Hidden gems from the NASA photo archive

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MoonwatchUniverse is ready for 2026 :
Just for those curious about NASA astronaut photos showing Omega Speedmaster or flightmaster:
Thus far 28 portraits:
1966: Armstrong, Stafford
1971: Bean, Brand, Cernan, Duke, Engle, Shepard and Young
1972: Mattingly, Young
1974: Cernan, Slayton, Leonov (flightmaster)
1980: Schmitt, Brand, Engle, Dana, ...
most recent:
Mark Kelly (2005 = X33), Fuhrman (2025 =Moonphase) and Jonny Kim (2025 = Seamaster)
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1959, November 4... NASA flight medicine.
US Air Force 2nd Lieutenant Dolores Dee O'Hara became the first staff nurse for the NASA "Mercury 7" astronauts, stationed at the AeroMed Laboratory of Hangar S at Cape Canaveral Florida.
NASA Nurse Dee O'hara assisted in pre & postflight medical checks of the astronauts. In 1963 she was officially assigned as the Office Nurse in Cocoa Beach, Florida but resigned from USAF to become a full NASA nurse to set up the Medicine Flight Clinic at the MSC in Houston Texas.
O'Hara participated in every launch in the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Apollo-Skylab and the ASTP program. In 1981, she assisted during the Columbia space shuttle mission STS-1.
In this photograph, Dee O'Hara was wearing her 1961 Elgin little diamond ladies wrist watch.
(Photo: USAF/NASA) #moonwatchuniverse #NASA
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For those who commented: She doesn't look like the nurse in the movie "The Right Stuff"...
Well the nurse in the movie was a nurse during the 1958-1959 astronaut selection process, so not Dee O'hara. The astronaut selection process took place at the Lovelace clinic in Albuquerque followed by psychological & stress tests at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio.