Freckle-faced, twelve-year-old Billy Doyle gets the fulfillment of his greatest wish as Gemini 10 space walker Michael Collins hands him a piece of cake aboard the helicopter carrier Guadalcanal.
Wearing a three-day growth of beard, the beaming crew of the Gemini 10, John W. Young and Michael Collins, stand on the deck of the helicopter carrier Guadalcanal.
The 83-foot orange and white parachute that lowered the Gemini 10 space craft after reentry lies below the surface of the western Atlantic after the almost perfect pinpoint landing of the craft in recovery area.
Gemini 10 Astronauts Michael Collins and John W. Young sit in a raft with three frogmen as they wait for a helicopter to pick them up after they emerged from their spacecraft after splash down in the western Atlantic.