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··In Art We TrustBumping great thread
under a sleeve... of a spacesuit
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SpeedyPhill
·Lots of examples here:
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·Just a reminder that You can join the SWFG for far more information... ( Space Watches Facebook Group ) 🙄
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·60 years ago... Michael Collins first to wear an Omega Speedmaster under the sleeve of a spacesuit
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1966, July 18-21, during the 2 days 22 hours long Gemini X mission, USAF Capt Michael Collins performed two EVAs to retrieve experiments from the Gemini spacecraft and the Agena Target Vehicle in Low Earth Orbit.
Michael Collins got the nickname "Magellan" as he had trained extensively to use the handheld sextant to perform some celestial navigation exercises. Unfortunately he lost his 70mm Hasselblad camera so there're no photos of his umbilical EVA.
He had chosen to wear the NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster 105.003-63 underneath the Gemini pressure suit, the first NASA astronaut to do so.
US Navy LCdr John Young, who was the very first to wear a NASA-issued Speedmaster (be it a NASA tests "survivor" chronograph in 1965), made his second spaceflight and it was his wife Barbara who had drawn the mission logo.
(Photos: NASA)
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1966, July 18-21, during the 2 days 22 hours long Gemini X mission, USAF Capt Michael Collins performed two EVAs to retrieve experiments from the Gemini spacecraft and the Agena Target Vehicle in Low Earth Orbit.
Michael Collins got the nickname "Magellan" as he had trained extensively to use the handheld sextant to perform some celestial navigation exercises. Unfortunately he lost his 70mm Hasselblad camera so there're no photos of his umbilical EVA.
He had chosen to wear the NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster 105.003-63 underneath the Gemini pressure suit, the first NASA astronaut to do so.
US Navy LCdr John Young, who was the very first to wear a NASA-issued Speedmaster (be it a NASA tests "survivor" chronograph in 1965), made his second spaceflight and it was his wife Barbara who had drawn the mission logo.
(Photos: NASA)
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