Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. ASTRONAUT JUNGLE SURVIVAL TRAINING
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Chaffee, Roger B., 1935-1967
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Roger Chaffee was one of the three Apollo I astronauts killed in a fire on the launch pad, January 27, 1967. The other astronauts were Lt. Cols.Virgil (Gus) Grissom and Edward H. White II. From the description of Papers, records, photographs and artifacts 1935-1967. (Grand Rapids Public Library). WorldCat record id: 15212313 ...
Collins, Michael, 1930-2021
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Michael Collins (b. October 31, 1930, Rome, Italy) is an American astronaut and test pilot. He was on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. Collins was also the director of the National Air and Space Museum and served as the undersecretary of the Smithsonian Institution....
Schweickart, Rusty, 1935-
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Rusty Schweickart (b. October 25, 1935, Neptune Township, NJ) is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut, research scientist, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, as well as a former business executive and government executive. Selected in 1963 for NASA's third astronaut group, he is best known as the Lunar Module Pilot on the 1969 Apollo 9 mission, the first manned flight test of the Lunar Module, on which he performed the first in-space test of the Portable Life Support Sy...
Cunningham, Walter, 1932-
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Walter Cunningham (b. March 16, 1932, Creston, IA) is a retired American astronaut. In 1968, he was a Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 7 mission. He is also a fighter pilot, physicist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and radio show host....
Bean, Alan, 1932-2018
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Alan Bean (b. March 15, 1932, Wheeler, TX-d. May 26, 2018, Houston, TX) is an American former naval officer and Naval Aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut; he was the fourth person to walk on the Moon. He was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3. He made his first flight into space aboard Apollo 12, the second manned mission to land on the Moon, at the age of thirty-seven years in November 1969. He made his second and final ...
Bassett, Charles A. (Charles Arthur), II, 1931-1966
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Charles Arthur Bassett II, Major, USAF, (December 30, 1931 – February 28, 1966) was an American electrical engineer and United States Air Force test pilot. He went to Ohio State University for two years and later graduated from Texas Tech University. He joined the Air Force as a pilot and graduated from both the Aerospace Research Pilot School and the Air Force's Experimental Test Pilot School. Bassett was married and had two children. He was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1963 and was assigned...
Eisele, Donn Fulton, 1930-1987
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Donn F. Eisele (b. June 23, 1930, Columbus, OH–d. December 2, 1987, Tokyo, Japan) was a United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and a NASA astronaut. He occupied the Command Module Pilot seat during the flight of Apollo 7 in 1968. After retiring from both NASA and the Air Force, he became the Peace Corps country director for Thailand....
Freeman, Theodore Cordy, 1930-1964
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Theodore Cordy "Ted" Freeman (February 18, 1930 – October 31, 1964), was an American aeronautical engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. Selected in the third group of NASA astronauts in 1963, he was killed a year later in the crash of a T-38 jet, marking the first fatality among the NASA Astronaut Corps. At the time of his death, he held the rank of captain....
Anders, William Alison, 1933-
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William A. Anders (b. October 17, 1933, Hong Kong) is a former United States Air Force officer, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman. Anders, along with Apollo 8 crewmates Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, is one of the first three persons to have left Earth orbit and traveled to the Moon. He was also the U.S. Ambassador to Norway from 1976 to 1977 under then President Gerald Ford's administration....
Scott, David Randolph, 1932-
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David Randolph Scott (b. June 6, 1932, San Antonio, TX) is a NASA astronaut, retired U.S. Air Force officer,and former test pilot. He belonged to the third group of NASA astronauts, selected in October 1963. As an astronaut, Scott became the seventh person to walk on the Moon....
Williams, Clifton C., 1932-1967
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Clifton C. Williams (b. September 26, 1932, Mobile, AL–d. October 5, 1967, FL), was an American naval aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer, Major in the United States Marine Corps, and NASA astronaut. He was killed in a plane crash caused by a mechanical failure in a NASA T-38 jet trainer....
Aldrin, Buzz, 1930-
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Buzz Aldrin (b. Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr., January 20, 1930, Glen Ridge, NJ) is an American astronaut and fighter pilot. He was the second person to step food on the moon with the Apollo 11 space shuttle. Aldrin is a former U.S. Air Force officer with the Command Pilot rating. He also went into orbit on the Gemini 12 mission....
