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Topic:	Apollo 1 crew wearing the mission patch

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by LM-12: [B]Retro Space Images has this nice [URL=https://www.facebook.com/RetroSpaceImages/photos/a.134464163243078/2162898037066337/?type=3&theater]colour photo of Gus Grissom[/URL] wearing the Apollo 1 mission patch on his left shoulder.[/B][/QUOTE]
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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER>T O P I C     R E V I E W</CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>LM-12</TD><TD>The Apollo 1 crew can be seen wearing their mission patch in photo <A HREF="https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a410/ap1-KSC-67PC-16.jpg" TARGET=_blank>KSC-67PC-16</A> dated January 17, 1967. I didn't realize the mission patch had also been worn at the left shoulder, as Roger Chaffee is doing in photo <A HREF="https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a410/ap1-KSC-366C-126-16.jpg" TARGET=_blank>KSC-366C-126-16</A>. That photo is dated October 18, 1966. </TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Mike Dixon</TD><TD>Let alone the reverse shoulder for the flag.</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>LM-12</TD><TD>The mission patch moved from the left shoulder, but the flag stayed at the right shoulder. Are there photos of all three crewmen wearing the mission patch at the left shoulder?</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Tom</TD><TD>Here's one of Grissom:<center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/tom/apollo1patch_grissom01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/tom/apollo1patch_grissom01.jpg" width="400" height="264" border="0"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>LM-12</TD><TD>There is some footage of Grissom, White and Chaffee wearing their Apollo 1 mission patch at the left shoulder in "<A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z1a1R7RUfM" TARGET=_blank>The Mighty Saturns: Saturn 1 and 1B</A>" from Spacecraft Films.</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>LM-12</TD><TD>Photo <A HREF="https://archive.org/download/S68-26203/S68-26203.jpg" TARGET=_blank>S68-26203</A> shows Ed White in the altitude chamber wearing his mission patch at the left shoulder.</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>LM-12</TD><TD>Found more <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJLHCWiN-cM" TARGET=_blank>AS-204 footage</A> at the altitude chamber from SpaceInHD.<center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DJLHCWiN-cM?rel=0&showinfo=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

LM-12

Where would the crew have suited up on the planned launch date of Feb 21? Would the suiting-up room on the third floor of the MSOB have been ready by that time?

LM-12

Retro Space Images has this nice colour photo of Gus Grissom wearing the Apollo 1 mission patch on his left shoulder.

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