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Astronaut Alan B. Shepard during His Historic Flight
Alan B. Shepard Jr., the first U.S. astronaut to ride the Project Mercury capsule into space, is shown as he appeared while on his historic flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida on May 05th. The picture was made by a 16-mm color movie camera attache...
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Apollo-14 Commander, Alan Shepard and Family
If a message is sent across space from Apollo-14 for Louise, Mission Control at Houston will certainly be perplexed because the wives of two of the astronauts now hurtling earthwards in the Command Module "Kitty Hawk" answer to that name. Seen (a...
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Apollo 14 Prime Crewmen Train in a Landing Simulator
Lunar Landers -- Apollo-14 crewmen Alan Shepard (foreground) and Edgar Mitchell train for their lunar mission in a landing simulator at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. They are to put down in the Fra Mauro area while fellow crewman Stuart Roo...
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Apollo-14 Crewmen Training for their Flight
Captain and Crew -- Apollo-14 commander Alan Shepard stand at the base of a lunar module at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. With him are fellow crewmen Stuart Roosa (center), command module pilot, and Edgar Mitchell, lunar module pilot. The a...
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Apollo-14 Commander, Alan Shepard and Family
Shepard Family -- Apollo-14 commander Alan Shepard with his wife Louise, and (from left) niece Alice, 19, daughter Julie, 19, and daughter Laura, 22.
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The Chaplain of the Prime Recovery Carrier
"Prayer for Successful Return" -- The chaplain of the prime recovery carrier Iwo Jima says a prayer of thanks following the successful recovery of the Apollo-13 astronauts April 17 in the South Pacific. The spacemen, from left, are James Lovell, F...
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Astronaut John W. Young, Command Module Pilot
May 1969 On December 21, 1963 the United States launched the Apollo space craft to orbit the moon. The astronauts had two prime objectives -- to go into lunar orbit, and to take photographs of the best possible landing sites for men to set a space...
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During the motorcade, Captain Conrad puffs a cigarette while waving to the crowds as captains Gordon and Bean also waved to the greeting crowds. Alan Bean dropped his hat soon after this picture was taken. It was picked up by a little school girl ...
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