Astronaut Cernan and His Daughter
"And Now—A Big Kiss for Daddy"
Apollo 10 astronaut Eugene Cernan, must have left out of this world, as he was greeted by his six-year-old daughter Tracey when he an his fellow crewmen arrived back in Houston for the first re-union with their famil...
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Astronaut Lovell's Family Watch Blast-Off
Kennedy Space Centre, FLA.: Marilyn Lovell, wife of astronaut James Lovell, watches with three of their children as the Saturn-V rocket carrying her husband and fellow astronauts Frank Borman and William Anders rises from the launching pad yesterd...
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Astronauts Check-Out a Spacecraft
Apollo-12 astronauts (from left) Charles Conrad Jr., Commander; Richard Gordon, Jr., command module pilot; and Alan Bean, lunar module pilot, check out their spacecraft at North American Rockwell Space Division here.
Their mission to the moon is ...
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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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BOAC Boeing 707 on Fire
Flames leaping from the wing of a BOAC Boeing 707 airliner which recently made an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport. One-hundred-and-twenty one of the 126 people aboard managed to escape from the blazing aircraft.
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Captain Charles Taylor
Captain Charles Taylor (inset) who made a perfect landing saving the lives of 121 passengers and crew.—(UPI)
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Cigars of Celebration at the Space Center
"Celebration Cigars"
Space Center, Houston, Texas: Flanked by U.S. flags, space flight officials light up cigars of celebration following their successful rendezvous of Gemini-6 and Gemini-7 during orbital flight yesterday. Flight Director Chris K...
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Crash near Zurich's Kloten Airport
Firemen, policemen and rescue workers at the scene of the recent air mishap, where a Swissair Caravelle plane crashed five minutes after it took off from Zurich's Kloten Airport, to become the first major disaster in Swissair's 32-year history. Al...
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Emil Pohlai - Mathilde Iron Mine
Lengede, West Germany: Trapped 20-ft below ground in the Mathilde Iron Mine here, one of three miners, Emil Pohlai, 34, wait and hopes for rescue. This picture was taken during the night by one of the other trapped miners with a camera sent down b...
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