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Astronauts Recovered in the Atlantic

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  • 1969-9-4

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

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  • 1965-12-28

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.

Capsule Inspection

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  • 1961-5-21

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...

The Times of Ceylon Press

Gemini 10 Astronaauts John Young and Michael Collins

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Mission Completed On board the USS Guadalcanal: Gemini-10 astronauts John Young (left) and Michael Collins pictured on board the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Guadalcanal after they had been picked up in the Atlantic following the splash-dow...

United Press International (UK) Ltd.

Gemini 9 Astronauts

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  • 1966-6-12

Gemini 9 astronauts Eugene Cernan (left) and Thomas Stafford coming out of their space-craft after they made a bull's eye landing in the Atlantic, at the end of three-day feats in space last week. The astronauts were picked up by the rescue aircra...

United Press International (UK) Ltd.

Gemini-4 Space Men Splash Down

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  • 1965-6-8

In the Atlantic: Majors Edward White (left) and James McDivitt relax in their rubber lifecraft in the Atlantic yesterday, as Navy forgmen move in to check on them after splash down of the Gemini space craft. Another frogman completes job of attach...

United Press International (UK) Ltd.

Gemini-6 Astronauts aboard the USS Carrier Wasp

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Happy Spacemen — Gemini-6 astronauts Tom Stafford (left) and Wally Schirra congratulate each other aboard the carrier USS Wasp after they completed their historic rendezvous flight. They came aboard the carrier inside their spacecraft after the sp...

The Times of Ceylon Press

Gemini-9 Crew Aboard Carrier

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Gemini-9 astronauts Eugene Cernan (left) and Tom Stafford prepare to leave their Gemini-9 spacecraft aboard the prime recovery ship USS Wasp. They were picked up within an hour after their bullseye landing in the Atlantic east of Florida on June 6...

The Times of Ceylon Press

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