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Astronauts Grissom & Young Inside Their Capsule
"W-H-O-O-S-H And They're Off" Astronauts Gus Grissom (left) and John Young, crewmen for the first manned Gemini flight, lie inside their capsule stop the Titan II launch vehicle at Cape Kennedy, Florida, as technicians prepare to close the hatches...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Astronauts McDivitt & White Set Off
Cape Kennedy, Fla U.S.A.: A Titan rocket roars from the launch pad here this morning, carrying U.S. astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White II on a proposed four-day, 62-orbit flight around the earth. The two spacemen both fathers of youn...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
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...
Daily Mirror
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...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Col. John Glenn Signs His Autograph
Above: The Colonel signing his autograph for an admiring youngster, one of the many who surrounded him as he left the Riverside Presbyterian Church in Cocoa Beach, Florida on January 21. US Marine Lt. Col. John Glenn has resumed his special low-r...
The Times of Ceylon Press
The mechanics preparing to close the capsules of Gemini-5 located in Cape Kennedy, Florida. The American astronauts Gordon Cooper (left) and Charles Conrad are seen in the capsules of Gemini-5, waiting to be launched into the space, who are orbiti...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Cooper's Transfer to Launch Pad
TRANSFER TO LAUNCH PAD — U.S. Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper leaves Hangar "S" for transfer to Launch Pad #14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. He carries a portable suit air conditioner. (63-1700)
The Times of Ceylon Press
Launch of the Mercury-Atlas 6, carrying Col. John Glenn in the space capsule on top, into his historic space flight on February 20, 1962.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Kennedy Space Center, FLA.: Neil Armstrong, commander of America's Apollo 11 moon rocket, is shown close-up during suiting procedures for the three astronauts today. If all goes as planned Armstrong will be the first man in the world to set foot o...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
President Kennedy Talking With Astronaut Walter Schirra
President Kennedy talking with Walter Schirra, next American to go into space. The President was on a visit to Cape Canaveral recently with Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, British Defence Minister. They are on a tour of Military and Civil Space installati...
Central Press Photos Ltd.