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April 17, 1970 Fred Haise, Jim Lovell and Jack Swigert breathe fresh air after splashdown in the South Pacific. For 90 hours they fought for their lives in a cold, dying spacecraft. The 'successful failure' of Apollo 13 is remembered as 'NASA's finest hour'. #NASA

53 years ago #OTD. John Young and Charlie Duke completed the final EVA of Apollo 16. They were covered in dust, having spent 20 hours on the lunar surface. With the help of the lunar rover they travelled over 16 miles. Duke left a photograph of his family in the lunar soil.

April 25, 1972 Ken Mattingly exits the Apollo 16 spacecraft as it returns from the Moon, two hundred thousand miles from Earth. He is the second of three men in history to have performed a spacewalk at such a distance from a celestial body. #NASA

April 29, 1961 Alan B. Shepard participates in a flight simulation one week before the launch of Mercury-Redstone 3 - the first crewed American spaceflight. The sim took place just seventeen days after the Soviet Union launched Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1. #NASA

Our new film STARMAN will play at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 16th & 17th. Director Robert Stone and our star Gentry Lee are scheduled to attend. I'm really proud to be one of the producers. siff.net/festival/starm…

Wonderful. The dramatic flypast view from the BBMF LANCASTER that was the star of our documentary. Lest We Forget ... #VEDay80 RAF BBMF LANCASTER

To mark #VEDay80 , I am proud to say we have a Haviland Digital double bill on SKY Documentaries and NOW TV today between 7pm to 11pm. #LestWeForget

May 13, 1969 Gene Cernan, John Young and Tom Stafford pose with #NASA personnel days before the launch of Apollo 10. During their mission they would perform a dress rehearsal of the Moon landing - piloting Lunar Module 'Snoopy' to a nine mile altitude above the lunar surface.

52 years ago, #NASA launched Skylab - America's first space station. This was the final launch of a Saturn V - the mighty launch vehicle that carried 24 Apollo astronauts to the Moon.

May 18, 1969 John Young, Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan tuck in to a traditional #NASA steak and eggs on the morning of the launch of Apollo 10. They make up one of the most experienced crews of the Apollo era, with five flights between them over the course of Project Gemini.

May 17 1997: In a very different political era, STS-84 docked with the Russian MIR station. It was Eileen Collin's 2nd mission as shuttle pilot. Our image shows a celebration meal aboard MIR. Against any NASA-like regulation, the Russians had a bottle of brandy in reserve.

Jackie Cochran was a trail-blazing female aviator. Among many achievements, on May 18 1953 Cochran was the first woman to break the sound barrier in a Sabre jet. She would become a sponsor of the Mercury 13 group, to prove women could be fully capable astronauts. [📷 USAF, 1947]

#OTD in 1969 Gene Cernan and Tom Stafford flew the Apollo 10 Lunar Module mere miles above the lunar surface. 'Snoopy' went nuts, entering a spin that could have seen the spacecraft hitting the Moon at 3,000mph. Stafford took manual control and stopped the spin 8 seconds later.

May 22, 1997 28 years ago, Eileen Collins departed the MIR space station as pilot of STS-84. She'd be home in two days. "The Sun was rising over the Atlantic Ocean. It was totally clear. We could see all the way down to Florida, where my family was waiting for me."

Sally Ride was born 26th May 1951. When Ride first flew on the seventh Space Shuttle mission in 1983, she was both the first woman and the youngest astronaut in NASA history, at 32 years old. Her role was as a Mission Specialist, primarily operating the craft's robotic arm.

May 19, 1965 Ed White and Jim McDivitt at the Cape, days away from Gemini 4 - the first American spacewalk. 60 years ago Project Gemini tested the foundation of #NASA's plan for a Moon landing - long-duration spaceflight, orbital rendezvous and extravehicular activity.

#OTD in 1966, Gene Cernan attempted the second spacewalk in #NASA history - exactly one year after the first. Lacking tools that helped astronauts on later missions, the EVA proved a significant challenge for Cernan: "I knew I was driving the doctors bananas down there."

60 years ago today, NASA launched Gemini 4, and Ed White conducted the first American spacewalk, inspiring a generation. Ed White and Jim McDivitt would orbit the Earth for a total of 97 hours - more than every prior crewed NASA mission combined.

60 years ago today, Ed White did the first American Spacewalk, looking cooler than a chilled martini in Antartica in a classic white space suit. Here's a painting of that spacewalk presented to him personally by artist Robert McCall.