Color Photograph Files, 1965 - 2002
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Glenn, John, 1921-2016
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John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (b. July 18, 1921, Cambridge, Guernsey County-d. December 8, 2016, Columbus, Ohio), astronaut and U.S. Senator from Ohio. He attended public schools of New Concord, Ohio, and later graduated from Muskingum College. Glenn served in the United States Marine Corps from 1942 to 1965, and was later a test pilot and joining the United States space program in 1959. He was selected as one of the original seven Mercury astronauts. In February 1962, Glenn became the first American...
Resnik, Judith, 1949-1986
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Judith Resnik was born on April 5, 1949 in Akron, Ohio to Dr. Marvin and Sarah Resnik. She attended Akron public schools, graduating from Firestone High School in 1966. She continued her education, receiving a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1970, and a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1977. In January 1978, she was selected to join the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). While at NASA...
Lucid, Shannon, 1943-
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Shannon Lucid (b. Jan. 14, 1943, Shanghai, China) was an astronaut in the first class of female astronauts in 1978. She served on the Discovery (STS-51-G), Atlantis (STS-34, STS-43, STS-76, STS-79), Columbia (STS-58), and Mir-NASA 1....
Sullivan, Kathryn D. (Kathryn Dwyer), 1951-
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Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan, PhD (b. Oct. 3, 1951, Patterson, NJ) is a geologist, former NASA astronaut, and oceanographer who was the first American woman to walk in space, the first woman to dive to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench (the deepest part of the Earth’s oceans), and is the first and only person to do both. She also served as an astronaut on the Discovery and Atlantis shuttles. In total, Sullivan flew on three shuttle missions, including the mission that deployed the Hubble Spac...
Apollo 11 (Spacecraft)
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Apollo 11 was the fifth human spaceflight of the Apollo program, the third human voyage to the moon, and the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It launched on July 16, 1969 carrying Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin. On July 21, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the Moon, while Collins orbited above. The mission fulfilled President John F. Kennedy's goal of "landing a man on the moon and ret...
