Apollo-7 Opening the New Quick-Opening Hatch During a Rehearsal
Apollo Seven command pilot, Walter Schirra, opening the new quick-opening hatch in his spacecraft during a recent rehearsal of emergency escape procedures. The drill marked the resumption of Apollo testing by its pilots after the ground fire which...
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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...
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A New Melody Hit Set in Rome - Ten Thousand Bedrooms
A New Melody Hit Set in Rome - A happy combination of comedy, romance and song, taking place against backgrounds of Rome, is achieved in M-G-M's latest CinemaScope and colour musical, “Ten Thousand Bedrooms”, the next attraction at the Majestic Th...
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Recovery
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.
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Major Titov in the United States of America
Major Titov, Russian cosmonaut and his wife admiring a Jaguar Mark 10 car during their recent visit to the British pavilion at the Seattle World Fair. They were on a three-week tour of the US.— (S & G).
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Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper
"Space Man Rings Wife"
Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper, 36-year-old Air Force Major talks to his wife by phone from the U.S. aircraft carrier Kearsarge after he had been picked up by the carrier on the completion of his 22-orbit space flight.
After ...
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Apollo Team
The American astronauts who will make the first manned flight in an Apollo spacecraft visit the McDonnel Douglas plant in California.
They inspected the top stage of the Saturn I rocket that was scheduled to send them into earth orbit from Cape Ke...
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Evans and Wife
Evans and wife—Apollo 17 command module pilot Ronald Evans and wife Jan.
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Mrs.Carpenter
The American astronauts' wives in Washington before Navy Commander Malcolm Scott Carpenter's flight on Thursday. Left to right (front) row: Mrs. Carpenter and Mrs. Donald Slayton; second row, Mrs. LeRoy Cooper, Mrs. Walter Schirra and Mrs. Alan Sh...
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"The Men Who Dare"
All seven astronauts often pilot modern jet aircraft during their training for space flights to sharpen their reflexes and improve their coordination at high speeds. Posing in front of an Air Force F-106B are (left to right) : M. Scott Carpenter, ...
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