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·60 years ago... NASA started to receive wrist watch chronographs to be tested...
It's January 5 , so remembering NASA astronaut JOhn Watts Young, who by serendipity played a key-role in NASA's Speedmaster history:
Selected in 1962 Astronaut Group 2, Naval aviator John Young flew onboard Gemini III, Gemini X, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, space shuttle "Columbia" STS-1 & STS-9. Totalling almost 35 days in space.
Young also holds the record of T-38 flight time: 9200 hours. Hangar 276 at Ellington field - Houston, housing NASA's fleet of T-38 jets, was renamed “John Young hangar” in October 2021.
Wrist-watch wise we notice the first Omega Speedmaster chronograph on Young's wrist at NASA during a Gemini III weight-&-balance check dated March 3, 1965. Hugely interesting as NASA had just tested chronographs for spaceflight and Gemini III astronauts Grissom & Young each wore an Accutron Astronaut GMT pilot watch and Omega Speedmaster chronograph during their March 23, 1965 spaceflight mission.
A full month before NASA received the first batch of Omega Speedmaster 105.003 (April 23, 1965) and two months before NASA officially announced the Omega Speedmaster as flight-qualified for manned spaceflight (June 1, 1965)!
(Photos: NASA)
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It's January 5 , so remembering NASA astronaut JOhn Watts Young, who by serendipity played a key-role in NASA's Speedmaster history:
Selected in 1962 Astronaut Group 2, Naval aviator John Young flew onboard Gemini III, Gemini X, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, space shuttle "Columbia" STS-1 & STS-9. Totalling almost 35 days in space.
Young also holds the record of T-38 flight time: 9200 hours. Hangar 276 at Ellington field - Houston, housing NASA's fleet of T-38 jets, was renamed “John Young hangar” in October 2021.
Wrist-watch wise we notice the first Omega Speedmaster chronograph on Young's wrist at NASA during a Gemini III weight-&-balance check dated March 3, 1965. Hugely interesting as NASA had just tested chronographs for spaceflight and Gemini III astronauts Grissom & Young each wore an Accutron Astronaut GMT pilot watch and Omega Speedmaster chronograph during their March 23, 1965 spaceflight mission.
A full month before NASA received the first batch of Omega Speedmaster 105.003 (April 23, 1965) and two months before NASA officially announced the Omega Speedmaster as flight-qualified for manned spaceflight (June 1, 1965)!
(Photos: NASA)
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