Astronauts John W. Young (left), command pilot, and Michael Collins, pilot, the Gemini-10 prime crew during a photo session for the press outside the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Mission Control Center on July 16, 1966. Both men are wearing their spacesuits including helmets. Behind them is a large radar dish.
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Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (foreground), Gemini VI prime crew pilot; and Alan B. Shepard Jr., chief, Astronaut Office, Manned Spacecraft Center, look over a Gemini mission chart in the suiting trailer at Launch Complex 16 during the Gemini-6 prelaunch countdown at Cape Kennedy, Florida, on Dec. 15, 1965.
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The original Mercury astronauts are pictured around a table admiring an Atlas model. Standing, left to right, are Alan B. Shepard Jr., Walter M. Schirra Jr., and John H. Glenn Jr.; sitting, left to right are Virgil I. Grissom, M. Scott Carpenter, Donald Slayton, and L. Gordon Cooper Jr. Photo by Bill Taub.
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Max Munk developed the groundbreaking Variable Density Tunnel and revolutionized how to assess wing shapes, which led to better airplane designs.
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Gene Kranz (foreground, back to camera), an Apollo 13 Flight Director, watches Apollo 13 astronaut and lunar module pilot Fred Haise onscreen in the Mission Operations Control Room, during the mission’s fourth television transmission on the evening of April 13, 1970.
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Astronauts Frank Rubio of NASA and Sultan Alneyadi of UAE return the station’s Treadmill 2 to its normal configuration inside the International Space Station.
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Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. gives a double thumbs-up as he and President John F. Kennedy arrive at the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex in Florida. Glenn’s Mercury Atlas 6 mission lifted off from Launch Complex 14, in the background, on Feb. 20, 1962.
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A two-stage United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida for Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test, Dec. 20, 2019.
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On July 24, 1969, the Apollo 11 crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.
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Sharon Christa McAuliffe received a preview of microgravity during a special flight aboard NASA’s KC-135 „zero gravity“ aircraft. McAuliffe represented the Teacher in Space Project aboard the STS 51-L/Challenger when it exploded during take-off on January 28, 1986 and claimed the lives of the crewmembers.
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