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Topic: Apollo 14 'Beep Beep' patch inflight images
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Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4495
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 04-26-2020 06:36 AM
  
I have seen one or two grainy still images from in flight tv and 16mm movie that show Beep Beep patches with Apollo 14's Stu Roosa, and Al Shepard's EVA backpack respectively. But I've never seen any period quality stills of any of the crew with the infamous back up patch in flight or post.Ed Mitchell and Gene Cernan in recent times posed for provenance pictures but I was wondering whether any members had contemporaneous stills? My "Go To" still expert Ed Hengeveld has drawn a blank so I am under no illusions that this might be a tall order but here's hoping. |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4495
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 01-24-2021 08:02 AM
I've just watched an excellent video entitled Apollo 14 Remastered. For just a second or so, there is a bright clear still of an Apollo 14 crew patch stuck to the bulkhead adjacent to the navigational sextant. I'm guessing the image was captured by a 16 movie camera.But good clear stills of the Beep Beep patch are few and far between. I’ve only seen images captured from onboard tv broadcasts or a pretty poor movie still on the lunar surface. Has any member ever come across a good clear still of the Beep Beep patch inflight: a still good enough to support reproduction as a 10x8 print? |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3534
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 01-24-2021 08:58 AM
While not in flight, Rick, I do have an official NASA red-serial no. Kodak photo in color of the official backup patch. Would that help or do you need a good image of it while inside Kitty Hawk? |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4495
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 01-24-2021 09:25 AM
Ken, thank you for the offer but I am looking for an image of a Beep Beep onboard Kitty Hawk. In flight ideally but if there were images of the patches being stowed pre-flight, or recovered post flight, that would work. |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4495
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 10-30-2022 02:06 PM
As mentioned above, I am aware of stills taken from 16mm footage of EVA 1 on Apollo 14 that capture one of the Beep Beep patches attached to Al Shepard’s PLSS with Velcro. But I’ve never seen any other images of a Beep Beep patch taken in flight.There is at least one image depicting Stu Roosa in the lower equipment bay with a standard mission patch affixed to the bulkhead. But given the extensive image collections of a number of collectSPACE members, and the plethora of Beep Beep patches secreted about both spacecraft, I am hoping somebody could turn up another in flight Beep Beep image: anybody? |
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