Astronauts Meet Cosmonauts
American Astronauts Neil Armstrong (right) and Charles Conrad, Jr., met Soviet Cosmonauts B. V. Volinov and E. V. Khruonuov at award presentation ceremonies of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) in New Delhi, Sunday (Nov, 22).
The FA...
A. C. Pasricha
Astronauts Recovered in the Atlantic
In the Atlantic: The early morning sun dapples the calm Atlantic with myriads of diamond-like sparkles as one of the United States record-breaking astronauts is hoisted aboard the rescue helicopter yesterday. His partner waits in life raft as a fr...
Daily Mirror
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...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Astronauts Visiting Kandy
It was very warm in Kandy when the astronaut trio and their wives visited the hill capital on Saturday, and Richard Gordon (centre) found temporary relief in a drink from his ice can. — (Picture by D. M. Kodagoda)
D. M. Kodagoda
Astronauts Wave
During the motorcade, Captain Conrad puffs a cigarette while waving to the crowds as captains Gordon and Bean also waved to the greeting crowds.
Alan Bean dropped his hat soon after this picture was taken.
It was picked up by a little school girl ...
Mahinda Fernando
Captain Richard Gordon
Colombo, March 17 -- Captain Richard Gordon (right) leafs through an album presented to him by Mr. Victor Stier (left) Director of the United States Information Service, Colombo. In the center is Mr. Arthur Clarke. The album contained pictures and...
The Times of Ceylon Press