Hidden gems from the NASA photo archive

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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American journalist & broadcaster Jules Bergman (1929-1987) had been hanging out a long time with the NASA astronauts, so in late 1965 Bergman ordered himself an Omega Speedmaster chronograph which he wore 1966 onwards for the rest of his life !
(Photos: NASA/ABC)
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Apollo 11 landing explained video
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/man-moon-50-years-landed-64250994

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.

Yes, CASIO watches have been worn onboard the Space Shuttle since 1982 !
(photo: NASA)

After his Omega Speedmaster X33, Omega Seamaster, 3 Rolex watches (Submariner, GMT-master and Daytona), yet another wrist watch...
ISS Expedition 72/73 member NASA astronaut Jonathan "Jonny" Kim wearing his sixth different wrist watch onboard the International Space Station... 228 days & counting...
(Photo: NASA)
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Is that six watches on one tour, or multiple tours?

The Soyuz MS-27 mission to the ISS is US Navy seal, flight surgeon Jonathan "Jonny" Kim's first spaceflight and thus far he has been wearing at least 6 different watches!
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Anno 2025, using a wrist watch timer onboard ISS..
US Navy flight surgeon NASA astronaut Jonathan "Jonny" Kim using his personal Omega Seamaster Diver 300M toolwatch to time experiments.
As an ISS Expedition 72/73 astronaut, Jonny Kim already spent 240 days & counting in space and he brought at least seven different watches, among which a Seiko Prospex, 3 Omega (X-33, Semaster and Speedmaster Flight Qualified Mil pilot version) and 3 Rolex, Daytona, GMT-master and Submariner.
(Photo: NASA)
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Tempus Fugit... Space watches photo-of-the-year
MoonwatchUniverse's choice goes for the July 2025 photo showing the Axiom-4 crew members together with the ISS Expedition 72/73 resident crew holding hands, clearly showing their Space Agency issued and personal wrist watches.
Clockwise we can spot a Rolex GMT-master, a Breitling Navitimer chronograph, twice an Omega Speedmaster X-33 and the ActiWatch, the latter a device that measures exposure to light and sleep/awake rythm.
Spacefarers' nations: USA, Hungary, India, Japan and Poland.
(Photo: ESA/ISRO/JAXA/NASA)
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NASA astronaut Edward White explains procedures to the Lovell family during the Gemini VII mission (11 DEC 165)... and the Gemini VII crew post-flight returning to NASA (22 DEC 1965)
Packing our bags with two more photos...
In an age of more AI-images, it's important to use the correct official NASA photo number and date, in this case S65-61657 and 104-KSC-365-182/7
Enough is enough or as the Latin phrase says " Satis est " 🫡
(Photos: NASA) #MoonwatchUniverse
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