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Three day space trip for Gemini 11
Pilots Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon are greeted by crew on top of the Titan II rocket / men are helped into their space capsules / both men lying on their backs looking at control pad / target rocket blasts off / Gemini 11 rocket...
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Gemini XII Returns to Earth
Navy helicopter takes off from carrier ship on its way to retrieve the crew of Gemini 12 / helicopters circle as space capsule descends by parachute / capsule floating in the ocean / Navy frogmen hoist astronauts Captain James Lovell and...
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Gemini VI-A Mission Successfully Launches
Night launch of Gemini VI-A / CU Thomas Stafford and Walter Schirra in the capsule / rocket blasting off launch pad as sun comes up / rocket flies up into space.
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Gemini VI-A Launch is Scrapped at Last Minute
LS of Gemini VI about to launch / smoke blasts out of base but rocket does not move / Thomas Stafford and Walter Schirra walk out of elevator and back to truck.
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Gemini XII Astronauts Celebrate Return
Buzz Aldrin and James Lowell on board USS Wasp cut into huge sheet cake with swords that reads: 'THE END-GTA 12' / crew and astronauts enjoy cake while press take pictures.
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Astronaut Tim Peake joins Red Arrows for military air show flight
Astronaut Tim Peake has joined the Red Arrows for a rehearsal flight at the Royal International Air Tattoo.
He sat behind Sqn Ldr Martin Pert, known as Red 1, in one of the team’s distinctive Hawk fast-jets.
The display over RAF...
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Astronaut Tim Peake flies with Red Arrows
Astronaut Tim Peake has joined the Red Arrows for a rehearsal flight at the Royal International Air Tattoo.
He sat behind Sqn Ldr Martin Pert, known as Red 1, in one of the team’s distinctive Hawk fast-jets.
The display over RAF...
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Gemini VI-A Astronauts Prepare for Launch But Cancel at Last Minute
Screen reads: 'GREAT FEATS IN SPACE HISTORY' / pan of space center and surrounding area at Cape Canaveral / Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Stafford seated with technician assisting him with astronaut suit / Command Pilot Walter Schirra seated...
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Astronaut Sitting On Couch And Working With Computer
Astronaut Sitting On Couch And Working With Computer
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Astronaut Sitting On A Rock And Working With Computer
Astronaut Sitting On A Rock And Working With Computer
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Astronaut Flying Over The North Pole - Close Up
Astronaut Flying Over The North Pole - Close Up
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Elon Musk announces first private astronaut to travel to the moon, Yusaku Maezawa
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Lunar Rover Vehicle on moon surface during Apollo 16 mission
Astronaut John Young driving Lunar Rover Vehicle on moon surface during Apollo 16 mission / rover kicks up dust as it drives around in circles.
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Astronaut Karol Bobko playing with gyroscope in Space Shuttle
Astronaut Karol Bobko playing with gyroscope in Space Shuttle
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Apollo 12 astronaut on moon surface
/ Apollo 12 astronaut (either Charles Conrad or Alan Bean) working outside landing craft. Apollo 12 astronaut on moon surface on November 19, 1969 in In Space (Footage by Getty Images)
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Apollo 17 astronaut on moon surface
/ astronaut (either Eugene Cernan or Harrison Schmitt) walking around on moon surface. Apollo 17 astronaut on moon surface on December 11, 1972 in In Space (Footage by Getty Images)
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Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, stepping off ladder onto lunar surface, first man on the moon
Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, stepping off ladder onto lunar surface, first man on the moon
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Astronaut Scott Carpenter
Scott Carpenter in space suit inside Aurora 7 on launch day / capsule being sealed / NASA control room / United States Navy aircraft carrier with helicopter taking off / aerial launch pad / countdown in progress / engineers doing final...
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CLEAN : Chinese rocket blasts off carrying crew to new space station
The first astronauts for China's new space station blasted off on Thursday for the country's longest crewed mission to date, a major step in establishing Beijing as a leading space power (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)