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Water Training for Gemini-3 Astronauts

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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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Gemini-9 to be Launched on May 17

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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

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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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Astronauts of Apollo 13

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From left to right: James A. Lovell Jr. (Commander), John L. "Jack" Swigert Jr. (Command Module Pilot), and Fred W. Haise Jr. (Lunar Module Pilot)

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