Chaffee! Pure Cinnamon Roll!!

Secret information.

This is what the guys astronauts saw when they flew into orbit.

*music*

Photo in color.

Introducing the New Nine, LIFE Magazine, September 28, 1962.

My favorite things about this photo, in no particular order:

Ed White’s expression

Jim and Frank. Just in general. But also that weird bald patch on Frank’s head.

HOLY SHIT LOOK AT PETE. PETE, I LOVE YOUR FACE.

The little blurbs about them on the side are totally distressing: why are they giving out these poor fellas’ heights and weights?

On that same note, why is John so goddamn heavy? He’s the wiriest of the lot of them! My money is on that ridiculously broad upper body. And by “my money is on his upper body,” I mean “I wish my hands were on his upper body.”

I totally did not just say that.

Why was this photo taken from up in a tree? I think Ralph Morse had some serious problems with being on the ground. He’s always photographing things from really curious angles.

DA FASHUN WITH JOHN.

I looked at the Moon tonight.

I looked at the Moon and its surface through my telescope. She has never escaped so amusingly from sight.

I swear I never felt the way it did yesterday. I was not alone. I was with Neil.

It was a team game, brilliant teamwork.

John Kennedy wasn’t just speaking Robert Kennedy’s words because he improvises at the end of the speech. Robert Kennedy got him to the plate, but it’s John Kennedy who hit the ball out of the park. | American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)

Awww!! Ah have no words!! ✨

Gus 'n' John

Wally Schirra and Deke Slayton in Mercury Control during Gordon Cooper’s Mercury-Atlas 9 mission in May of 1963.

THAT FACE

@apollo-cookies​ this meme’s for you

April 4, 1968 | Dr. King used to say you have to be maladjusted to the problems, to the issues that you see around us. Robert Kennedy was maladjusted. Martin Luther King, Jr. was maladjusted. They had the ability to get in the way. Today we’re too quiet, we’re too silent. We need to find a way to push and pull, and disturb the sense of false peace, and the sense of false order that we have in our society today. I was there standing nearby when Robert Kennedy spoke those words. They were powerful then, and they’re still powerful today. No one had been able to capture the essence of what was happening in America like him. What he said was very much in keeping with the very philosophy and the discipline and nonviolence that was preached and taught by Martin Luther King, Jr. No one in America today is speaking the way Robert Kennedy spoke then. – Rep. John Lewis

Mike, my dear Mike ❤️