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Water Training for Gemini-3 Astronauts
Astronauts Gus Grissom (center) and John Young, pilots of the first two-man orbital flight, practice using inflatable floatation devices in preparation for their space ride. A frogman stands by at left. The "back-up" team, Astronauts Wally Schirra...
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Woman Members of the Fourth Estate, Invites of the U.S. Embassy and Astronauts' Wives
Women members of the Fourth Estate and invitees of the U.S. Embassy met the wives of the astronauts while the Apollo-12 crew were holding a press conference at the G.F.H. on Friday night.
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Dinner by the PM at Temple Trees for the Astronauts
The Apollo 12 astronauts in conversation with the Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake at the state dinner to them on Friday at "Temple Trees".
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Astronauts Recovered in the Atlantic
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...
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Gemini-9 to be Launched on May 17
Cape Kennedy, Florida — Gemini-9 astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan are set to make America's seventh two-man space flight next week — a three-day earth orbiting mission that is to feature an early linkup with an Agena target satellite a...
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Major System of the Mercury Spacecraft
Major systems of the Mercury spacecraft are represented in this simplified artist's version. --- An artist's impression of the Project Mercury space capsule in orbit. The blunt end of the capsule absorbs the tremendous heat of re-entering the eart...
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