Topps “Astronauts” collectible 55-card set uncut sheet, 1963.
The series featured the original seven astronauts who boarded the Mercury Spaceship, including John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Virgil Grissom, Gordon Cooper, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Donald Slayton. Via ha.com.
Assembling Atlas rockets. Photo: Ralph Crane. In: LIFE Science Library - Matter by Ralph E. Lapp and the Editors of TIME - LIFE BOOKS, 1963 (hungarian edition by Műszaki Könyvkiadó,1973).
Color photo of the Echo II, NASA’s Balloon Satellite. Photo: Fritz Goro. In: LIFE Science Library - Matter by Ralph E. Lapp and the Editors of TIME - LIFE BOOKS, 1963 (hungarian edition by Műszaki Könyvkiadó,1973)
The 135-foot rigidized balloon satellite was sent into orbit as a passive communications experiment by NASA on January 25, 1964. When folded, the satellite was packed into a 41-inch diameter canister.
Strange photographs of a Gemini XII experiment, 1966.
Source: March To The Moon, 47 files from s66-63601_G12-U_h to s66-63648_G12-U_h. Probably the UV Star Field Camera experiment but I am not sure.
Beautifully thrashy, messed up, fucked up, awesome erroneous photos from the Gemini missions (volume 2.: medium format).
Beautifully thrashy, messed up, fucked up, awesome erroneous photos from the Gemini missions (volume 1.: Leica format).
Urine drops in sunlight.
Image ID: S65-63129_G06-H
Program: Gemini
Mission #: 6
Date: 1966-12-16
Frame #: 29
Orbit: 0
Camera: Hasselblad 500 70mm
Lens: Zeiss Planar 80mm
Film Type: Kodak Ektachrome MS (S.O.-217)
Apollo 13 color photo on a crew-signed mat. A 9.5” x 7.5” color photo captioned: “Apollo 13 Recovery - April 17, 1970” beneath. The crew has signed the 14” x 11” mat below the image: “James Lovell”, “Jack Swigert”, and “Fred W. Haise”.
NACA 1952 Fleet
These people and this equipment supported the flight of the NACA D-558-2 Skyrocket at the High-Speed Flight Station at South Base, Edwards AFB. Note the two Sabre chase planes, the P2B-1S launch aircraft, and the profusion of ground support equipment, including communications, tracking, maintenance, and rescue vehicles. Research pilot A. Scott Crossfield stands in front of the Skyrocket.
Source: NASA / Dryden Flight Research Center
Apollo 16, Hungarian FDC stamp block, 1972.
40 years ago on this day. Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the American Apollo space program. The mission was crewed by Commander John Young, Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke and Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly. Launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:54 PM EST on April 16, 1972, the mission lasted eleven days, one hour, and fifty-one minutes, and concluded at 2:45 PM EST on April 27.
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1964 Ford Galaxie.
