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Astronauts; like you and me, but way cooler

Gosh, why do Frank and Pete look like cinnamon rolls here?

Oh yep, they are cinnamon rolls!!

(4 Dec. 1965) — Fellow astronauts join the Gemini-7 prime crew for breakfast in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building, Merritt Island, on the day of the Gemini-7 launch. Clockwise around the table, starting lower left, are astronauts James A. Lovell Jr., Gemini-7 prime crew pilot; Walter M. Schirra Jr., Gemini-6 prime crew command pilot; Donald K. Slayton, MSC assistant director for Flight Crew Operations; Virgil I. Grissom, Gemini-6 backup crew command pilot; Charles Conrad Jr., Gemini-5 prime crew pilot; and Frank Borman, Gemini-7 prime crew command pilot. Photo credit: NASA

serotonin is stored in this bit of the apollo 12 mission audio

Views of Earth and Intrepid, Apollo 12, 14 Nov 1969.

Introducing the New Nine, LIFE Magazine, September 28, 1962.

My favorite things about this photo, in no particular order:

Ed White’s expression

Jim and Frank. Just in general. But also that weird bald patch on Frank’s head.

HOLY SHIT LOOK AT PETE. PETE, I LOVE YOUR FACE.

The little blurbs about them on the side are totally distressing: why are they giving out these poor fellas’ heights and weights?

On that same note, why is John so goddamn heavy? He’s the wiriest of the lot of them! My money is on that ridiculously broad upper body. And by “my money is on his upper body,” I mean “I wish my hands were on his upper body.”

I totally did not just say that.

Why was this photo taken from up in a tree? I think Ralph Morse had some serious problems with being on the ground. He’s always photographing things from really curious angles.

I laugh af..

hi it's two am and i made a bunch of memes, enjoy

I'm crying.

It's too sad and ... We miss all of you, guys!

I miss you, Neil...

I can’t believe it’s been fifty-five years since the greatest group of guys in the whole world were presented as the next American astronauts