Medal for Atsronaut Cooper
President Kennedy pinning the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Distinguished Service Medal on Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper during ceremonies at the White House on May 21st. Major Cooper was honoured for his 22-orbit flight in Faith...
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Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper
"On Their Way"
Cape Kennedy, Florida: American Astronaut Gordon Cooper leads fellow space traveller Peter Conrad up the ramp to their waiting Titan II rocket and Gemini spacecraft as they arrived at launch complex 19 here today at the beginning of...
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Seven Mercury Astronauts
Top row, left to right: Malcolm S. Carpenter, Leroy G. Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., and Virgil I. Grissom. Jr.
Bottom row, left to right: Walter M. Schirra Jr., Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Donald K. Slayton.
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Astronaut Carpenter
Controlling a ground training device, astronaut Carpenter can see the earth's image at his feet, illustrated by the map of the south-eastern United States. The trainer, located at Manned Spacecraft Centre, Langley Field, Virginia, has the same con...
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Gemini-7 Crew at Launch Pad
Germini-7 astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell walk to the gantry elevator of Launch Complex #19 at Cape Kennedy, Florida, on December 4. Less than two hours later, after final pre-launch checks had been completed, they were sent into earth or...
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Astronaut Alan Bean
The Apollo 12 crew (left to right) Astronauts Alan Bean, Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon in a command module during an egress training exercise in preparation for their launch and return from the moon.
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U.S. Astronauts Borman and Lovell
Gemini-7 crew-- U.S. astronauts Frank Borman (left) and James Lovell are pilots of the Gemini-7 long-duration orbital flight.
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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...
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