The National Air & Space Museum has updated their online Speedmaster collection. http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/search/?q=speedmaster The online collection has added an additional 25+ NASA flown watches that previously had not been photographed and documented. The new images include dial, movement, case back, and case profile images. Here is a small sampling of the new images added... Borman - Apollo 8 Schirra - Gemini 6 Schirra - Gemini 6 Armstrong - Apollo 11 Young - Gemini 10
Jeez I appreciate all the "Space Scratches" as much as the next man but I would have thought a tube of Polywatch wouldn't have gone amiss in the 1960's astronauts tool kit
Thanks for sharing that! I'll bookmark it for a read later. Interesting to see a replaced movement in Schirras straightlug.
Humm. Hard to tell for sure but it appears Wally Schirra's Speedmaster 105.003-64 has those tall pushers that I've seen on a few older Speedies and thought them incorrect. Not any more.
How in the hell did they scratch them up so much?! I mean, I didn't expect them to be minty or anything, but man those things are beat up. And having said that, I'll take one of each, please.
I think it's really interesting to note all of the 321 cal's that were still used in missions that took place in the early 1970's. Like Ed Gibson's that went to the Skylab in 1972 but appears to be a 145.012. http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A19771189000 Also of interest - a lot of CB's. NASA must have placed an order right when those were being produced in '66.
http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/search/?q=speedmaster Wow that's cool, my Speedy start's with 2400XXXX to....same like Armstrong's watch.