The Right Stuff (2020), Coming Soon To Disney+

Some of the Astronaut Air Force boys and girls during General McConnell’s visit to NASA, 1966. Wow, they clean up well.

Warning: This photo is BIG when clicked!

Revisiting those super-awkward, semi-escandaloso photos of John and his wife, in bed, from LIFE in 1963. I sort of can’t believe these were taken, because that seems racy for the time, even though John apparently wore all of his clothes to bed. 

Barbara Young: Hon, what are you reading?

John Young: Now don’t you worry that purty l’il head of yours. Go put on some lipstick or somethin’. Heh heh heh!

Drawing Neil again! I love that pic of the crew smiling.

Cute photos of Wally with his daughter, Suzanne, taken by Life photographers Michael Rougier and Leonard McCombe, 1962

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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.

Art by me

Jim Lovell & Frank Borman in TO THE MOON

Jim Lovell: “Just to be confined in there like a sardine in a can, that was a real trial. And, of course, you’re sitting right next to your companion, and for two weeks, being with Frank Borman… Two weeks being with Frank Borman any place was a real challenge. *laughs*”

Lovell: “Frank had a book called ‘Roughing it’ which we tried to read. We also sang to each other.”

Frank Borman: “Nat King Cole, at that time, had a very popular song: ‘Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone’.”

Lovell: “*singing* Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone, let’s pretend that you and I are all alone.”

Borman: “That got on our minds and we sang that damn song for two weeks. *laughs*”

Lovell, laughing: “We still sing it, occasionally.”

Apollo 11: Quarantine 

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