Someone Is Getting Ready To Take Those Nice “first American Spacewalk” Pictures. 

Happy late bday @gusgrissom!! Here’s, well, Gus Grissom!

Astronaut Ed White walks in space, June 3, 1965.

(ASU/NASA)

(credit to the owners)

I’m not happy with it, but it’s DONE

(you really don’t want to know how long it took me)

Happy Shaky Day! Capt. James Arthur Lovell, Jr., born March 25, 1928, turns 92 years old today! Jim was a naval aviator and NASA astronaut who flew in space four times, the first human in history to do so. He’s also an all-around great guy and still going strong! Happy birthday, Jimbo!

A collection of favorite Wally shots for his birthday!!!

RIP I miss you Ed……

Jim Lovell before a centrifuge run, November 1964

I’ve posted this picture before, but I really love this photo of the Deke Slayton and the New Nine laughing during the Nine’s introductory press conference. Only Ed White can keep a poker face.

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.