discoverynews:

scanzen:

Pioneer trio - Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Alan Shepard on the cover of Sunday Texas, April 15, 1962.

From the collection of Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

And on page 2, “President Kennedy’s Marriage.” Headlines have come a long way.

ultrabrilliant:

Mercury Seven, 1960

“From 18 candidates, seven NASA Astronauts were chosen,  each a ‘superb physical specimen’ with a genius-level IQ.”