Omega and Rolex … "working together" … Apollo 17 geology training in summer of 1972, Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan .
More modern Speedmaster action, from September 2019, featuring ISS Expedition 61/62 crew members Oleg Skripochka (ROSCOSMOS), Jessica Meir (NASA), and Hazzaa Ali Almansoori (United Arab Emirates) during pre-flight activities in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. X-33, X-33, and...wait for it... ...X-33 Image Credit: NASA
45 years ago... September 1974 Apollo15 astronaut Jim Irwin visited the UK and had a meeting with prime minister Wilson, no idea what watch he was wearing The Union Jack was flown to the Moon in August 1971 also note Irwin's HighFlight foundation logo .
1963, X-15 test pilot Joseph Walker wearing an Accutron Astronaut tuning fork wristwatch over the left forearm of his David Clark suit. The David Clark pressure suit allowed the testpilot freedom of movement while keeping him comfortable and protected in the event of cabin pressure failure or emergency ejection from the X-15 at extreme altitudes. Theoretically, the X15 ejection seat allowed the testpilot to escape at speeds up to Mach 4.0. The pressure suit incorporated an inner ventilation layer to cool the pilot and an outer heat & fire resistant layer... In fact, by 1947 David Clark had gained an Air Corps contract to procure pressure suits to pilots. Charles "Chuck" Yeager was among those to test these in centrifuges and altitude test chambers. He was always joking that David Clark was in fact a corset manufacturer in the bra & panties business
August 1963, after a decade as a Naval aviator and 8 years as a civilian test pilot, for among others the century series high-speed jets and X-15, Neil Armstrong got selected as NASA astronaut in group 2. Here’s he putting on ejection seat spurs holding a flightplan between his teeth. Note the NASA patch on his shoulder and it looks like he wore a Hamilton pilot watch. (Photo: NASA)
Peace and success on your journey to the stars, Comrade Cosmonaut Leonov. Image Credit: Wikipedia Commons
60 years ago... USAF pilots volunteered for test pilot class 1960... Do You recognize & can You find the future NASA astronauts ? .
Spoiled for choice, selecting 24 out of 48 NASA photos as we're working on the MoonwatchUniverse update for November 2019... celebrating the landing in the Ocean of Storms... 50 years Apollo 12 Cheers for now ! .
1968 rare photo in which the Omega Speedmaster chronographs are visible on a long white velcro during Ingress/Egress procedures in the LM/LTA-8 inside the Space Environment Simulation Lab vacuum chamber... During other tests of the early A6L spacesuits, no chronographs were worn. Shown here, Grumman engineer Gerald Gibbons (1929-2018) and astronaut James Irwin (1930-1991). .
40 years ago... Tom Wolfe wrote The Right Stuff 50 years ago... Apollo 12 astronauts travelled to the Moon 75 years ago... USAF Test Pilot School was founded . And more, all featured at MoonwatchUniverse: https://moonwatchuniverse.tumblr.com/archive
The UAE space Agency H. Ali Almansoori is working for is named Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC)