John Young Comes To See You.

The New Nine, together again.

reblog this, and tag which one of them would you take to kindergarten

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Jim Lovell & Frank Borman in TO THE MOON

Jim Lovell: “Just to be confined in there like a sardine in a can, that was a real trial. And, of course, you’re sitting right next to your companion, and for two weeks, being with Frank Borman… Two weeks being with Frank Borman any place was a real challenge. *laughs*”

Lovell: “Frank had a book called ‘Roughing it’ which we tried to read. We also sang to each other.”

Frank Borman: “Nat King Cole, at that time, had a very popular song: ‘Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone’.”

Lovell: “*singing* Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone, let’s pretend that you and I are all alone.”

Borman: “That got on our minds and we sang that damn song for two weeks. *laughs*”

Lovell, laughing: “We still sing it, occasionally.”

John and company during post-flight parades (Gemini 3, Apollo 10, & STS-1)

Doesn’t seem too impressed in the second one…….

Ed White, jogging.

“Garbed as vaudevillians, Grissom and Shepard engage in a bit of horseplay during the early days of the Mercury program. When Grissom gave the photos to [NASA artist] Cece Bibby, she asked him what they were up to. He just said, ‘Fun and games, baby, fun and games.’”

–Ray E. Boomhower, Gus Grissom: The Lost Astronaut

Me imagine a tousle-haired and coldly indignant Neil appear in his pajamas

Cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Andrian Nikolayev, 1960s

1963 US Space Flight commemorative glass