Mrs. Grissom With Her Two Sons
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- 1961-8-31
Mrs. Grissom emerges from her home in Newport News, Virginia with her two sons, Scott, 11, and Mark, 7, to greet newsmen and neighbours following completion of her husband's successful space flight. "We are very proud and happy", she said.
Daily Mirror
Apollo Training — Astronauts Practising Water Egress
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- 1967-7-2
Members of the prime crew for the first manned Apollo flight practice water egress in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast.
The training is vital to the survival of astronauts returning from space flights. Sliding down the boiler-plate capsule...
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Walter Schirra
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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...
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First Saturn V Flight Crew
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- 1968-6-18
First Saturn V flight crew: members of the crew for the second manned Apollo flight and the first to use the powerful Saturn V rocket, are from left: David Scott, James McDivitt & Russel Schweickart. The launch is scheduled for December from Cape ...
Daily Mirror
Water Survival Training
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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
Apollo-14 Training in a Command Module Simulator
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Apollo 14 Training -- Astronauts Edgar Mitchell , Stuart Roosa & Alan Shepard (from left) train for the Apollo-14 mission in a command module simulator at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Their lunar landing flight is scheduled for early 1971.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Astronaut Lovell Tries on Suit
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- 1966-11-9
Command Pilot James A. Lovell (Jr.) has a smile for photographers as he tries on the space suit he will be wearing during Friday's Gemini-12 flight. He is a veteran of the Gemini-7 mission which established the world endurance record with 206 revo...
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James A. Lovell
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"Ready for Space" --- Command Pilot James A. Lovell (Jr.) has a smile for photographers as he tries on the space suit he will be wearing during Friday's Gemini-12 flight. He is a veteran of the Gemini-7 mission which established the world enduranc...
The Times of Ceylon Press