1989 STS-34 - Astronaut McCulley - Rolex Daytona 6263

Michael James "Mike" McCulley (born August 4, 1943), (Capt, USN, Ret.), is a retired American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, metallurgical engineer, former NASA astronaut, and was the first submariner in space.

STS-34 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission using Atlantis. It was the 31st shuttle mission overall, and the fifth flight for Atlantis. STS-34 launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 18 October 1989, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on 23 October. During the mission, the Jupiter-bound Galileo probe was deployed into space.


The five astronaut crew members for NASA's STS-34 mission

Interesting to notice Michael McCulley wore it on his righthand wrist, so he probably wore it in his 1984 official NASA portrait photo:

US naval aviator & NASA astronaut but known as the first Submariner officer in space !
Anyway something to be added here:
https://omegaforums.net/threads/ast...ust-speedmasters-say-it-isnt-so.21667/page-10

Very cool !! Astronaut were allowed to wear their own watch inside the shuttle. I remember an hodinke talking watches about that.

In fact, during each of the NASA programs, astronauts have always worn their personal watches aboard spaceflight missions:
Mercury:
Walter Schirra wore his personal Omega Speedmaster CK2998-4 aboard MA-8 Sigma-7 (October 1962)
Gemini:
Charles Pete Conrad wore his Glycine Airman on both Gemini-V (August 1965) and Gemini XI (September 1966)
Apollo:
Jack Swigert was the first astronaut to wear a personal Rolex GMT-master aboard an Apollo mission (April 1970)
Skylab:
William Pogue wore a Seiko 6139 automatic chronograph on Skylab-4 (November 1973)
...
See: https://moonwatchuniverse.tumblr.com/archive

There is your everyday catch a glimpse of a Rolex on an astronauts wrist cool...And then there is astronaut Scott Altman's Rolex wrist shot cool.

While working on Captain Altman's signed case back for my collection I did a deep dive into some new images to see what I could find and by my count Altman wore no less than 5 different watches on STS-125. Judging by these images I think Captain Altman has a nice appreciation for watches.

Also, STS-125 has one of the coolest crew posters which is a nice play on the Oceans 12 movie poster, and as you can see, both Scott Altman and Danny Ocean are adjusting their watches.



STS-90 a nice two-tone or possibly gold Rolex...



STS-125 a beautiful Root Beer Rolex GMT...



And a close-up of that beauty...

love myself some rootbeer. hopefully sooon