Showing 60 results Archival description
60 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects
All seven astronauts often pilot modern jet aircraft during their training for space flights to sharpen their reflexes and improve their coordination at high speeds. Posing in front of an Air Force F-106B are (left to right) : M. Scott Carpenter, ...
Daily Mirror
From Left to Right: Astronauts Richard F. Gordon Jr., command module pilot; Charles Conrad Jr., commander and Alan L. Bean, Lunar Module pilot.
Daily Mirror
A New Spacesuit for Use in the U.S. Apollo Programme
Four views of a new spacesuit for use in the U.S. Apollo program. Called the Block II Extravehicular Mobility Unit, the outfit is designed to permit the astronauts to leave their craft after a lunar landing to conduct experiments and to explore th...
United States Information Service
Alan L. Bean—Lunar Module Pilot
Alan L. Bean, Lunar Module Pilot, Apollo - 12.
Daily Mirror
America's First Moon Landing Crewmen
America's first moon landing crewmen said recently they were thrilled that the "twists and turns of fate" had brought them the coveted assignment, but they do not know yet who will first step out on the lunar surface. Apollo-11 astronaut Edwin "Bu...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
The American astronauts who will make the first manned flight in an Apollo spacecraft visit the McDonnel Douglas plant in California. They inspected the top stage of the Saturn I rocket that was scheduled to send them into earth orbit from Cape Ke...
Daily Mirror
"The 10 Longest Manned Space Flights" (listed in order of length) ❖ Ranking : 1 Nation : U.S. Spacecraft : Gemini-7 Date of Flight : Dec. 14 - 18, 1965 Crew : Borman, Lovell Number of Earth Orbits : 206 Flight Time (hours & mins) : 380:35 ❖ Rankin...
Daily Mirror
"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
Astronaut Alan L. Bean, Lunar Module Pilot, Apollo 12. Photo from IPS.
Daily Mirror