Astronaut Alan B. Shepard during His Historic Flight
Alan B. Shepard Jr., the first U.S. astronaut to ride the Project Mercury capsule into space, is shown as he appeared while on his historic flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida on May 05th. The picture was made by a 16-mm color movie camera attache...
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Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Tries a Custom-Made Couch
Custom-Made Couch -- Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., assisted by Flight Surgeon William Douglas, tries his molded foam plastic couch for size at the U.S. Naval Air Development Center, Johnsville, Pennsylvania.
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Astronaut Shepard Tries Custom-Made Couch
Custom-Made Couch -- Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., assisted by Flight Surgeon William Douglas, tries his moulded foam plastic couch for size at the U.S. Naval Air Development Center, Johnsville, Pennsylvania.
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Apollo 14 Wives
Apollo 14 Wives -- Wives of the Apollo-14 astronauts (from left) Louise Shepard, Joan Roosa and Louise Mitchell.
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Gemini Pilots Young and Grissom
Astronauts John Young (left) and Virgil "Gus" Grissom discuss their three orbital flight in the Gemini capsule at a press conference in Houston, Texas. Both expressed full confidence in the spacecraft and their ability to flight. On the right in e...
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Astronaut Young
Astronaut John W. Young, co-pilot of the first U.S. manned Gemini flight
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Astronaut John W. Young, Command Module Pilot
May 1969
On December 21, 1963 the United States launched the Apollo space craft to orbit the moon. The astronauts had two prime objectives -- to go into lunar orbit, and to take photographs of the best possible landing sites for men to set a space...
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Astronauts Wave
During the motorcade, Captain Conrad puffs a cigarette while waving to the crowds as captains Gordon and Bean also waved to the greeting crowds.
Alan Bean dropped his hat soon after this picture was taken.
It was picked up by a little school girl ...
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