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Firemen battling with the flames caused by the DC 8 jet airliner of United Airlines, which crashed into a busy part of Brooklyn last Friday after colliding over New York with a TWA Constellation. The other plane came down in the water at Staten Is...
Central Press Photos Ltd.
Viviane Ventura — the South American Actress
The Colombian actress proves herself a South American actress proves herself a South American bombshell. When beautiful South American actress Viviane Ventura saw her first Hollywood movie at the age of ten, she resolved that one day she would be ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Orbital flights conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are part of a long-range program aimed at manned flights to the moon and back to earth by the end of this decade. Astronauts in the program trained rigorously for years...
The Times of Ceylon Press
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
Water Training for Gemini-3 Astronauts
Astronauts Gus Grissom (center) and John Young, pilots of the first two-man orbital flight, practice using inflatable floatation devices in preparation for their space ride. A frogman stands by at left. The "back-up" team, Astronauts Wally Schirra...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Wife of Astronaut Alan Shepard
"Mrs. Alan B. Shepard, Jr." Louise Shepard, wife of U.S. Navy Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr., has many of the same qualities that helped her husband become the first American in space. All of these qualities shine out as a result of Mrs. Shepard's...
The Associated Press
Wives of the Apollo-14 astronauts (from left) Louise Shepard, Joan Roosa and Louise Mitchell.
Daily Mirror
The better halves of the Apollo trio, (from L. to R.) Sue Bean, Barbara Gordon and Jane Conrad.
Daily Mirror
Woman Members of the Fourth Estate, Invites of the U.S. Embassy and Astronauts' Wives
Women members of the Fourth Estate and invitees of the U.S. Embassy met the wives of the astronauts while the Apollo-12 crew were holding a press conference at the G.F.H. on Friday night.
The Times of Ceylon Press