Kennedy and Khrushchev meeting in Vienna for an friendly discussion, but the respective positions of the US and the USSR remained irreconcilable since the invasion of Cuba, June 4, 1961 @facethenation
Nina Khrushcheva and Jackie Kennedy during the two-day summit between Presidents John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev @facethenation
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Apollo 11 Command Module pilot Michael Collins shaving off his beard after almost 8 days in space flight, 1969 @facethenation
Pioneering the sport of car racing, Henry Ford developed the Ford 999. He set the world speed record of 91.37 MPH (147 km/h) driving the 999 on frozen Lake St. Clair in January of 1904 @facethenation
In 1932 Henry Ford stunned the automotive world by launching a mass-produced, affordable car fitted with a 65 horsepower V8 engine @facethenation
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Astronauts Scott Kelly, Kjell Lindgren, and Kimiya Yui taste lettuce π΄πΏ that had been grown and harvested in space π for the very first time on August 10, 2015 @facethenation
Michael Jordan's 1988 contest winning dunk. The iconic free throw line dunk remains one of the greatest in the eventβs history @facethenation
French worker, Philippe Cozette, and his British counterpart, Graham Fagg, waved flags and shook hands as the first men able to walk between the two countries @facethenation
On 27 June 1938, four secret service agents broke into Sergei Korolev apartment and arrested him as a spy. Korolev spent 6 years in prison @facethenation
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On 12 April 1961, Sergei Korolev launching a rocket π with Yuri Gagarin - first man into space
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Dr. Zbigniew Religa after a 23 hour heart transplant, watching his patient's vital signs, 1987 @facethenation
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Zbigniew Religa conducted the first successful heart β€οΈ transplantation in Poland π π π
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Freddie Mercury at ballet rehearsal. It was a rehearsing with the Royal Ballet for a gig in 1979 where Freddie sings a couple of Queen songs while everyone was dancing on it @facethenation
Jacques Cousteau was an undersea explorer who invented diving and scuba devices, including the Aqua Lung @facethenation
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First tests of the Aqua Lung π π in June, 1942, on a small beach β± of the Riviera
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John Young prepares to enter the lunar module in an altitude chamber in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building at the spaceport prior to an altitude run, March 17, 1972 @facethenation