The crew of the USS Enterprise beside the USS Enterprise in 1976
The crew of the USS Enterprise beside the USS Enterprise in 1976
Astronaut Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, prime crew pilot of the Gemini XII spaceflight, undergoes evaluation procedures with the Astronaut Maneuvering Unit in the 30-foot altitude chamber at McDonnell Aircraft. The Astronaut Maneuvering Unit subsequently was deleted from the mission so Aldrin could demonstrate basic spacwalk capabilities required for Apollo missions
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Astronaut Walter M. “Wally” Schirra Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 8 Earth-orbital spaceflight, goes through a suiting-up exercise at Cape Canaveral several weeks prior to his scheduled Oct. 3, 1962 flight
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Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean holds a special environmental sample container which holds soil collected during the second moonwalk EVA. Commander Charles “Pete” Conrad had just put a soil sample in the tube with a shovel. The picture was taken in the vicinity of Sharp Crater. Conrad took the photograph and can be seen in the reflection in Bean’s visor
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One small step…
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Apollo astronauts & Soyuz 9 crew at a backyard party (left-to-right: Armstrong, Aldrin, Anders, Nikolayev, McDivitt, Conrad, Cunningham, Stafford, Swigert, Gordon, Schweickart, Scott, Lovell, Slayton, Sevastyanov)
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Apollo 17 Saturn V rocket on Pad 39-A at dusk. This was the last human flight to the moon
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Two Apollo 15 prime crew members can be seen inside the Apollo 15 Command Module (CM) during simulation training at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Astronaut David R. Scott, commander, is in the background. Astronaut Alfred M. Worden, foreground, is the command module pilot. Out of view is astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot
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Apollo 13 launch
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Apollo 14 launch
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