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"3 Women to Whom the Moon Remains—the Moon"
Piecing together the jigsaw of questions and answers at a Press conference with the astronauts' wives we realised one thing: there were no feminine fripperies or personal souvenirs that a moon man could bring his wife. Moon rocks and moon dust wer...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Apollo-11 commander Neil Armstrong gives a hearty "thumbs up" signal as he and fellow astronauts Mike Collins (center) and Edwin Aldrin leave their quarters to enter a transfer van for a ride to the launch pad at Cape Kennedy in Florida on July 16...
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The count down has started at CAPE CANAVERAL in preparation for the flight by Astronaut GORDON COOPER. The orbital mission is intended to complete 22 orbits and should last 34 hours and 22 minutes. PHOTO SHOWS— Astronaut GORDON COOPER relaxes in...
Keystone Press Agency Ltd.
"Astronaut Named for America's Second Manned Flight into Space"
A portrait of 35-years-old Captain Virgil Grissom, of the United States Air Force, who has been selected to make the second American manned rocket flight into space from Cape Canaveral tomorrow. Te flight is to be made in a two-ton Mercury capsule...
Central Press Photos Ltd.
Astronauts Afloat Astronauts John Young (left) and Gus Grissom, pilots of the first Gemini two-man orbital flight, float on rubber rafts after escaping from a dummy Gemini capsule (background). They were undergoing water recovery training in Houst...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Awaiting Countdown — America's two-man space team in the Gemini spacecraft atop the Titan-2 rocket that took them into a successful three-orbit space flight on March 23. Co-pilot John W. Young is at left; Virgil Grissom at right.
The Times of Ceylon Press
"Explains Rendezvous Procedures"
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. Cooper and Conrad are the prime crew for the eight-day orbital earth flight schedul...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Apollo-17 commander Eugene Cernan blows a kiss to his daughter, Tracey, as he leaves the crew quarters at Cape Kennedy, Florida. With Tracey are other family members of the Apollo spacemen.
The Times of Ceylon Press