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LM-12 | Who were the suit technicians that suited-up the Apollo astronauts on launch day? Some of the names are familiar. I have not seen a complete list anywhere. I think Ron Woods was the suit tech for Aldrin on Apollo 11. Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. is being assisted by a spacesuit technician during suiting operations in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building prior to the astronauts' departure to Launch Pad 39A. |
GTBuzz | That's Ronnie Woods of ILC in the photo. More info here: Oral History Transcript: Ronald C. Woods. |
ejectr | This photo is of my cousin Joe Rebokus. He worked for David Clark Company in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is in all the videos loading Ed White into the spacecraft the day of the Apollo 1 fire. |
LM-12 | I'll make a list of the suit techs on launch day and add to it as we go: [additional contributors in brackets] - Apollo 1 (Jan 27)
Grissom ... White ... Joe Rebokus [ejectr] Chaffee ... - Apollo 7
Schirra ... Clyde Teague Eisele ... Cunningham ... - Apollo 8
Borman ... Dick Sandridge [heng44] Lovell ... Ron Woods Anders ... Joe Schmitt [heng44] - Apollo 9
McDivitt ... Clyde Teague Scott ... John Bolan Schweickart ... - Apollo 10
Stafford ... Al Rochford Young ... Jim McNair Cernan ... - Apollo 11
Armstrong ... Troy Stewart Collins ... Joe Schmitt Aldrin ... Ron Woods - Apollo 12
Conrad ... Dick Sandridge Gordon ... Bill Prior Bean ... John Bolan - Apollo 13
Lovell ... Clyde Teague [heng44] Swigert ... Haise ... Troy Stewart - Apollo 14
Shepard ... Al Rochford Roosa ... Mitchell ... - Apollo 15
Scott ... Joe Schmitt Worden ... Ron Woods Irwin ... Frank Hernandez [heng44] - Apollo 16
Young ... Clyde Teague Mattingly ... Frank Hernandez [heng44] Duke ... Troy Stewart - Apollo 17
Cernan ... Al Rochford [heng44] Evans ... Troy Stewart [heng44] Schmitt ... - Skylab 2
Conrad ... Joe Schmitt Kerwin ... Frank Hernandez Weitz ... - Skylab 3
Bean ... Garriott ... Ron Woods Lousma ... Al Rochford - Skylab 4
Carr ... Troy Stewart [heng44] Gibson ... Walt Salyer Pogue ... - ASTP
Stafford ... Frank Hernandez Brand ... Al Rochford [heng44] Slayton ... Joe Schmitt [heng44]
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LM-12 | Al Rochford and Alan Shepard on launch day. |
heng44 | Some additions: - Grissom ...
White ... Joe Rebokus Chaffee ... - Apollo 7
Schirra ... Clyde Teague Eisele ... Cunningham ... - Apollo 8
Borman ... Dick Sandridge Lovell ... Ron Woods Anders ... Joe Schmitt - Apollo 9
McDivitt ... Clyde Teague Scott ... John Bolan Schweickart ... - Apollo 10
Stafford ... Young ... Cernan ... - Apollo 11
Armstrong ... Troy Stewart Collins ... Joe Schmitt Aldrin ... Ron Woods - Apollo 12
Conrad ... Gordon ... Bean ... - Apollo 13
Lovell ... Clyde Teague Swigert ... Haise ... Troy Stewart - Apollo 14
Shepard ... Al Rochford Roosa ... Mitchell ... - Apollo 15
Scott ... Worden ... Ron Woods Irwin ... Frank Hernandez - Apollo 16
Young ... Mattingly ... Frank Hernandez Duke ... Troy Stewart - Apollo 17
Cernan ... Al Rochford Evans ... Troy Stewart Schmitt ... - Skylab 2
Conrad ... Joe Schmitt Kerwn ... Frank Hernandez Weitz ... - Skylab 3
Bean ... Garriott ... Lousma ... Al Rochford - Skylab 4
Carr ... Troy Stewart Gibson ... Pogue ... - ASTP
Stafford ... Frank Hernandez Brand ... Al Rochford Slayton ... Joe Schmitt
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LM-12 | Is this Ron Woods assisting Richard Gordon on launch day? Update: he is identified as Bill Prior in Moonshots and Snapshots on page 105. |
thisismills | I have a sewn suit beta cloth patch from Troy Michael Stewart in my collection, here are a few photos of him with Armstrong I found during my research.
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LM-12 | It looks like Clyde Teague is suiting up John Young in some Apollo 16 film footage, so I will add that to the list. |
LM-12 | Two suit techs can be seen in this Apollo 10 crew walkout photo on launch day. One looks like Al Rochford. I don't know who the other one is. In an Apollo 10 CDDT suit-up photo, Rochford is seen with Tom Stafford. The other suit tech is seen with John Young. |
LM-12 | John Bolan suited up Al Bean on launch day for Apollo 12. |
LM-12 | Who is assisting Jack Swigert in this Apollo 13 suit-up photo? The man on the left looks like the person who suited up Frank Borman for Apollo 8. |
LM-12 | Here is a photo of Clyde Teague with the Apollo 16 crew. |
Captain Apollo | Who was the female technician involved in the Apollo 11 suit up? She's seen working some equipment in films of the event. EDIT - it was Judy Sullivan. |
LM-12 | This photo shows the ASTP crew suiting up for an altitude chamber test. The three suit techs (who also suited them up on launch day) can be easily identified in the same shot:
- Frank Hernandez with Stafford
- Al Rochford with Brand
- Joe Schmitt with Slayton
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heng44 | Dick Sandridge helped Borman suit up on Apollo 8. I added him to my listing above. |
LM-12 | He (Sandridge) looks like the suit tech for Conrad on Apollo 12. |
LM-12 | The suit tech walking behind Al Rochford in the Apollo 10 crew walkout photo posted earlier is Jim McNair. He looks like the suit tech who assisted John Young. |
LM-12 | The suit techs who entered the astronaut transfer van and went to the pad: - Apollo 7: Clyde Teague and ?
- Apollo 8: Joe Schmitt and Dick Sandridge
- Apollo 9: Clyde Teague and John Bolan
- Apollo 10: Al Rochford and Jim McNair
- Apollo 11: Joe Schmitt and Ron Woods
- Apollo 12: Dick Sandridge and John Bolan
- Apollo 13: Clyde Teague and Troy Stewart
- Apollo 14: Al Rochford and ?
- Apollo 15: Joe Schmitt and Frank Hernandez
- Apollo 16: Clyde Teague and Troy Stewart
- Apollo 17: Al Rochford and ?
- Skylab 2: Joe Schmitt and Frank Hernandez
- Skylab 3: Al Rochford and ?
- Skylab 4: Troy Stewart and ?
- ASTP: Al Rochford and Frank Hernandez
List is incomplete. Any additions or corrections? |
LM-12 | In the above list, the unidentified suit tech for Apollo 17 is also the unidentified suit tech for Skylab 3. It is the same person. |
LM-12 | I have seen the two Skylab suit techs who went to the pad referred to as "SSSA" and "SSSB" in one countdown document. closeout crew at the pad: - SPAD ... pad leader?
- BSPT ... backup crew CMP?
- SGQC ... quality control?
- SCMT ... command module tech?
- SSSA ... suit tech?
- SSSB ... suit tech?
Does anyone know what those acronyms mean? |
LM-12 | The astronaut transfer van was Vehicle No. 3 at the pad. Vehicle No. 1 and Vehicle No. 2 were for the other four members of the white room closeout crew. After closeout, the suit techs left the pad area in Vehicle No. 1. |
Paul78zephyr | quote: Originally posted by Captain Apollo: ...it was Judy Sullivan.
Thank you for that info. I wondered who she was also. She is 80 years old now. Here is an interview with her in 2019 during the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11: |
Philip | Looking for a portrait photo of Clyde Teague. |