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reblog this, and tag which one of them would you take to kindergarten

08/09/2021 Ferrari Store Milano (shouting crowd warning! Low the volume or set off the sound)

Jon torturing Lando once again 🙊

I can't stop shaking... I finally got Neil's autograph!!!

Astronauts because I feel weak cause there is like no space on Tumblr at the moment

Oh and also I am going to unfollow a few people who post more non-spacs things than space things cause that's not what I like to see but I will check for space regularly and keep in touch 😉😉 if that's alright

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.

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A 1963 cartoon poking fun at astronaut Ed White’s enormous appetite; and a portrait of the artist, fellow astronaut John Young, in the process of drawing it.

Gemini 4 wives Pat White and Pat McDivitt during their husbands’ mission, June 1965.

Ed White, jogging.

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.

From Retro Space Images/NASA…the men of Gemini 4, for Ed White Monday!

my favoritest boy in the whole entire world

“He might as well have been the brother I never had, a man of gentle strength and quiet humor. There was something very special about him. He really was the astronaut’s astronaut, a handsome and powerfully built man who actually seemed indestructible.” -Frank Borman on Ed White

Neil doodles

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Here, we have a fuzzy Deke Slayton and I see you my John Watts Young back there ehe

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1963 US Space Flight commemorative glass

Cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Andrian Nikolayev, 1960s

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Veterans Day: New Nine Edition

Lieutenant Neil A. Armstrong, U.S. Navy (1949-1960)

Colonel Frank F. Borman II, U.S. Air Force (1950-1970)

Captain James A. Lovell, Jr., U.S. Navy (1952-1973)

Lieutenant General Thomas P. Stafford, U.S. Air Force (1952-1979)

Commander Elliot M. See, Jr., U.S. Navy Reserve (1953-1956)

Captain Charles Conrad, Jr., U.S. Navy (1953-1973)

Captain John W. Young, U.S. Navy (1952-1976)

Brigadier General James A. McDivitt, U.S. Air Force (1951-1972)

Lieutenant Colonel Edward H. White II, U.S. Air Force (1952-1967)

“Even among the astronauts, Ed White had always stood out; a strapping six-footer who had barely missed becoming an Olympic hurdler, he was known as one of the finest physical specimens in the Astronaut Office. And perhaps more than any astronaut except John Glenn, White subscribed to their ail-American image. In 1965, after he became the first American to walk in space, White easily wore the mantle of a national hero. There appeared to be no limit to how far he might go.” 

Andrew Chaikin, A Man on the Moon

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“Seven men emerged from this competitive purgatory as the as the Project Mercury astronauts… This is the beginning for each of them.”

MERCURY SEVEN: The Story of NASA’s Astronauts

Today, I rode my bike to the Ed White Memorial hospital in St Petersburg, Florida. Established in the late 1970’s by his family members and community support, the lobby displays some information on his life in space, most notably, and logically, his Gemini 4 flight. Also on display is one of his training jumpsuits for the Apollo 1 mission. For those wondering why St Pete has this, it’s because his family relocated here after Ed left home. His brother was rather acquainted with the area though. Soon, Emily and I are going to go back here, as well as check out their former home. In a non-creepy way.