The lift-off of Mercury-Atlas 5 carrying space chimp "Enos" from
Kennedy Space Center.

The NASA Public Affairs Office issued a press release stating "The men in
charge of Project Mercury have insisted on orbiting the chimpanzee as a
necessary preliminary checkout of the entire Mercury program before risking
a human astronaut." prior to the flight.

The craft orbited the Earth twice and splashed down about 200 miles south of
Bermuda.

Enos in his flight couch prior to being put into Mercury capsule.

The Mariner 4 spacecraft.

Mariner 4 (together with Mariner 3 known as Mariner–Mars 1964) was the fourth
in a series of spacecraft intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode. It was designed to conduct close up scientific observations of Mars and to transmit these observations to Earth. Mariner 4 performed the first successful flyby of the planet
Mars, returning the first pictures of the Martian surface. On December 21, 1967 communications with Mariner 4 were terminated.
 

                  
                     Launch of Mariner 4.

The clearest Mariner 4 image showing craters.

Apollo 12 was the sixth manned flight in the U.S. Apollo program and
the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14
from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida with mission commander
Charles "Pete" Conrad, Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean and the 
Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon. The landing site for the
mission was located in the southeastern portion of the Ocean of
Storms.

The flight of Gemini 12 ended successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell
and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. splashed down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.

Portrait of Gemini 12 prime crew. Astronauts James A. Lovell Jr.
(right), command pilot, and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., pilot, are pictured in
a mock-up of the Gemini spacecraft.

Left to right: Don Fulton Eisele (senior pilot/navigator), Wally Schirra
(commander), and R. Walter Cunningham (pilot/systems engineer.

Apollo 7 was the first manned Apollo mission and the first in which live television broadcasts were received from orbit.