Never too late to go back to Apollo 15 in August 1971... and a rare photo to show A15 Command Module Pilot Alfred "Al" Worden wearing the Omega Speedmaster chronograph with special "Minutes" or "Seconds" bezel as discussed here: https://omegaforums.net/threads/nasa-speedmaster-bracelet-id-a-little-help.4797/ .
Don't You love with when a topic appears with a title like ID an Omega Speedmaster by the bracelet Twenty years ago, return of Soyuz TM-25 - Vasily Tsibliyev & Aleksandr Lazutkin .
September 2017... Soyuz MS-06 crew launched to the ISS Flight engineer Mark Vande Hei (top of the photo) even wore 3 wrist watches, two seem to be SpeedyPro chronographs .
Happy Birthday Tom Stafford who is 87 years young today. General Stafford in the cockpit of the YF-16 test aircraft in 1977 rocking his BA 145-022 Gold Speedmaster.
Olympic Games announced... Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 In November 2013 a Russian Soyuz carried Expedition crew 38 together with the "Olympic flame" for Sochi to the ISS - international space station. The aluminum red and silver torch, which for the exception of a tether was identical to the 14,000 torches being used in the traditional terrestrial relay even went outside the space station as, on November 9, 2013 two Russian cosmonauts, Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy, carried the unlit Olympic torch on a symbolic spacewalk relay for the 2014 Games.... Upon return to Earth IMHO the Omega Speedmaster was the star of the show as the watch was seen shining in the Sun light . The Omega SpeedyPro and the "2014 Sochi Olympic torch" during the November 2013 space walk: .
Yesterday, September 24, astronaut John Young celebrated his 87th birthday... Congratulations ! This is a NASA photo of John Young wearing a 145.012-67 on JB Champion bracelet in 1981 .
Indeed... IMHO the best photo is the Apollo 16 photo where we can see that Charlie Duke 's Speedmaster lost the hesalite glass Other good ones are the close ups of the Apollo 12 astronauts and the sleeve of Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard... The best source for all lunar surface photos = https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/ Apollo 14 photo: .
@mikesspeedy If you look back over the previous 19 pages you will find some of the best images out there of the Speedmaster on the Moon. Here is an interesting fact about the image posted above by @SpeedyPhill. There are a number of images, including the one above, that have been used to determine the time of events while astronauts were working on the Moon during post-mission reviews and studies. The above is one of a number of examples found in the Apollo Surface Journal of how a single watch image has been used to determine the time of an event on the lunar surface. From the Apollo 14 Lunar Surface Journal here. The image cited - Credit NASA The time determination made from the image cited - Watch Detail (OF300) Lennie Waugh has captured a detail which gives us an excellent view of Al's Omega Speedmaster Watch, which reads approximately 9:00. Waugh notes that the picture was taken at about transcript time of 113:52. This time does not reflect a 40 minute 2.9 second mission clock update performed at 54:53:36 but, rather, is the time since the actual launch at 21:03 GMT/UTC on 31 January 1971. Consequently, the photo was taken at about 14:55 GMT/UTC on 5 February, or 08:55 US Central Standard Time. The astronauts kept their watches on Houston time, as confirmed by this detail.
When one SpeedyPro isn't enough... Astronaut Byron Kurt Lichtenberg onboard SpaceLab in Columbia's cargo bay during STS-9 mission in 1983.... as first US Payload specialist on a Space Shuttle mission. Lichtenberg later flew on Atlantis mission STS-45 .
@panic k. Make sure to check out MoonwatchUniverse newly scanned 1960s NASA images, some never before seen on the interwebs... https://moonwatchuniverse.tumblr.com/archive .
US female shuttle astronauts geologist Kathryn Sullivan and physicist Sally Ride synchronize watches in preparation for STS-41G mission onboard Challenger, during which Kathryn Sullivan performed the first spacewalk (EVA) by a female US astronaut on October 11, 1984... ( First EVA by a female was made 3 months earlier by Russian cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya mission Soyuz T-7 to Salyut 7 in July 1984 ) . Photo NASA
image credit: www.nasa.gov The New York Times' obit section recently featured a write-up on the passing of Joseph "Joe" Schmitt, at age 101. Mr. Schmitt was a spacesuit technician during the early days of the U.S. manned spaceflight program. In the photo above (with Walter Schirra wearing what appears to be a bezel-less Speedmaster) Mr. Schmitt is the technician on the right. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/07/...-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well Joe Schmitt (technician on the left) is also depicted in Norman Rockwell's 1965 painting "Grissom and Young" (is that a JB Champion bracelet on Grissom's wrist in the painting?) image credit: National Air and Space Museum
October 1966 ... Apollo 1 water egress training in the Gulf of Mexico. Astronaut Edward White wore an Omega Speedmaster 105.003-64 chronograph on Jacoby Bender Champion steel mesh bracelet... Below is Gus Grissom #JBchampion .
Another brave explorer, gone to the next adventure...RIP Astronaut Paul Weitz http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...-at-85-veteran-of-skylab-and-shuttle-missions Skylab 2 Commander Pete Conrad trims Weitz's hair in Skylab's crew quarters image credt: NASA
Another good resource to look at for archival images from the Apollo 11 mission is Getty Images editorial archive (see attached images). http://www.gettyimages.com.au/editorial-images/archival