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heng44 | Joe Gagliano, an Air Force major on assignment to the Manned Spacecraft Center's Flight Crew Support Division, is suiting up for a test of LM test article LTA-8 in the vacuum chamber at MSC in Houston on May 31, 1968. |
Rick Mulheirn | Nice suit detail! |
Buel | Just looking at the fashion of the clothes in that photo really brings it home how extraordinary it is that these people were planning on flying to the Moon (and back) in that era. To quote Sy Liebergot: "Never forget Apollo, it’ll never happen again." |
Jonnyed | Regarding the comment on fashion — love the short sleeve turtleneck. That too may never happen again! (What a special time Apollo was... so glad to have been alive for it.) |
moorouge | I wonder who the arm and leg on the far left belonged to? |
Michael Davis | The other suited figure is likely Glennon Kingsley. He was a Grumman pilot working with Gagliano for the LTA-8 tests. |
Philip | Nice to see an Omega Speedmaster in use during this test... was this version of the suit also intended for MOL project? |
heng44 | Here are Kingsley (left) and Gagliano together in Photo of the Week 275. Joe Gagliano was a veteran from MSC’s Flight Crew Support Division, who had also been involved in the CSM-008 vacuum chamber tests in 1966. Kingsley was one of a group of Grumman consulting pilots, who performed astronaut duties for tests where astronauts were unavailable. |
Jonnyed | It would be fun to still have those historic green recliners in a "man cave" somewhere. The question is: are they real leather or naugahyde? [grin] |
Wehaveliftoff | The "designer" of the WSS pictured must have grown up on a farm with a lot of cows. |
Philip | Those helmets! Is this hardware in the National Air and Space Museum collection? |
dsenechal | quote: Originally posted by Wehaveliftoff: The "designer" of the WSS pictured must have grown up on a farm with a lot of cows.
I get it. |