Astronauts Check-Out a Spacecraft
Apollo-12 astronauts (from left) Charles Conrad Jr., Commander; Richard Gordon, Jr., command module pilot; and Alan Bean, lunar module pilot, check out their spacecraft at North American Rockwell Space Division here.
Their mission to the moon is ...
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Astronauts Stafford & Schirra Popping Out of Their Spacecraft
It looks like something from the Birth of Venus, but is actually US astronauts, Tom Stafford (foreground, left) and Walter Schirra (foreground, right) popping out of their spacecraft Gemini 6, after splash-down in the Atlantic Ocean after their re...
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BOAC Boeing 707 on Fire
Flames leaping from the wing of a BOAC Boeing 707 airliner which recently made an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport. One-hundred-and-twenty one of the 126 people aboard managed to escape from the blazing aircraft.
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Captain Charles Taylor
Captain Charles Taylor (inset) who made a perfect landing saving the lives of 121 passengers and crew.—(UPI)
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Cigars of Celebration at the Space Center
"Celebration Cigars"
Space Center, Houston, Texas: Flanked by U.S. flags, space flight officials light up cigars of celebration following their successful rendezvous of Gemini-6 and Gemini-7 during orbital flight yesterday. Flight Director Chris K...
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Crash near Zurich's Kloten Airport
Firemen, policemen and rescue workers at the scene of the recent air mishap, where a Swissair Caravelle plane crashed five minutes after it took off from Zurich's Kloten Airport, to become the first major disaster in Swissair's 32-year history. Al...
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Ethiopians In Elisabethville
United Nation-Ethiopian troops are pictured in Elisabethville during Christmas. The troops are said to have bombarded one of Elisabethville's teeming African townships. Reports have also been received of United Nations mortar fire on a hospital in...
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Eugene Cernan with His Family
"Astronauts Re-Unite With Their Family"
Space centre, Houston: The Apollo 10 astronauts arrived back home home today, and were re-united with their families for the first time since their historic trip around the moon. At rear is astronaut Eugene ...
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Gemini 9 Astronauts
Gemini 9 astronauts Eugene Cernan (left) and Thomas Stafford coming out of their space-craft after they made a bull's eye landing in the Atlantic, at the end of three-day feats in space last week. The astronauts were picked up by the rescue aircra...
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