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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 McDivitt & White Set Off
Cape Kennedy, Fla U.S.A.: A Titan rocket roars from the launch pad here this morning, carrying U.S. astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White II on a proposed four-day, 62-orbit flight around the earth. The two spacemen both fathers of youn...
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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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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 (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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Col. Pavel Beley and Col. Aleksel Leonov
"Crew of Vokshod-II" Moscow, USSR: Russia has launched two cosmonauts in a Vokshod-II space ship today. Pictured in Red Square prior to their flight recently are the crew: Col.Pavel Belyaev (left) commander of the Vokshod-II and second pilot Lt. C...
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Cosmonaut Popovich Plays With His Daughter
Pavel Popovich, one of the Soviet space twins playing with his daughter Natasha Popovich, 31 went into orbit on the Vostok IV capsule, just as Russia's third spaceman, Major Andrian Nikolayev, completed his first day orbiting the earth. (August 12...
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Picture by Radio • London Bureau Moscow USSR: A Soviet Radio correspondent is seen talking to cosmonauts P. Belyaev (left) A. Leonov (centre) on their arrival at the cosmodrome after the historic flight in the Vokshod-2, in which and out of which ...
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Soviet Cosmonauts from left to right V. Shatalov, A. Elyseev, E. Khrunov, and B. Volynov, driving through streets in the flower-bedecked car recently on their way to a Kremlin Awards ceremony, were shot at by a young man, who fired two pistols at ...
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