Peter Bassett Skylab Space Station NASA Huntsville Alabama Mock-up training module Saturn V moon landing landings Werner Von braun space exploration USA Apollo JFK spacecraft
Peter Bassett Smithsonian Institute Apollo 11 NASA, Air & Space Museum Washington DC, Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin Mike Collins Moon Landing 1969 USA JFK
Peter Bassett Smithsonian Institute Apollo 11 NASA, Air & Space Museum Washington DC, Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin Mike Collins Moon Landing 1969 USA spacecraft
Peter Bassett Smithsonian Institute Apollo 11 NASA, Air & Space Museum Washington DC, Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin Mike Collins Moon Landing 1969 USA spacecraft
Peter Bassett Smithsonian Institute Apollo 11 NASA, Air & Space Museum Washington DC, Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin Mike Collins Moon Landing 1969 USA spacecraft
Peter Bassett Smithsonian Institute Apollo 11 NASA, Air & Space Museum Washington DC, Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin Mike Collins Moon Landing 1969 USA JFK Columbia spacecraft
Peter Bassett Apollo 12 capsule spacecraft NASA moon landing JFK Wernher Von Braun Hampton Virginia Alan Bean Air and Space Museum November 1969 heat shield
Peter Bassett Apollo 12 capsule spacecraft NASA moon landing JFK Wernher Von Braun Hampton Virginia Alan Bean Air and Space Museum November 1969 heat shield
Peter Bassett Saturn 1 Rocket Trainer at Huntsville Alabama USA Marshall Spaceflight Center Apollo moon landing JFK NASA space spacecraft spaceship capsule travel launch pad space camp astronaut
Peter Bassett Apollo 14 capsule spacecraft NASA moon landing JFK Wernher Von Braun Kennedy Space Center Florida USA Astronaut Hall of Fame spaceflight rocket parachute
Peter Bassett Apollo 14 capsule spacecraft NASA moon landing JFK Wernher Von Braun Kennedy Space Center Florida USA Astronaut Hall of Fame spaceflight rocket parachute
Peter Bassett Apollo 14 capsule spacecraft NASA moon landing JFK Wernher Von Braun Kennedy Space Center Florida USA Astronaut Hall of Fame spaceflight rocket parachute
Peter Bassett Apollo 16 Huntsville Alabama Saturn V 5 lunar landing NASA JFK Kennedy Space Exploration Moon Goddard Spaceflight Center parachute space suit spacecraft
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Apollo 16 now has a high wall of perspex infront so can't be imaged like this without special arrangement
EARTH The Moon -- 22 Apr 1972 -- Apollo 16 astronaut Charles M Duke Jnr, pilot of the Lunar Module Orion, stands near the Rover, Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) at Station no. 4, near Stone Mountain, during the second Apollo 16 extravehicular activity (EVA-2) at the Descartes landing site. Light rays from South Ray crater can be seen at upper left. The gnomon, which is used as a photographic reference to establish local vertical Sun angle, scale, and lunar color, is deployed in the center foreground. Note angularity of rocks in the area -- Picture by Lightroom Photos / NASA
Peter Bassett Saturn V 5 Goddard Spaceflight Center Huntsville Alabama NASA Apollo Moon Landing Lunar Wernher Von Braun Rocket Rockets USA spacecraft
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This Saturn V is now enclosed in a new building and cannot be photographed like this again. There are only two others in the world - Kennedy Space Center, Florida & Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas. These are inside too.
Peter Bassett Apollo 16 Huntsville Alabama Saturn V 5 lunar landing NASA JFK Kennedy Space Exploration Moon Goddard Spaceflight Center NOTE 51MB TIFF File is available
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This display has been moved to a new building on site that also houses a Saturn V.
Peter Bassett Rocket Rockets Air & Space Museum Washington DC NASA Apollo 11 Missile Astronautics Smithsonian Institution X1 X15 Chuck Yeager Sound Barrier flight spaceflight moon landing space shuttle
Peter Bassett Rocket Rockets Air & Space Museum Washington DC NASA Apollo 11 Missile Astronautics Smithsonian Institution X1 X15 Chuck Yeager Sound Barrier Spirit of St Louis flight spaceflight moon landing
Peter Bassett Arlington Bridge Cemetery Washington DC Virginia Lincoln Memorial monument capital president JFK John F Kennedy Apollo moon landing grave site graveyard
Peter Bassett Rocket Rockets Air & Space Museum Washington DC NASA Apollo 11 Missile Astronautics Smithsonian Institution X1 X15 Chuck Yeager Sound Barrier Spirit of St Louis flight spaceflight moon landing space shuttle
Peter Bassett Saturn V Saturn 5 Huntsville Alabama NASA Wernher Von Braun Apollo Moon Landing spaceflight Rocket missile space center centre Amanda posing spacecraft
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This is the world's only full size model of a Saturn V standing upright.
Peter Bassett Rocket Rockets Air & Space Museum Washington DC NASA Apollo 11 Missile Astronautics Smithsonian Institution X1 X15 Chuck Yeager Sound Barrier Spirit of St Louis flight spaceflight moon landing space shuttle
Peter Bassett Apollo 1 astronaut astronauts grave Arlington Cemetery Virginia USA Roger Bruce Chaffee Virgil I Gus Grissom fire disaster 1967 moon landing NASA JFK NOTE 22MB TIFF FILE AVAILABLE
Peter Bassett Apollo 1 astronaut astronauts grave Arlington Cemetery Cemetery Virginia USA ROGER CHAFFEE VIRGIL GUS GRISSOM Thunderbirds fire disaster 1967 moon landing NASA JFK NOTE 22MB TIFF FILE AVAILABLE
Peter Bassett Apollo Saturn V 5 five rocket at Johnson Space Center near Houston Texas USA Moon Rock Samples case lunar silver lab laboratory study NASA
Peter Bassett Apollo 1 astronaut astronauts grave Arlington Cemetery Cemetery Virginia USA ROGER CHAFFEE VIRGIL GUS GRISSOM Thunderbirds fire disaster 1967 moon landing NASA JFK
Peter Bassett Apollo 7 flight Don Eisele astronaut astronauts grave Arlington Cemetery Cemetery Virginia USA moon landing NASA JFK
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Eisele was one of the third group of astronauts selected by NASA in October 1963. On October 11, 1968, he occupied the command module pilot seat for the eleven-day flight of Apollo VII—the first manned flight test of the third generation United States spacecraft. With spacecraft commander Walter M. Schirra, Jr., and lunar module pilot Walter Cunningham, Eisele participated in and executed maneuvers enabling the crew to perform exercises in transposition and docking and lunar orbit rendezvous with the S-IVB stage of their Saturn IB launch vehicle; completed eight successful test and maneuvering ignitions of the service module propulsion engine; measured the accuracy of performance of all spacecraft systems; and provided the first effective television transmissions of onboard crew activities. Apollo VII was placed in an earth-orbit with an apogee of 153.5 nautical miles and perigee of 122.6 nautical miles; and the 260-hour, four-and-a-half million mile shakedown flight was successfully concluded on October 22, 1968, with splashdown occurring in the Atlantic, some eight miles from the carrier ESSEX (only three-tenths of a mile from the originally predicted aiming point). He served as backup command module pilot for the Apollo X flight. Colonel Eisele logged 260 hours in space. In July 1972, Colonel Eisele retired from the Air Force and left the space program to become Director of the U.S. Peace Corps in Thailand. Upon Returning from Thailand, Eisele became Sales Manager for Marion Power S
Peter Bassett Apollo J2 Rocket engine Saturn V at the Marshall Spaceflight Center Huntsville Alabama USA NASA lunar mission landing JFK second and third stage engine
Peter Bassett NASA Space Shuttle Crawler world's largest transporter launch pad vehicle assembly building VAB Apollo Kennedy Space Center KSC Florida USA moon landing; NOTE 67.8MB TIFF FILE VERSION AVAILABLE
Peter Bassett Apollo 1 astronaut astronauts grave Arlington Cemetery Cemetery Virginia USA ROGER CHAFFEE VIRGIL GUS GRISSOM fire disaster 1967 moon landing NASA JFK
EARTH The Moon -- 1969 -- Astronaut Edwin E Aldrin, Lunar Module LM pilot, carries the Passive Seismic Experiments Package PSEP left and the Laser Ranging Retroreflector LRRR right, to the deployment area. These two experiments make up the Early Apollo Scientific Experiment Package EASEP. Image taken at Tranquility Base during the Apollo 11 Mission -- Picture by Neil Armstrong/Lightroom Photos/NASA
Peter Bassett Apollo 1 astronaut astronauts grave Arlington Cemetery Cemetery Virginia Thunderbirds USA ROGER CHAFFEE VIRGIL GUS GRISSOM fire disaster 1967 moon landing NASA JFK
Peter Bassett Wernher Von Braun NASA rocket Apollo moon landing Huntsville Alabama USA Nazi WW2 World War two 2 V2 missile 1949 wall plaque at the Von Braun Research Center Huntsville
Peter Bassett JFK John F Kennedy Arlington Cemetery, Washington DC President Jackie Kennedy US President 1963 Virginia assassination cold war NASA moon landing eternal flame grave polarised sky blue
Peter Bassett Virginia Air and Space Center Centre building spaceflight aircraft museum Hampton Orion spacecraft capsule solar panel panels power cells moon Langley
Peter Bassett JFK John F Kennedy Arlington Cemetery, Washington DC President Jackie Kennedy US President 1963 Virginia assassination cold war NASA moon landing eternal flame grave NOTE 202MB TIFF VERSION AVAILABLE
Peter Bassett Apollo 1 astronaut astronauts grave Arlington Cemetery Cemetery Virginia USA ROGER CHAFFEE VIRGIL GUS GRISSOM Thunderbirds fire disaster 1967 moon landing NASA JFK NOTE 22MB TIFF FILE AVAILABLE
Peter Bassett USS Hornet Apollo 11 12 14 Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin moon landing World War 2 WWII, WWII, WW2 US navy splash splashdown recovery 1969 aircraft carrier flat-top flatop President Nixon quarantine facility bugs extraterrestrial virus
Peter Bassett Charles Arthur Bassett grave Arlington Cemetery Washington DC USA training to be a Gemini Astronaut killed on 28th February 1966 with Elliot See in a T38 jet aircraft NASA
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Bassett was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963. In addition to participating in the overall astronaut training program, he had specific responsibilities pertaining to training and simulators. On November 8, 1965, he was selected as Pilot of the upcoming Gemini 9 mission, along with Elliott See as Command Pilot. Bassett and See were killed on February 28, 1966, when their T-38 trainer jet crashed into McDonnell Aircraft Building 101, known as the McDonnell Space Center, located 1,000 feet (300 m) from Lambert Field airport in St. Louis, Missouri. Building 101 was where the Gemini spacecraft was built, and they were going there to train for two weeks in a simulator. They died within 500 feet (150 m) of their spacecraft. Both were buried in Arlington National Cemetery. A NASA investigative panel later concluded that pilot error, caused by poor visibility due to bad weather, was the principal cause of the accident. The panel concluded that See was flying too low to the ground during his approach, probably as a result of the poor visibility. Bassett was survived by his wife and two children.
