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Neil Armstrong celebrates his first birthday in quarantine after returning from the moon.
Skylab was the first US space station, launched in 1973. Five decades later, people are plotting privately-operated orbital outposts. Does that even make sense?
Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, 1914.
Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan return from three days in orbit, June 6, 1966.
Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders before the Apollo 8 launch in Oct. 1968.
Project Mercury astronaut M. Scott Carpenter, prime pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7), goes through a water egress test. NASA.
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Rubber Ring in a Swimming Pool David Hockney (1971)