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"Astronaut Named for America's Second Manned Flight into Space"
A portrait of 35-years-old Captain Virgil Grissom, of the United States Air Force, who has been selected to make the second American manned rocket flight into space from Cape Canaveral tomorrow. Te flight is to be made in a two-ton Mercury capsule...
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Neil A. Armstrong, new U.S. space flight test pilot.
The Times of Ceylon Press
America's First Moon Landing Crewmen
America's first moon landing crewmen said recently they were thrilled that the "twists and turns of fate" had brought them the coveted assignment, but they do not know yet who will first step out on the lunar surface. Apollo-11 astronaut Edwin "Bu...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Apollo-14 Astronauts from the Window of their Mobile Quarantine Van Aboard the Recovery Carrier
Apollo-14 astronauts Stuart Roosa, Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell (from left) gaze out of the window of their mobile quarantine van aboard the recovery carrier USS New Orleans. They splashed down in the South Pacific near Samoa February 9 to end ...
Daily Mirror
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
Astronaut Glenn's Wife and Children
"America To Put a Man Into Orbit This Month?" Sometime this month or early in the New Year America will attempt to put a man into orbit and in the person chosen for the attempt is Col. John Glenn. Photo shows"Col. Glenn's family, daughter Lyn (13)...
Daily Mirror
Astronaut Grissom with Officers of the Carrier USS Randolph
CONDITION EXCELLENT -- U.S. Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom walks with officers of the carrier USS Randolph after a preliminary medical check-up is completed following his successful suborbital flight down the Atlantic test range from Cape Canaveral, ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom Climbs into His Space Capsule
U.S. astronaut Virgil I. Grissom climbs into his space capsule Liberty Bell 7.
Daily Mirror