Presidential Congratulations
U.S. astronauts Edward H. White (left) and James A. McDivitt putting their heads together to hear President Johnson's telephoned congratulations on their successful Gemini IV space flight. The Chief Executive's call reached them shortly after they...
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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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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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The Gemini-12 Spacecraft
The Gemini-12 spacecraft, with United States astronauts James Lovell and Edwin Aldrin aboard seconds before splashdown at the conclusion of the 4-day space mission, in the Atlantic Ocean recently (left photo).
At right: The spacecraft safely down,...
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U.S. Astronauts Receiving Congratulations from President
U.S. astronauts Edward H. White (left) and James A. McDivitt putting their heads together to hear President Johnson's telephoned congratulations on their successful Gemini IV space flight. The Chief Executive's call reached them shortly after they...
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Capsule Inspection
Capsule Inspection — Alan B. Shepard, Jr., the first U.S. astronaut to ride the Project Mercury capsule through space, inspects the capsule after it was recovered from the Atlantic and take aboard the USS Lake Champlain May 05. Shepard left the on...
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Major Edward H. White Looking at Earth
Major Edward H. White (34) looking down at an earth turned by distance into the lightness of a round and elderly cheese 100 miles below him, as he floated in space during the recent 4-day Gemini flight.
The "umbilical cord" that attached the U.S. ...
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Astronauts Recovered in the Atlantic
In the Atlantic: The early morning sun dapples the calm Atlantic with myriads of diamond-like sparkles as one of the United States record-breaking astronauts is hoisted aboard the rescue helicopter yesterday. His partner waits in life raft as a fr...
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