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Magnificent Seven: America’s Mercury Astronauts
Shepard, Glenn, Slayton, Grissom, Schirra, Cooper, Carpenter. Swap the names around, place them in any order you like — they’ll still be recognizable as belonging to the dauntless men NASA chose as the...
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Scott Carpenter: Rare Photos of a NASA Legend
“When I reached orbit,” astronaut Scott Carpenter wrote in the June 8, 1962, issue of LIFE, “the first thing that impressed me was the silence.” The 37-year-old Colorado native, just the second...
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LIFE: Up Close With Apollo 11
NOTE: Neil Armstrong died on August 25, 2012. Read Jeffrey Kluger’s TIME.com appreciation of the Apollo 11 commander, “A Man of Profound Skill and Preternatural Calm,” here. No photographer spent more...
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To the Moon and Back: LIFE Covers the Lunar Landing
Neil Armstrong, the first human to set foot on the moon, died on August 25, 20012. In honor of his life and career, LIFE.com is republishing the page spreads — and, in effect, the entire issue — of...
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Neil Armstrong: Private Man, Public Hero
Neil Armstrong, who died on Saturday, August 25, at 82 years old, was one of those rare, genuine heroes whose legend grew larger with passing years not because he nurtured the myths that attached to...
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Home, Sweet Home: ‘Blue Marble’ Turns 40
It was not the first jaw-dropping picture of Earth from outer space. That title legitimately belongs to “Earthrise,” a photograph of our lively blue planet floating above the dead, gray horizon of the...
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In Praise of the Lunar Module: From Early Models to the Moon
Artists and engineers share this bond: their visions are often first embodied in rough, rudimentary form. Whether it’s a sculptor working in clay or an industrial designer using three-dimensional...
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10 Iconic LIFE Magazine Covers
As 2012 winds down, and as media outlets online and off begin to roll out their traditional end-of-year Top 10 lists, LIFE.com is gamely joining the fray. Well, we’re sort of joining the fray. After...
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LIFE With the Astrochimps: Early Stars of the Space Race
On the morning of January 31, 1961, in south Florida, a 5-year-old chimpanzee — dubbed “Ham” by his handlers — ate a breakfast of baby cereal, condensed milk, vitamins and half an egg. Then the...
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Apollo 13: LIFE With the Lovell Family During ‘NASA’s Finest Hour’
The story of NASA’s Apollo 13 mission has been told so well, so many times, across so many types of media, that there’s little point in rehashing the details here. From Ron Howard’s rousing 1995 movie...
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John Glenn: Rare and Classic Photos From an American Life
No person alive has been more closely associated, for so long, with America’s triumphs in the early days of the Space Race than John Glenn, and few Americans in history have served their country in as...
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37 Weirdly Beautiful Old-School Science and Tech Photos
During its four-decade run, from the late 1930s to early 1970s, as one of the world’s premier weekly magazines, LIFE covered an utterly dizzying array of people and events. Best-known, of course, for...
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A Space Walk That Went Gloriously Right: Edward White Makes History, June 1965
By all accounts, Alfonso Cuarón’s latest film, Gravity, is a technically brilliant, emotionally gripping thriller. Bringing to the big screen a space walk gone horribly, terrifyingly wrong, the great...
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10 Iconic LIFE Magazine Covers
As 2013 winds down, and as media outlets online and off begin to roll out their traditional end-of-year Top 10 lists, LIFE.com gamely joins the fray. Well, we’re sort of joining the fray. After all, 99...
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LIFE With the Astrochimps: Early Stars of the Space Race
On the morning of January 31, 1961, in south Florida, a 5-year-old chimpanzee — dubbed “Ham” by his handlers — ate a breakfast of baby cereal, condensed milk, vitamins and half an egg. Then the...
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The Apollo 1 Launchpad Fire: Remembering Grissom, White and Chaffee
Men and women have been rocketing into space from the Earth’s surface for the past half-century — long enough that much of the general public now views space missions as relatively safe, rote...
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Magnificent Seven: LIFE With America’s Mercury Astronauts
Shepard, Glenn, Slayton, Grissom, Schirra, Cooper, Carpenter. Swap them around, place them in any order you like — they’ll still be recognizable as the names of the dauntless men NASA chose as...
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Home, Sweet Home: In Praise of Apollo 17′s ‘Blue Marble’
It was not the first jaw-dropping picture of Earth from outer space. That title legitimately belongs to “Earthrise,” a photograph of our lively blue planet floating above the dead, gray horizon of the...
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Alan Shepard: Classic Photos of the First American in Space
When Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space in April 1961, a stunned America had two questions: How could this happen? and When is one of our guys going up there? Weeks later, on...
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Photographer Spotlight: Ralph Morse
A glimpse at the photographers on the masthead of pretty much any issue of LIFE magazine in the 1940s, ’50s, ’60s and even into the early ’70s is an eye-popping experience. There, in black and white,...
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