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Astronaut Carpenter Relaxes at Home with His Family

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  • 1962-6-29

Family — Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter relaxes at home with his wife, Rene, and their four children, from left: Kristen Elaine, 6; Robyn Jay, 10; Mark Scott, 13, and Candace Noxon, 5.

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Astronaut Grissom

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Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom, pilot of the first U.S. manned Gemini flight.

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Astronaut Walter M. Schirra

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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...

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Edwin E. Aldrin

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  • 1969-7-9

Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., Lunar Module Pilot for the Apollo 11 mission shows his son Mike, 13, a model of the two-stage landing craft Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong will use to set down on the moon.

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Astronaut Walter M. Schirra

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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.

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Adtronauts Relaxing & Talking After A Practice

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  • 1966-4-16

The Gemini-11 astronauts relaxing and talking after a practice session on September 3rd., in a flight simulator for their 3-day space mission which ended yesterday. Left to right are William Anders, backup crew: Gemini-11 pilot Richard Gordon; Gem...

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