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Topic: John Glenn CBS footage and zero-g training
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music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 02-11-2009 07:40 PM
   
From CBS archives, an interview of Glenn, purportedly on April 12th, 1961.Near the end of the excerpt, you see three people training in zero-g. Anybody know who they are? More CBS space-related archives here. |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 02-11-2009 09:58 PM
One looked kind of like Al Shepard. |
webhamster
Member Posts: 106
From: Ottawa, Canada
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted 02-11-2009 11:22 PM
Yeah, I'd go with Shepard and Glenn. You can't miss Shepard's smile and while it's hard to tell, Glenn's interview seems to indicate he was the other guy in the video clip. It would work out as the prime/backup for the first Mercury flight would probably be doing stuff like that in April 1961. The guys in the dark suits are probably the KC-135 (was it even a KC-135 at that time?) crew. |
ea757grrl
Member Posts: 732
From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 02-12-2009 04:33 AM
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Originally posted by webhamster:
The guys in the dark suits are probably the KC-135 (was it even a KC-135 at that time?) crew.
According to Robert S. Hopkins' "Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: More Than Just a Tanker" (Aerofax), the use of the KC-135 as a zero-g trainer began in January 1960 with KC-135A 55-3129. Before that (or perhaps concurrently, too?) a Convair C-131 was used to fly parabolas. I believe the Spacecraft Films Project Mercury DVD set has some pretty good footage of the Convair. (I'm on dial-up at home, so I can't watch the footage and tell you what they're aboard in the clip you linked....) jodie |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 02-13-2009 10:22 AM
One of the men is definitely Shepard. He is seen pumping his arm towards the end of the footage. |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1758
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 01-25-2010 07:08 AM
I think the guy Shepard smacks on the helmet after he does the body spins is Schirra. |
minipci
Member Posts: 373
From: London, UK
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 01-25-2010 07:48 AM
The exterior shot of the airplane is definitely a view of a C-131, not a KC-135. |
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