After wearing the same Omega Speedmaster from 1994 to 2019, MoonwatchUniverse has grown a huge appetite for other brands used in spaceflight missions... we already have an Astronauts wore Rolex topic, here's a Heuer topic . Our collection has a dozen photos showing Air Force pilots & backseaters wearing Heuer Autavia during the latter stages of the Vietnam war in the early 1970s, but we'll focus on spaceflight instead... 50 years ago an Heuer Autavia chronograph at NASA... as between 1972 & 1982 well-known NASA astronaut & physician Franklin Story Musgrave wore an Autavia chronograph. In 1967, Story Musgrave was selected as a NASA astronaut and after completing flight training he started as a backup for the Skylab space station program. Already in 1972, Musgrave conducted cardiovascular research for spaceflight laboartories, a week-long simulation which was repeated in January 1976 as the Life Sciences Spacelab Simulation Mission II. He wore his Heuer Autavia 11630 chronograph during both simulations and in the early 1973 Skylab backup crew photo! Musgrave is the only astronaut to have flown on all 5 Space Shuttle orbiters and retired from NASA after 30 years, in 1997. (Photos: NASA) .
May 1980... Soyuz-36 became the 11th mission to and the 9th to successful dock at the Soviet-Russian Salyut-6 space station. Both cosmonauts, Valery Kubasov & Bertalan Farkas wore a Heuer Montreal Day Date chronograph .
Story Musgrave still wearing the Heuer Autavia with Tachymeter bezel in this 1982 Space Shuttle crew-photo for STS-6 "Challenger" (April 1983). It looks like Musgrave wore the Heuer for at least 10 years but didn't wear it onboard any of the 6 space shuttle missions he flew between 1983 and 1996. (Photo: NASA) .
Story is a man whose relentless pursuit of knowledge puts virtually everyone else on the planet to shame. The man collected degrees and certifications the way some people collect stamps. Or watches. If I had a good way of capturing them, there's a couple of photos in his book with visible watches. Unfortunately, the print quality is poor, the paper glossy, and my cellphone makes them completely illegible.