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NASA photo March 16 1966 8220 Astronaut Neil A Armstrong command pilot of the Gemini 8 spaceflight sits in the Launch Complex 16 trailer during

1962 NASA photo 8220 Astronaut John H Glenn Jr looks into a Celestial Training Device globe during training in the Aeromedical Laboratory at Cape Canaveral

NASA photo July 18 1966 8220 Agena Target Docking Vehicle 5005 is photographed from the Gemini 10 spacecraft during rendezvous in space The docking adapter

The man who carried the fire a close up of Michael Collins during an Apollo 11 press conference May 14 1969 Photo Credit The Project

In a few weeks the 46th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire will be upon us Sometimes I wonder what Gus Grissom would have done

When smoke gets in your eyes 1965 Life magazine photo nbsp In September John Young 8217 s autobiography Forever Young edited by Neil Armstrong 8217

I know I 8217 ve been bad about updating this blog so here 8217 s a picture of Jim and Ed to cheer you up

Yuri Gagarin Ed White and Jim McDivitt enjoy a handshake mid 1960s nbsp Emily Carney is a writer space enthusiast and creator of the This

8220 Yeah I walked on the moon So what 8221 Screencap from When We Left Earth The NASA Missions Motivation by John Watts Young

Beginning of sunrise sequence from Gemini 7 which flew in December 1965 Photo courtesy of NASA nbsp The hi res images from the Gemini program

Slayton 8220 Guys if you can 8217 t play nice together WE WILL GO BACK INSIDE DAMMIT 8221 From left Thomas Stafford Deke Slayton Gene

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