Hearst Metrotone News, Inc., Collection. 1937 - 1942. News of the Day Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1963 - 12/1967. News of the Day (Mar. 28)

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Hearst Metrotone News, Inc., Collection. 1937 - 1942. News of the Day Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1963 - 12/1967. News of the Day (Mar. 28)

1965

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U.S. double space success; Gemini flight for three orbit mission; blastoff from Cape Kennedy, Fla.; astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John Young aboard; Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson watches on TV; camera-eye view of separation of second stage; animation; actual landing in water; pickup by helicopters from aircraft carrier Intrepid; helicopters land on carrier; Pres. talks by telephone to astronauts (sound); capsule hauled aboard ship; Ranger 9 sending pictures of moon back to earth; press watches in control room; back to carrier as astronauts cut cake.

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Young, John, 1930-2018

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John Young was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. He flew on four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo command and service module, the Apollo Lunar Module and the Space Shuttle. Before becoming an astronaut, Young received his Bachelor of Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and joined the U.S. Navy. After serving at sea du...

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...