Norman Rockwell Commemorates Gemini Program with Grissom and Young - NASA

In his painting called Grissom and Young, American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell captures technicians helping NASA astronauts John Young and Gus

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Fallout from the Unauthorized Gemini III Space Sandwich - NASA

“I hid a sandwich in my spacesuit,” Astronaut John W. Young confessed in the April 2, 1965, issue of Life Magazine. The conversation about and the consumption

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Apollo 10 Ends Successfully - NASA

Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 10 mission, exits the spacecraft during recovery operations on May 26, 1969. He and the other

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The First Space Shuttle - NASA

In this image from April 12, 1981, the first space shuttle, STS-1, launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with NASA astronauts John W. Young,

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Spacelab 1: A Model for International Cooperation - NASA

It also rarely makes news these days when someone who is not a professional astronaut or cosmonaut flies in space. In the past, flying in space was a

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