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Gemini-9 will Make 96 Minute Revolutions, 90-Minute Orbits!
Washington — America's Gemini-9 spacecraft will complete about 15 revolutions around the earth daily — one revolution about every 96 minutes during its three-day mission. Yet it will make about 16 orbits daily! The distinction between revolutions ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Project Mercury Ballistic Capsule
Artist view of the spacecraft in which Shepard made his dramatic plunge upwards.
Daily Mirror
(Top row, left to right) Malcolm S. Carpenter, Leroy G. Cooper and (further right) Virgil I. Grissom (Bottom row, left to right) Walter M. Schirra, (name unmentioned) and Donald A. Slayton.
Daily Mirror
From left to right: Walter Cunnigham (command module pilot); Walter M. Schirra, Jr., commander and Donn Eisele, lunar module pilot.
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The Redstone Rocket's Final Stage is Detached
Three rockets tried with the Project Mercury ----- Soon the capsule will be on its own as the Redstone rocket's final stage is detached.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Astronaut Cernan with Wife and Daughter
Spaceman Eugene Cernan greeted by six-year-old daughter, Tracey on his return home; as Mrs. Barbara Cernan looks on.
The Times of Ceylon Press
The Apollo-15 Astronaut David R.Scott
Apollo-15 astronauts David Scott, Alfred Worden and James Irwin, posing in front of the Lunar Roving Vehicle, display the moon-orbiting sub-satellite at Manned Spacecraft Center, Florida. The battery-powered Rover is equipped with a color televisi...
The Times of Ceylon Press