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perineau
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posted 01-04-2017 04:50 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for perineau   Click Here to Email perineau     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I have seen several commemorative patches remembering Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia; but I regret that Gemini 9 is not included as well. The crew died preparing for their flight (as Apollo 1) and I think all four crews should be honored together. Any thoughts out there?

randy
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posted 01-04-2017 08:09 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for randy   Click Here to Email randy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I agree. The original Gemini 9 crew is one of those "forgotten" crews that needs to be remembered.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 01-04-2017 09:18 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Beyond the consideration that the Apollo 1, STS-51L and STS-107 crews died inside spacecraft, they were also killed as a result of no action of their own. Their fates were sealed by the decisions made by others.

That may be why Elliot See's and Charles Bassett's death, while just as tragic, is considered different.

Jim Behling
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posted 01-04-2017 11:10 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jim Behling   Click Here to Email Jim Behling     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Much like Theodore Freeman, Edward Givens and Clifton Williams.

onesmallstep
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posted 01-04-2017 12:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for onesmallstep   Click Here to Email onesmallstep     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
See and Bassett were commemorated by cSer and patch designer Tim Gagnon (KSCartist) with a patch featuring the reflection of the moon, Earth and a Gemini in an astronaut's visor during an EVA, and the words 'Gemini IX - Prime Crew 1965' and their names.

They are also honored in the Astronaut Memorial 'Space Mirror' at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 01-04-2017 12:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Jim Behling:
Much like Theodore Freeman, Edward Givens and Clifton Williams.
In a way, yes, in a way, no.

Freeman and Givens were not assigned to spaceflights at the time of their death. CC Williams was on Pete Conrad's Apollo 12 mission, but See's and Bassett's deaths were the loss of entire crew. In that way, their crash shares more with the Apollo 1, STS-51L and STS-107 tragedies.

vanerie
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posted 01-04-2017 05:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for vanerie   Click Here to Email vanerie     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Retrorocket Emblems produced a Gemini 9 prime crew commemorative patch in early 2015.

KSCartist
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posted 01-06-2017 04:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for KSCartist   Click Here to Email KSCartist     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I appreciate being credited with the Gemini 9 memorial patch described above, but Liem gets the credit for that one.

I did however produce a 5 inch and 12 inch (shown here) of a memorial to every astronaut and cosmonaut lost on the line of duty in a patch titled: "Final Flight." I include (forgotten) heroes like Bondarenko, See and Bassett, Freeman, Williams, Adams and Lawrence.

My goal was not to judge but to be inclusive.

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