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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 McDivitt & White Set Off
Cape Kennedy, Fla U.S.A.: A Titan rocket roars from the launch pad here this morning, carrying U.S. astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White II on a proposed four-day, 62-orbit flight around the earth. The two spacemen both fathers of youn...
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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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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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Col. Pavel Beley and Col. Aleksel Leonov
"Crew of Vokshod-II" Moscow, USSR: Russia has launched two cosmonauts in a Vokshod-II space ship today. Pictured in Red Square prior to their flight recently are the crew: Col.Pavel Belyaev (left) commander of the Vokshod-II and second pilot Lt. C...
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Cosmonaut Popovich Plays With His Daughter
Pavel Popovich, one of the Soviet space twins playing with his daughter Natasha Popovich, 31 went into orbit on the Vostok IV capsule, just as Russia's third spaceman, Major Andrian Nikolayev, completed his first day orbiting the earth. (August 12...
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Picture by Radio • London Bureau Moscow USSR: A Soviet Radio correspondent is seen talking to cosmonauts P. Belyaev (left) A. Leonov (centre) on their arrival at the cosmodrome after the historic flight in the Vokshod-2, in which and out of which ...
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Soviet Cosmonauts from left to right V. Shatalov, A. Elyseev, E. Khrunov, and B. Volynov, driving through streets in the flower-bedecked car recently on their way to a Kremlin Awards ceremony, were shot at by a young man, who fired two pistols at ...
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Crowd Broke through to Greet Apollo-8 Astronauts
Space Center, Houston: Crowd of about 1,000 braved the early morning cold 12/29, and broke through restraining lines to greet Apollo 8 astronauts. From left to right are William Anders, holding his daughter Gayle, 8; James Lovell and Frank Borman.
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Sweden's Crown Prince Carl Gustaf, equipped as a paratrooper during a visit to a paratroop regiment in Karlsborg, South Sweden. The Prince made a jump from the training tower and found it "wonderful".
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