I didn't go back through the thread to see if it had already been posted. Deke with a gold Speedy.

 

Some nice photos from Apollo 13 training. Sadly training that was never put in practice. The Plutonium from the ASLEP battery is at the bottom of the ocean now (survived re-entry and is supposed to be contained for 800 years).
I wonder if the yellow marker on the watch strap means it is a training band?

Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell carries the ALSEP packages during training at the Cape. Fred Haise is in the background at the left, apparently walking out from the training building

Jim Lovell (left) aligns the high-gain antenna while Fred Haise works at the ALSEP Bay

Fred Haise extracts the fuel element for the SNAP-26 RTG from its cask mounted on the side of the LM

 

28 February 1966, in a crash of a T-38 jet (NASA 901), both Gemini IX astronauts Charles Bassett and Elliot See were killed.
Here's a July 1962 photo showing Elliot See during medical checks in the NASA Group 2 astronaut selection.
Can You help identifying his cream dial wristwatch ?
It certainly looks like it has no numerals, just little triangular hour markers ... perhaps Enicar
(Photo: NASA) #MoonwatchUniverse
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Tragic incident/ lucky more people were not killed. Tough to spot much to ID the watch....

 

Alan Shepard first American in space - a photo from the Mercury or Gemini programme. One of the best who did well to recover from several medical challenges including Menieres disease and went onto the Moon - not sure what watch he is wearing.

Also Wernher von Braun, I think at the Apollo 11 launch - hopefully just showing the rockets direction :0)

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Long time no posts... as we have a book on the subject of spaceflown wristwatches in the works... Title & contents have been chosen...
more soon...

 

Oh that's sounds very interesting! when can the book be expected?

 

Great pictures.what as always amazed me is the way that history identifies the moon landing itself as human life’s greatest achievement.but to me getting them back to earth safely trumps the landing itself.these guys had balls,total trust in experts on the brink of known (or not known for certain) technologies.
As commander of the lunar lander Armstrong should have stayed on board and Aldrin decend first,but due to design of the door Aldrins exit was obstructed,so Armstrong took the first step.so I understand!
But I’m sure Buzz has got over it now.my 5 year old grandson loves all space related toys and stories and it’s the other Buzz of Pixar creation that led him to that path.True heroes all 3 of them .

 

From my collection: AST-3-171 (17 July 1975) --- The hands of cosmonaut Valerly N. Kubasov are seen as the ASTP engineer adds his name to the signature on the Soviet side of the official joint certificate marking an historical moment during the rendezvous day of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. The left hand of astronaut Donald K. Slayton, NASA's docking module pilot, is seen at left. The certificate had earlier been signed by astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, American crew commander; Slayton and cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov, Soviet crew commander, and it awaits the signature of astronaut Vance D. Brand, NASA's command module pilot who remained in the CM while the others signed in the Soviet Orbital Module of the Soyuz.

 

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Meanwhile read : https://omegaforums.net/threads/new-reveals-about-the-nasa-space-program-watch-choice.42644/

 

It's an add-on monthly calendar as described by Fratello here: https://www.fratellowatches.com/speedy-tuesday-timely-wrist-calendar/ There were more brands than Timely, the ones I used to pick up as handouts at trade exhibitions were oriented at 90 degrees to Timely.

 

A vertical view of the Kennedy Space Center and the Florida Atlantic coast area is seen in this Skylab 4 Earth Resources Experiments Package S190-B (five-inch earth terrain camera) infrared photography taken from the Skylab space station in Earth orbit. Note also the Omega measurement equipment.

 

Yes indeed, there're still lots of rarely seen NASA photographs showing the Omega Speedmaster chronograph at the wrists of astronauts, so MoonwatchUniverse looks back to Gemini IV mission of June 1965...
On June 1 1965, the Gemini IV crew got their final medical checkup and that same day, after 4 months of rigorously testing 3 watch brands, NASA’s Gemini & Flight support procurement office adopted the Omega Speedmaster as its official flight-qualified time piece, which became known as the “Moonwatch” in July 1969.
Superb b&W photo of Gemini IV command pilot James McDivitt after splash-down onboard USS Wasp... note that Speedmaster 105.003-63
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June 18, 1981 exactly 40 years ago...
NASA veteran astronaut John Watts Young, on his way from the US to the Paris Air Show, visited a children's hospital in London... handing out STS-1 mission logo patches. Great times as Omega used the same logo in advertizing their Speedmaster chronographs
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A champion picture :0) - Great Ormand Street Hospital. Funny they pioneered risky business a few years later which shared safety data between hospitals, key industries and NASA - “It is amazing. In the end, whether it is space aeronautics, race car driving or the operating room, it is the same,” they told Orthopedics Today. “You are trying to minimize risk at the interface between human talent and technology.”

 

Another, very special watch to add to the "space-flown" list: a Longines one-button chronograph owned by Amelia Earhart, who once wore it on a solo trans-Atlantic flight. It was carried to the ISS by Expedition 24 astronaut Shannon Walker.


Image Credit: NASA


The watch being transferred to Astronaut Walker before her flight to the ISS aboard a Soyuz spacecraft.

Image Credit: NASA

The Expedition 24 crew, with a couple of Speedmaster X-33s thrown in for good measure.

Image Credit: NASA

You can read about it here:
https://roundupreads.jsc.nasa.gov/jscfeatures/articles/000000875.html

 

Coming up on MoonwatchUniverse... watches worn during 1972-1975 ASTP training & visits... Omega, Blancpain, Rolex and more !
https://moonwatchuniverse.tumblr.com/archive

 

July 2021... 50 years Apollo 15
The Apollo 15 astronauts were the first to receive an Omega Speedmaster with 60 minutes bezel, which they still wore post-mission. Still makes us wonder why Omega didn't standardize the Speedmaster with such a practical bezel (as they did on the 1972 Alaska II Speedmaster chronograph).
In January 2019, MoonwatchUniverse talked with Alfred Worden on the subject who enjoyed a couple of NASA-issued Speedmaster chronographs for almost 20 years (his words). During the mission the crew wore regular Speedmasters as those were prepared for the flight.
This 1970 photo shows astronauts Robert Parker, David Scott and James Irwin wearing Omega Speedmaster on steel mesh bracelet while checking out the battery-powered Lunar Roving Vehicle.
(Photo: NASA)
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Happy 85th birthday to Apollo 9 Lunar Module Pilot Russell "Rusty" Schweickart
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A couple from the family Album. What is the model plane watch?
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