Navegar Materias Space Travel 
Apollo-14 Astronauts from the Window of their Mobile Quarantine Van Aboard the Recovery Carrier
"Moonmen in Quarantine" -- 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 ne...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Walter Schirra Receiving His "Astronaut Wings"
Walter Schirra receiving his 'Astronaut Wings' from Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Fred Korth (left), in a ceremony at the Pentagon. In the centre is Mrs. Schirra.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Walter M. Schirra, 42, U.S. Gemini-6 command pilot, will guide his spacecraft in the first true orbital rendezvous and docking attempt on October 26, 1965. Schirra flew six orbits in a Mercury spacecraft in October, 1962.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Orbital flights conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are part of a long-range program aimed at manned flights to the moon and back to earth by the end of this decade. Astronauts in the program trained rigorously for years...
The Times of Ceylon Press
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...
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Suiting up - U.S. Astronaut Walter M. Schirra is helped into his spacesuit by suit technician Al Rochford at Cape Canaveral.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Astronaut Lovell as New White House Consultant
Astronaut James Lovell, newly appointed White House special consultant on physical fitness, with President Johnson in Washington. Mr. Lovell will also continue his duties with the Manned Space Flight Center in Houston, Texas. As command pilot of t...
Daily Mirror
Astronaut Lovell and Family — Apollo-13 commander James A. Lovell, Jr., and his wife Marilyn pose with their children at home near Houston, Texas. From left are: daughter Barbara, 17, son Jeffrey, 4, and daughter Susan, 12. Another son James, 15, ...
Daily Mirror
Gemini-4 Space Men Splash Down
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...
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Astronaut Worden Tests a New Spacesuit
Apollo-15 astronaut Alfred Worden tests a new spacesuit at the International Latex Corporation Plant in Dover, Delaware. Modifications include improved neck, shoulder, hand, waist and leg mobility, easier donning and doffing, improved materials du...
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