Doodling A Floating Neil.

Ed White and Jim McDivitt meet with Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House following the flight of Gemini 4 - June 17, 1965

“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

You guys, I love the “Gemini 4 crew gets their honorary doctorates from Michigan” photos so very much.

Happy birthday to Walter Marty “Wally” Schirra Jr. (March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007)!

“You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.” -Walter Schirra, Sr. on his son Wally, 1962

Reminders

New Nine astronauts during desert survival training in Nevada, 1963. At the top, the astronauts listen to a lecture; at bottom, the astronauts practice signaling for safety.

Not in the best condition, but having some memorabilia is awesome. Hopefully one day I’ll be reading “Man Walks On Mars” as SpaceX progresses through the next decade.

(Credit to the owners) The white family

Deke Slayton and Tom Stafford, two of the American Apollo-Soyuz crew, fishing with Vladimir Shatalov in Novosibirsk. They also met a dog. (Too bad they’re small photos)

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