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Topic: Spaceflight-related and astronauts' tattoos
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Alan
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posted 06-21-2002 04:44 PM
   
Are there astronauts who have a tattoo? |
James Brown
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From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 06-21-2002 09:13 PM
I don't know about any astronauts, but I have a tattoo of the Mercury 7 logo on my right upper arm. I love it. |
ejectr
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From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 06-22-2002 06:44 AM
Not really what you call a tattoo, but John Glenn noted in his book that he, at least, had them tattoo the spots where they attached the biological sensors so that they could get the same spot all the time to corrolate the data. I think I read somewhere that a couple of the others did this, too. |
Philip
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From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 06-22-2002 10:26 AM
I believe I saw this photo of Kay Hire with a (temporary?) tattoo on her left-shoulder... |
pokey
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From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 06-22-2002 11:52 AM
Then there's the STS-98 crew's Bad Boy safety poster. They each have barbed wire with dripping blood tatoos on their upper arm. Cockrell had his flight suit on at the STS-111 homecoming yesterday, so was unable to see if it was a permanent tatoo or not. Will ask Tom Jones today if he decided to make his permanent. Tee hee. |
WAWalsh
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From: Cortlandt Manor, NY
Registered: May 2000
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posted 06-24-2002 10:20 AM
If memory serves correctly, Pete Conrad had a Princeton Tiger tattoo. |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-09-2010 09:44 AM
NPR: A History of Space Science, In Ink Science Friday listener Josh Scott is on a mission: He wants to get a pictorial history of space exploration tattooed on his arm. What missions or satellites should be included? Apollo? Hubble? Call in with your suggestions and help Scott get sleeved in space science style. |
music_space
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From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 01-27-2015 02:41 PM
I stumbled upon this. Anyone knows whose this is? |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-27-2015 02:53 PM
Apparently it belongs to reddit member Longh0rse. |
NJSPACEFAN
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From: Ocala, FL USA
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 01-27-2015 03:00 PM
I think I remember seeing a USMC tattoo on Jack Lousma's arm at the ASF show; but I could be wrong. |
p51
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From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 01-27-2015 04:18 PM
I heard rumors from some friends who work at JSC who were there in the heyday of the STS era that a few astronauts tattooed their names and/or SSNs on various body parts after the Challenger disaster. You can figure out the reasons on your own.I've always wondered if it was true or not, but I've never had the nerve to ask any shuttle-era astronauts I've talked with about it. |
Neil DC
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From: Middletown, NJ, USA
Registered: May 2010
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posted 01-27-2015 10:04 PM
I believe Luca Parmitano has a small one on his chest and in a tennis playing shot of Vladimir Kovalyonok he had a plant/leaves like design on his left forearm. |
moorouge
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From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 01-28-2015 12:24 AM
quote:
Originally posted by WAWalsh:
If memory serves correctly, Pete Conrad had a Princeton Tiger tattoo.
Contempory reports said that this was an anchor and stars. Is this the same? |
Jim Behling
Member Posts: 1463
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 01-28-2015 06:44 AM
I know somebody who has an HS-376 tattooed on his arm. |
music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 01-29-2015 05:33 PM
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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
Apparently it belongs to reddit member Longh0rse.
Yes. I love a comment posted on his Reddit page: "This is clearly a hoax. The tattoo is sharpie. I can tell because shadows." |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-06-2016 08:57 AM
And then there's this... Four sittings and a year later, it's finally done.  The work was done at Electric Zombie Tattoo and Piercing in Athens, Pennsylvania. |
DeepSea
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posted 01-06-2016 09:50 AM
quote:
Originally posted by moorouge:
Contemporary reports said that this was an anchor and stars. Is this the same?
Slate: My Step-Dad, the Astronaut When they married, I was a characteristically dogmatic, liberal freshman at Wesleyan, and Pete was — well, he had a Navy anchor tattoo on his arm, and a photo of him shaking hands with Nixon on the wall of his office. In years gone by, the company I work for had a cartoon mascot based on the name of the in-house diving helmet we used. This thing made its way onto t-shirts, manuals, logbooks, decals, shipping containers; everything. One hand even went so far as to get it tattooed on his thigh. Imagine his face when he was fired a month later for something unrelated... awkward timing. |
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