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Photograph article dated October 23, 1963 partially reads, "It was a call from Atlanta, Ga. the operator told Mrs. Michael Collins of Edwards Air Force Base in the Antelope Valley. Her husband came on the line. "Houston called... thumbs up," he said. "That's all it took," Mrs. Collins told the Valley Times. Her husband had become an astronaut. Two other women in the little community at Edwards got similar calls after four men from the base were chosen in the latest crop of astronauts. Mrs. Collins, Mrs. Theodore C. Freeman, and Mrs. Charles A. Bassett II are a little excited and a little bewildered, but they're sure they'll like their new lives as astronauts' wives." Left to right: Mrs. Charles A. Bassett, Mrs. Theodore Freeman and Mrs. Michael Collins.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Collins, Michael,--1930-2021.--Family Astronauts' spouses--United States Families--California--Antelope Valley Women--California--Antelope Valley Air bases--California--Antelope Valley Edwards Air Force Base (Calif.) Antelope Valley (Calif.) Group portraits Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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