JUMP*SUIT

thewoodlanders:

This is, without doubt, the creepiest photo ever taken. It shows the Apollo astronauts hand casts, used to produce the gloves worn on the missions.

bunnybundy:

Neil is as stoked about being on this raft as he has ever been about anything.

bunnybundy:

Nothing was dangerous in 1962.

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bartleby-company:

Backlit photo showing the design of the Irving parachute.

Margaret Bourke-White for Life Magazine, 1937. 

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ourpresidents:

Bill to Break the Sound Barrier

If you were the first woman to break the sound barrier, who would you pick to fly the chase plane behind you?

Jacqueline Cochran tapped her friend, Colonel Chuck Yeager for the task for her May 18, 1953 flight. A logical decision, since he was the first pilot to break the barrier in 1947.

Here is his final bill for his expenses, including the replacement of dead chickens that stampeded when her low-flying Sabre jet flew over a ranch.

More — Jacqueline Cochran, World Famous Aviatrix

-from the Eisenhower Library

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bunnybundy:

“Yeah, but what do I do? My ass itches, and I can’t reach it through the suit!”

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kateoplis:

NACA

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lightthiscandle:

The McDivitts go for a ride, 1963.

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