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Project Mercury Atlas 6 Mission pre-flight preparations
Holiday Inn sign wishing John Glenn good luck / astronaut John Glenn eating breakfast before mission / John Glenn suiting up / women spectators waiting for launch, looking through binoculars / sign saying 'Good Luck Glenn from the All...
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Project Mercury Atlas 6 Mission pre-flight preparations
Project Mercury astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) Friendship 7 spacecraft wearing the full pressure suit and helmet / McDonnell Aircraft Corporation technicians assist. Project Mercury Atlas 6 Mission pre-flight...
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Project Mercury Freedom 7 capsule being moved
Project Mercury Freedom 7 capsule being moved on January 01, 1961 in Cape Canaveral, Florida (Footage by Getty Images)
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Astronaut Alan Shepard suiting up for Project Mercury 3 mission
Astronaut Alan Shepard suiting up for Project Mercury III mission on July 28, 1961 in Cape Canaveral, Florida (Footage by Getty Images)
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Tim Peake Boards Helicopter For Karaganda Airport
Tim Peake Boards Helicopter For Karaganda Airport
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Yuri Malenchenko Brought Out Of Soyuz Capsule
Yuri Malenchenko Brought Out Of Soyuz Capsule
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Search & Rescue Teams Setting Up On Kazakh Steppe
Search & Rescue Teams Setting Up On Kazakh Steppe
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Astronaut Sally Ride practices parachute simulator training.
Astronaut Sally Ride practices parachute simulator training.
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Astronaut with metal box in open Shuttle bay
Astronaut with metal box in open Shuttle bay
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wide shot of 2 astronauts in open Space Shuttle bay in space
wide shot of 2 astronauts in open Space Shuttle bay in space
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Alexey Leonov becomes first man in space
CU Alexey Leonov / CU newspaper with headline: 'A WALK IN SPACE' / Leonov climbing into space shuttle / images of a previous rocket taking off / animation of the space walk / animated rocket flying through space. Alexey Leonov becomes...
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3 astronauts working on satellite in open Shuttle bay
3 astronauts working on satellite in open Shuttle bay
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Astronaut Rhea Seddon playing jacks in Space Shuttle
Astronaut Rhea Seddon playing jacks in Space Shuttle
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Astronaut working in space with Earth in background
Astronaut working in space with Earth in background
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high angle of men at controls watching astronauts on screen
high angle of men at controls watching astronauts on screen
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Three day space trip for Gemini 11
Pilots Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon smiling for cameras as they walk down a path / get in car and drive away / Conrad puts on space suit / Conrad and Gordon both in suit transported to launch pad / pilots walk past crowd in hard...
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Gemini X Pilots Prepare for Space Launch
Astronauts Michael Collins and John Young walk in front of NASA group shaking hands with crowd behind barricade / climb into car and drive away / in NASA ready room pilots do final prep with workers / put on spacesuits / crew take bus to...
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Gemini X Prepares for Launch
Astronauts Michael Collins and John Young greeted by NASA workers at top of elevator / Collins and Young are assisted into their seats inside the capsule on top of the rocket / seal doors / INT NASA control room / workers with headphones...