Apollo-era astronaut transfer van, on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex's Apollo/Saturn V Center.
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Photographed in 1988 at Cape Kennedy visitors center. I decided to post this in tribute to today's 50th Anniversary of the 1st United States manned space flight by Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. The sub-orbital flight in the Freedom 7 spacecraft lasted 15 minutes. Due to the Redstone booster's low thrust capability, orbital velocity wasn't an option for the first two U.S. missions. Admiral Shepard later served as Commander of Apollo 14 and walked on the Moon. Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human being to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.

Freedom 7 is displayed at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

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Kennedy Space Center.

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Gemini IX is currently displayed at Kennedy Space Center. I don't know if this it on display in 1988. I also don't know who the women is that posed in the background. :-)

Scan of a photo shot on film. Canon AE-1 was used for the photo.

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Posted in memory of the Apollo 11 launch to the Moon on July 16, 1969.

Saturn V display made up of S-IC-T (test stage) and the second and third stages from SA-514. It was displayed outdoors for decades, then in 1996 was enclosed for protection from the elements in the Apollo/Saturn V Center at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
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