard in Training
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard squeezes out of the narrow neck of a Mercury spacecraft during a phase of his training. The craft, which is programmed to land in the sea, contains an inflatable life raft, a radio transmitter, and other survival gear.
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Astronaut David R. Scott with Family
Astronaut David R. Scott, Commander of the Apollo-15 lunar landing mission, with his wife, the former Ann Lurton Ott; his daughter, Tracy, born March 25, 1961; and his son, Douglas W., born October 8, 1963.
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Astronaut Edward White
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(1) : U.S. Astronaut Major Edward White II standing in the hatchway of the Gemini IV spacecraft as he begins his historical "space walk".
(2) : White pushing away from the hatch.
(3) : White drifting away from the hatch.
(4) : White floating...
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Astronaut John W. Young, Command Module Pilot
May 1969
On December 21, 1963 the United States launched the Apollo space craft to orbit the moon. The astronauts had two prime objectives -- to go into lunar orbit, and to take photographs of the best possible landing sites for men to set a space...
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