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Various Space Race era gag crew portraits, because in a business as risky as spaceflight, you need a sense of humor 

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A commission for @cosmo-naute of the crew of the Voskhod 1! From left to right: Boris Yegorov, Vladimir Komarov, and Konstantin Feoktistov. Thank you so much for commissioning me!! <33

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you had me at the first line

Ed White, jogging.

Happy birthday to Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), the first human in space, who would’ve turned 85 today!

“Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!”

“My biggest plan, my greatest dream is to do it one more time… to go to space a few more times. I want to fly there, see more, go to other planets.”

From Retro Space Images/NASA…the men of Gemini 4, for Ed White Monday!

Gus inspecting a Mercury capsule, photographed by Bill Taub, circa 1961

The New Nine take part in water survival training, September 1963

The right stuff. President JFK with the Original Mercury 7, Oct 1963. These Group 1 astronauts were chosen by NASA in 1959. In the front we have Gus Grissom & Gordon Cooper while in the back there is Wally Schirra, Scott Carpenter, John Glenn (the first American to orbit Earth), Deke Slayton & the first American in space, Alan Shepard. There were 6 crewed flights in Project Mercury; Slayton went on to fly on the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975. Shepard became the lone member of the group to walk on the moon during Apollo 14 in 1971. Space pioneers.

Neil Armstrong, relaxin’, August 1969. This photoshoot took place a few weeks after Apollo 11 had returned from the moon.