Edwin ,& James
United States astronauts, Edwin Aldrin, and James Lovell smiling cheerfully as they leave a helicopter on the flight-deck of the aircraft-carrier "Wasp"after they had landed safely in the Atlantic in Gemni-12 at the end of their four-day space voy...
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Pilot Marina Popovich
On June 10, 1964 pilot Marina Popovich, the wife of Pavel Popovich, Cosmonaut 4, reached the speed of nearly 600 km/h on a training jet plane during the closed circuit flight. Nobody in the world has attained such a speed on such plans (with a fly...
S. Lyubimov
Water Survival Training
Gemini-8 Co-pilot David Scott is hoisted out of the water on a helicopter rescue seat during water survival training.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Yuri Gagarin's YAK-18
The name 'Yuri' is quite common in Russia. But most of us heard it and had it firmly fixed in our minds by this century's greatest feat in space flight — the first and up to date, only orbital flight.
Above is Yuri Gagarin's YAK-18 on which he as ...
Daily Mirror