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Various Space Race era gag crew portraits, because in a business as risky as spaceflight, you need a sense of humor 

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Gus and Ed at Downey, June 1966

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Commander John Young after STS-1, the first orbital flight of NASA’s Space Shuttle program aboard the shuttle Columbia, April 1981

Jim Lovell before a centrifuge run, November 1964

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Astronaut Neil Armstrong floats in his space suit in a pool of water in 1967.Photograph by NASA

Profile shots of Neil Armstrong from LIFE Magazine in 1963. Taken by Ralph Morse.

Space cowboy. Gemini 4 astronaut Ed White dons the hat as Commander Jim McDivitt looks as do G4 backup crew Frank Borman & Jim Lovell. It was the first spaceflight for all involved. Ed White wanted to stay out longer than the 20 minutes he spent on his historic 1965 spacewalk & used the opportunity of taking photos as an excuse to do so. However, McDivitt reminded him of time constraints & White returned. He called it, ‘the saddest moment of my life’ as he re-entered the Gemini capsule. He became the first American to perform an EVA (spacewalk) on the mission.