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·Friday 10th April...
Hidden gems from the NASA photo archive
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·Apollo 13 commander James Lovell in his red striped Apollo spacesuit saying Goodbye to NASA staff members
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·Probably the best photo of an Omega Speedmaster chronograph taken during an Apollo mission...
Apollo 13 film mag 59/R photo AS13-059-8488
Ex Luna, Scientia ( From the Moon, knowledge )
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Apollo 13 film mag 59/R photo AS13-059-8488
Ex Luna, Scientia ( From the Moon, knowledge )
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·Not from the NASA photo archive, but from my personal collection - flown beta cloth patch (book & FOIS for good measure):
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·30 years ago... Chief of the Astronaut Office and ASTP docking module pilot/astronaut Donald "Deke" Slayton visits his NASA worm spacesuit at the Omega museum in Bienne Switzerland
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·As it's Apollo 13 week, here's commander James Lovell as an actor in the British SF movie " The Man Who Fell to Earth " with David Bowie
James Lovell wore a space-age electronic LED Hamilton Pulsar wristwatch
(Photo: British Lion Films)
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James Lovell wore a space-age electronic LED Hamilton Pulsar wristwatch
(Photo: British Lion Films)
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·Dr Jeffrey Alan Hoffman probably astronaut wearing most number of wristwatches at the same moment... mostly 4 at once (STS-46 - Atlantis) !
(Photo: NASA)
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Edit: yes 4 at once... 😁
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(Photo: NASA)
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Edit: yes 4 at once... 😁
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April 23, 1972, Apollo 16 lunar EVA 3 during which Charlie Duke's Omega Speedmaster suffered a failure as the hesalite plexiglass popped off the chronograph case. This event was described in the official NASA Apollo 16 mission report... which ends with:
The Apollo chronograph is a secondary timing device and is not critical to mission success or crew safety. There are no plans for corrective action.
(photo: NASA)
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·SpeedyTuesday April 28 ... time for some rarely seen photographs from the MoonwatchUniverse collection 😁
Besides Wally Schirra and Leroy Cooper, a third astronaut of the "Mercury Seven" had a personal Omega Speedmaster CK2998-4 chronograph...
June 1963, USAF testpilot Donald Deke Slayton was photographed during NASA jungle survival training at the Albrook Air Force Base with the "New Nine" astronauts, including Armstrong & Young, in the republic of Panama canal zone.
December 1964 Slayton, now senior manager of the astronaut office, photographed with children who had undergone heart surgery. Slayton was grounded for medical reasons (heart rhythm disturbances) in March 1962. What a surprise for these kids, photo was printed in newspapers Tuesday 22 December 1964.
However, Donald Slayton flew to space as Docking Module Pilot of the historic July 1975 ASTP Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission.
Note the bezel was missing since spring of 1963... (Photos: NASA/Chronicle)
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Besides Wally Schirra and Leroy Cooper, a third astronaut of the "Mercury Seven" had a personal Omega Speedmaster CK2998-4 chronograph...
June 1963, USAF testpilot Donald Deke Slayton was photographed during NASA jungle survival training at the Albrook Air Force Base with the "New Nine" astronauts, including Armstrong & Young, in the republic of Panama canal zone.
December 1964 Slayton, now senior manager of the astronaut office, photographed with children who had undergone heart surgery. Slayton was grounded for medical reasons (heart rhythm disturbances) in March 1962. What a surprise for these kids, photo was printed in newspapers Tuesday 22 December 1964.
However, Donald Slayton flew to space as Docking Module Pilot of the historic July 1975 ASTP Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission.
Note the bezel was missing since spring of 1963... (Photos: NASA/Chronicle)
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·The space fellows don’t seem to take good care of their bezels!
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·Upon request, an overview of the Donald Slayton individual NASA portraits...
Wristwatch-wise, one with a Bulova Accutron, one with a Gold Omege Speedmaster chronograph
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Wristwatch-wise, one with a Bulova Accutron, one with a Gold Omege Speedmaster chronograph
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·Such a good list of pics there! Thanks for starting the thread!
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·May 1969, Apollo 10 was the final dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 Moon landing. All three astronauts Eugene A. Cernan (LMP), John W. Young (CMP) and Thomas P. Stafford (Commander) already had flown during Gemini. The CSM was named “ Charlie Brown “ and the Lunar Module “ Snoopy “ after cartoon characters by Charles Schulz. Note Cernan's Speedmaster at his inner wrist on a steel mesh JB Champion bracelet.
The Lunar Module "Snoopy" flown by Stafford and Cernan descend to just 14.4 kilometers above the lunar surface.
Moreover Snoopy’s ascent stage was left leaving lunar orbit and it remains the only once-crewed spacecraft still in outer space without a crew being tracked by astronomical observatories. (Photo: NASA)
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The Lunar Module "Snoopy" flown by Stafford and Cernan descend to just 14.4 kilometers above the lunar surface.
Moreover Snoopy’s ascent stage was left leaving lunar orbit and it remains the only once-crewed spacecraft still in outer space without a crew being tracked by astronomical observatories. (Photo: NASA)
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May 1973... Naval aviator Paul Weitz training for the SL-2 mission, wearing NASA-issued Speedmaster #80 ...
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May 1973... Naval aviator Paul Weitz training for the SL-2 mission, wearing NASA-issued Speedmaster #80 ...
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·I'm afraid the first #SpeedyTuesday of June 2020 will be about " Four on Four "... " 4 on IV "
Four Omega Speedmaster chronographs have been worn during the Gemini IV mission... after 55 years a well-known fact... more soon !
Four Omega Speedmaster chronographs have been worn during the Gemini IV mission... after 55 years a well-known fact... more soon !
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·Note for the Forstner reissue crowd: Horned lugs.
Radial dial Omega Alaska III Project Speedmaster on a horned lugs JB Champion bracelet - detail of Joe Engle's 1982 NASA portrait.
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·June 2020 celebrating 88th anniversary of David Scott (June 6) and 91st birthday of James McDivitt (June 10)...
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·It doesn't always have to be NASA ( alike it doesn't always have to be Omega, especially since I stopped wearing them in July 2019 ) 😁
Great wristwatches appear in photos of other space agencies, be it Russian, Chinese, Japanese or European...
I was asked about photos on the subject of the " 40th anniversary of the selection of the first French spationautes in June 1980 " if I had some photos by the French space agency CNES - Centre national d'études spatiales
Well here is what I have on the spationautes presentation ( screenshot of topline in my Soyuz T-6 folder )
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It looks like back-up spationate, French Air Force pilot Major Patrick Baudry wore an interesting chronograph, which I thought was a Breitling or Bréguet... but it seems more like a Dodane or Auricoste Type 20 pilot chronograph!
Great wristwatches appear in photos of other space agencies, be it Russian, Chinese, Japanese or European...
I was asked about photos on the subject of the " 40th anniversary of the selection of the first French spationautes in June 1980 " if I had some photos by the French space agency CNES - Centre national d'études spatiales
Well here is what I have on the spationautes presentation ( screenshot of topline in my Soyuz T-6 folder )
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It looks like back-up spationate, French Air Force pilot Major Patrick Baudry wore an interesting chronograph, which I thought was a Breitling or Bréguet... but it seems more like a Dodane or Auricoste Type 20 pilot chronograph!
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·I was standing next to Claude Nicollier at a book signing (~20 years ago? mon dieu!) and noticed we were wearing the same Breitling Aerospace titanium/gold. I didn't ask him if his was flown since I didn't want him asking me the same.
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