Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations, 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities, 1947 - 1984. ASTRONAUTS RECEIVE COLLIER TROPHY, 10/10/1963.

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Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations, 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities, 1947 - 1984. ASTRONAUTS RECEIVE COLLIER TROPHY, 10/10/1963.

1963

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This series consists of black-and-white photographs documenting activities associated with the first National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) program for manned spaceflight. Included in the series are photographs of the seven astronauts selected for the program; Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (255-ME-19c); Virgil I. Grissom (255-ME-281); John H. Glenn, Jr. (255-ME-16b); M. Scott Carpenter (255-ME-271); Walter M. Schirra, Jr. (255-ME-231); Donald K. Slayton (255-ME-229); and L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. (255-ME-14a). There are also photographs of the pre-manned flights; spacecraft and Redstone and Atlas booster rockets; models of craft; charts; astronaut training; and the launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida of the six manned Mercury missions. In addition, there are images of rhesus monkeys and chimpanzees used as test animals, including "Sam" following his flight on Little Joe 2 in 1959. There is also a picture of Prince Akihito of Japan during a visit (255-ME-21). All photographic prints are captioned and all have corresponding negatives.

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Grissom, Virgil I. (Virgil Ivan), 1926-1967

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Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (b. April 3, 1926-d. Jan. 27, 1967) was born in Mitchell, Indiana. An Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, received his wings in March 1951. He flew 100 combat missions in Korea in F-86s with the 334th Fighter Interceptor Squadron and, upon returning to the United States in 1952, became a jet instructor at Bryan, Texas. In August 1955, he entered the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, to study Aeronautical Engineering. He attended the T...

Akihito, Crown Prince, son of Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1933-

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Schirra, Wally, 1923-2007

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Wally Schirra (b. Walter Marty Schirra Jr., March 12, 1923, Hackensack, New Jersey-d. May 3, 2007, San Diego, California), astronaut. He was one of the seven Mercury Astronauts named by NASA in April 1959. On October 3, 1962; he piloted the six orbit Sigma 7 Mercury flight; a flight which lasted 9 hours, 15 minutes. Schirra next served as backup command pilot for the Gemini III Mission and on December 15-16, occupied the Command Pilot seat on the history-making Gemini 6 flight. The highlight ...

Project Mercury (U.S.)

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Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the U.S. Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty unmanned developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury...