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Project Mercury Ballistic Capsule
Artist view of the spacecraft in which Shepard made his dramatic plunge upwards.
Daily Mirror
Crewmen from the U.S. destroyer Noa attach pulley lines to the Mercury space capsule Friendship 7, with Astronaut John Glenn Inside, after a tri-orbital flight around the earth.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Recovery Training for the Astronauts of Apollo-1
Recovery Training -- Crew members for the first manned Apollo space flight practice water recovery procedures in the Gulf of Mexico. Command pilot Grissom watches from the hatch of the floating Apollo spacecraft as Astronaut Roger Chafee steps dow...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Scott Carpenter Wearing the Spacesuit
Scott Carpenter is wearing the spacesuit, ready to enter the spaceship. A technician is fixing the suit.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Scott Carpenter in a Breathing Test
Astronaut Scott Carpenter is breathing into a tube, during a breathing test.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Scott Carpenter with His Family
U.S. ASTRONAUT RESCUED — AFTER SPACE AND SEA ORDEAL. Lieut. Com. Scott Carpenter, the American astronaut, was rescued in good health after making three orbits of the earth and then spending three hours in the sea due to overshooting the recovery z...
Sports & General Press Agency Ltd.
Second Group of Gemini Astronauts
Gemini Astronauts -- The second group of U.S. astronauts poses around a module of the Gemini spacecraft. They will join with astronauts from the original Mercury group for future flights in the two-man capsule. Counter-clockwise from upper left ar...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Top row, left to right: Malcolm S. Carpenter, Leroy G. Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., and Virgil I. Grissom. Jr. Bottom row, left to right: Walter M. Schirra Jr., Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Donald K. Slayton.
The Times of Ceylon Press
(Top row, left to right) Malcolm S. Carpenter, Leroy G. Cooper and (further right) Virgil I. Grissom (Bottom row, left to right) Walter M. Schirra, (name unmentioned) and Donald A. Slayton.
Daily Mirror