A New Spacesuit for Use in the U.S. Apollo Programme
Four views of a new spacesuit for use in the U.S. Apollo program.
Called the Block II Extravehicular Mobility Unit, the outfit is designed to permit the astronauts to leave their craft after a lunar landing to conduct experiments and to explore th...
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Adtronauts Relaxing & Talking After A Practice
The Gemini-11 astronauts relaxing and talking after a practice session on September 3rd., in a flight simulator for their 3-day space mission which ended yesterday.
Left to right are William Anders, backup crew: Gemini-11 pilot Richard Gordon; Gem...
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Alan Shepard
Astronaut Alan Shepard entering a lift that will take him to the space capsule atop the Redstone rocket—during tests for the American space-shot.
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America's First Manned Apollo Team in Training
These three men are being trained to embark on the first manned, orbital mission of the American space flight (Apollo). It will be launched in the first half of year 1967 and lasting up to 14 days. Left to right: Virgil Grissom, Roger Chaffee and ...
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America's First Moon Landing Crewmen
America's first moon landing crewmen said recently they were thrilled that the "twists and turns of fate" had brought them the coveted assignment, but they do not know yet who will first step out on the lunar surface.
Apollo-11 astronaut Edwin "Bu...
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Apollo Team
The American astronauts who will make the first manned flight in an Apollo spacecraft visit the McDonnel Douglas plant in California.
They inspected the top stage of the Saturn I rocket that was scheduled to send them into earth orbit from Cape Ke...
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Apollo 12 Crew
Crewmen for the Apollo-12 flight, tentatively scheduled for November 1969, are, from left: Charles Conrad, commander; Richard Gordon, command module pilot; and Alan Bean, lunar module pilot.
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