| | Story Musgrave
Space Story is the official website of Story Musgrave.
Story Musgrave was selected as a scientist astronaut by NASA in 1967 and flew on six Space Shuttle flights with 1,282 hours logged in space.
Dr. Musgrave's first flight was on STS-6 in 1983 the maiden voyage of Space Shuttle Challenger. Story Musgrave is the only astronaut to have flown on all five Space Shuttles.
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| | Al Worden
Al Worden graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1955 and then joined the United States Air Force.
Colonel Worden was selected as one of the 19 Group 5 astronauts by NASA in April 1966.
Al Worden was command module pilot on Apollo 15 and performed an EVA ( space walk ) at the furthest distance from earth for any space mission. |
| | Pete Conrad
Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. began his flight career as a Naval Aviator becoming a Navy Project Test Pilot. Conrad was selected as an astronaut by NASA in September 1962. His first space flight was in Gemini V. He then commanded Gemini XI which set a world altitude record. As commander of Apollo XII, Pete Conrad became the third man to walk on the moon. Pete Conrad's final mission was as commander of Skylab I.
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| | Ed White
The offical site of the first American Astronaut to walk in space.
Ed White was pilot of Gemini 4 when he made his historic spacewalk on June 3rd 1965.
Ed White was selected for the prestigious first Apollo mission ( AS-204 ) but was tragically killed in an accident during a routine capsule test.
AS-204 was renamed Apollo 1 after the capsule fire. |
| | Ed Mitchell
The sixth man to walk on the moon as crew member of Apollo 14, NASA's third manned lunar landing in 1971.
During this mission, Ed Mitchell and Al Shepard collected almost 100 pounds of lunar samples to take back to Earth.
Since retiring, Ed Mitchell has focused on studying human consciousness and psychic and paranormal phenomena.
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| | Wally Schirra
One of the seven Mercury Astronauts named by NASA in April 1959.
Piloted the Sigma 7 Mercury flight on its six orbits.
Command Pilot on Gemini 6 which rendezvoused with Gemini 7.
Schirra was also Command Pilot on Apollo VII - the first manned Apollo mission. Wally Schirra was the only Astronaut to fly on Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions.
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| | Dick Gordon
Naval Aviator Richard Gordon Jr. won the Bendix Trophy Race ( Los Angeles to New York ) in May 1961, with a new speed record of 869 miles per hour and a then transcontinental record of 2 hours, 47 minutes.
Dick Gordon was pilot of Gemini XI and walked in space twice during the mission and also orbited the moon on Apollo XII as command module pilot. |
| | Ed Gibson
Dr. Edward Gibson was selected by NASA as a scientist-astronaut in June 1965 and was a capcom for the Apollo 12 lunar landing. Ed Gibson was the science-pilot on the final manned visit to the Skylab space station - Skylab 4 - the longest manned flight to date - 84 days 1 hour 15 minutes.
Ed Gibson and the crew of Skylab 4 spent over 2,000 hours in space and Gibson logged over 15 hours in space walks during the mission. |
| | Walter Cunningham
Walter Cunningham was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 7 which was the first manned Apollo flight test and the first NASA three man mission.
During the eleven day earth orbit mission a number of successful tests were conducted including the command service module propulsion system, and the first live television pictures from a manned space flight were broadcast in the US. |
| | Scott Carpenter
Scott Carpenter was selected as one of the seven Mercury Astronauts on April 9, 1959. Carpenter flew the second American manned orbital flight on May 24, 1962 piloting the Aurora 7 spacecraft through three revolutions of the earth to a maximum altitude of 164 miles.
He landed in the Atlantic Ocean after a flight time of 4 hours and 54 minutes.
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| | Buzz Aldrin
In November 1966, Buzz Aldrin and James Lovell flew on the final flight of the Gemini program - Gemini 12 - during which Buzz Aldrin spent 5 1/2 hours outside the spacecraft establishing a new record for extravehicular activity (EVA.)
On the first manned lunar landing - Apollo 11 - in July 1969, lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin followed Neil Armstrong on to the surface of the moon. |
| | Charlie Duke
A graduate of the Aerospace Research Pilot School, Charles Duke was selected as one of NASA's Group 5 astronauts in April 1966. He was capcom for Apollo 11 and backup Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 13.
In 1972 as Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 16, Charlie Duke bacame the 10th man to walk on the moon. Duke was backup Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the moon, and retired from NASA in 1975. |
| | Alan Bean
Alan Bean was lunar module pilot on Apollo 12 and became the fourth man to walk on the moon's surface in November 1969. Later he was spacecraft commander of Skylab Mission II from July 29 to September 25, 1973.
After retiring from NASA in June 1981, Alan Bean became a full time artist using his first hand experiences from space to create paintings that are unique in their perspective and style. |
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