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Leathernecks take time out to inspect captured enemy equipment.

AROOSTOOK LEATHERNECK IN KOREA -- Marine Sergeant Roger W. McCully, 21, straps Captain Ted Williams, former Boston Red Sox slugger, into his jet fighter-bomber at a base of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Korea. Sgt. McCully, a jet aircraft mechanic,…

Full Report of Yury Gagarin to the State Commission after his mission, on April 13, 1961.

Announcement of the launch of the first artificial "sputnik" satellite by the Soviet Union.

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at a press conference in Finland several months after his space flight in 1961.

Senator Lodge describes the proposed Open Skies program, which was intended to de-escalate the Cold War and provide more transparency for technological and military developments. The Open Skies program would have allowed reconnaissance operations to…

Miss Florence Fowler Lyons displays UNESCO publications and criticizes UNESCO as preaching internationalism and outright atheism in a speech before a meeting of the American Public Relations Forum held at the Immaculate Conception Parish Center. She…

First witness was Ex-Communist Danny Dare, 48, Hollywood producer, director and writer, who gave a dramatic recital of how Communist propaganda is subtly inserted into Hollywood film and stage play plots. Photo dated: March 23, 1953.

Following Yuri Gagarin’s successful orbit in 1961 and President John F. Kennedy’s ambitious plans for investment in space exploration, the American space program suffered a setback when the unmanned Centaur rocket exploded after takeoff on May 8,…

Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.,Lunar Module (LM) pilot, walks near the module as a picture is taken of him. Discoloration is visible on his boots and suit from the lunar soil adhering to them. Reflection of the LM and Astronaut Niel A. Armstrong is…