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S61-03506 (1961) --- Project Mercury astronaut M. Scott Carpenter, prime pilot for the United States second manned...
JSC2007-E-046479 (5 May 1961) --- Crew members of the U.S. Navy Carrier Champlain cheer and take pictures of the...
Gus Grissom trying on a Spacesuit; Seated with assistant; Seated with assistant putting on boots; Standing by...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. is hoisted up in a body harness by a U.S. Marine...
Gus Grissom trying on a Spacesuit; Seated with assistant; Seated with assistant putting on boots; Standing by...
Portrait of George M. Low, he transferred to NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he served as Chief of...
S61-03510 (1961) --- Project Mercury astronaut M. Scott Carpenter smiles, in his pressure suit, prior to...
Gus Grissom trying on a Spacesuit; Seated with assistant; Seated with assistant putting on boots; Standing by...
S64-14861 (1962) --- Department of Defense (DOD) recovery personnel and spacecraft technicians from NASA and...
S63-07608 (1963) --- Preparation for launch of Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9). Photo credit: NASA
Project Gemini: On Jan. 3, 1962, NASA announced the advanced Mercury Mark II project had been named "Gemini." After...
In the blockhouse at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Pad 14, Sonny Witt, director of Operations for the...
Taraji P. Henson, who portrays Katherine Johnson in the upcoming motion picture "Hidden Figures," looks at a display...
Octavia Spencer, who portrays Dorothy Vaughan in the upcoming motion picture "Hidden Figures," looks at a display...
Taraji P. Henson, who portrays Katherine Johnson in the upcoming motion picture "Hidden Figures," reads the...
Taraji P. Henson, who portrays Katherine Johnson in the upcoming motion picture "Hidden Figures," looks through a...
Octavia Spencer, who portrays Dorothy Vaughan in the upcoming motion picture "Hidden Figures," looks through a...
In the blockhouse at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Pad 14, cast and crew members of the upcoming motion...
Kennedy Space Center Associate Director Kelvin Manning, left, and Center Director Bob Cabana, center, provide a tour...
Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, right, provides a tour for cast and crew members of the upcoming motion...
Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, right, provides a tour for cast and crew members of the upcoming motion...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Rocket Garden at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, a United...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- AWAITING ORDERS to proceed to the launching site for Project Mercury's second attempt...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A Project Mercury spacecraft carrying astronaut Virgil I. 'Gus' Grissom on the...