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Apollo-14 Commander, Alan Shepard and Family
If a message is sent across space from Apollo-14 for Louise, Mission Control at Houston will certainly be perplexed because the wives of two of the astronauts now hurtling earthwards in the Command Module "Kitty Hawk" answer to that name. Seen (a...
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Apollo-15 Crew Pose with Training Equipment
Crewmen for the Apollo-15 lunar flight pose with training equipment at Houston, Texas. From left are: David Scott, mission commander; Alfred Worden, command module pilot and James Irwin, lunar module pilot. In foreground is a mockup of the rover v...
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Astronaut Alan B. Shepard at Control Center
Control Center — Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., the first U.S. spaceman, serves as capsule communicator in the control center at Cape Canaveral, Florida during the flight of Virgil I. Grissom down the Atlantic test range July 21. At right is astro...
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Astronaut Alan B. Shepard in Training
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard squeezes out of the narrow neck of a Mercury spacecraft during a phase of his training. The craft, which is programmed to land in the sea, contains an inflatable life raft, a radio transmitter, and other survival gear.
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Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. with the Emblem
Apollo-14 commander, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., with the Apollo-14 Emblem in background.
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Astronaut Alan Shepard in Simulated Space Flight
Astronaut Alan Shepard gripping the side-arm controls inside the gondola of the centrifuge, ready for simulated space flight.
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Astronaut Charles Conrad, Jr., Commander, Apollo-12
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Astronaut David R. Scott with Family
Astronaut David R. Scott, Commander of the Apollo-15 lunar landing mission, with his wife, the former Ann Lurton Ott; his daughter, Tracy, born March 25, 1961; and his son, Douglas W., born October 8, 1963.
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