Astronauts of Apollo 13
From left to right: James A. Lovell Jr. (Commander), John L. "Jack" Swigert Jr. (Command Module Pilot), and Fred W. Haise Jr. (Lunar Module Pilot)
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Body Sensors Attached to Astronaut Grissom
Body Sensors attached to U.S. Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom are examined by Project Mercury equipment specialist Joe W. Schmidt, at Cape Canaveral Florida.
The electrodes adhesively attached to the pilot's body permit medical monitors to ascertain t...
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Body Sensors on Astronaut Grissom
"Body Sensors" -- Body sensors attached to U.S. Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom are examined by Project Mercury equipment specialist Joe W. Schmidt at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The electrodes adhesively attached to the pilot's body permit medical monit...
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British Scientists Honour Soviet Spaceman
The world's first man in space, Major Yuri Gagarin, looking at some early scientific books in the library of Burlington House, headquarters of the Royal Society today. One of the books he saw was Newton's "Principia" (First edition) - Newton's the...
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Call from President Kennedy
John Glenn (above) takes a congratulatory call from President Kennedy who said it for the world: "well done!"
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Capsule Inspection
Capsule Inspection — Alan B. Shepard, Jr., the first U.S. astronaut to ride the Project Mercury capsule through space, inspects the capsule after it was recovered from the Atlantic and take aboard the USS Lake Champlain May 05. Shepard left the on...
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