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LM-12
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posted 12-01-2020 08:31 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
These photos show "Star Trek" cast members DeForest Kelley and James Doohan and the show's creator Gene Roddenberry with X-15, M2-F2 and HL-10 aircraft at NASA Dryden in April 1967.

DeForest Kelley, who played chief medical officer Leonard "Bones" McCoy, talks with Bill Dana, NASA X-15 pilot, in front of one of three X-15 rocket planes during a visit to NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, now Armstrong, back in 1967.

James Doohan, who played chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, talks with NASA Pilot Bruce Peterson.

Doohan and Kelley, along with "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry, receive a briefing on NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, now Armstrong, in front of the HL-10.

Kelley and Roddenberry receive a briefing on the X-15 cockpit as they view inside.

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posted 12-01-2020 04:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ManInSpace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Wow!

A really unique set of photos. Thank you.

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posted 12-01-2020 05:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SkyMan1958   Click Here to Email SkyMan1958     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Fun stuff!!!

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posted 12-01-2020 08:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Bruce Peterson (in second photo) was injured in the crash of the M2-F2 less than a month later, on May 10, 1967.

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posted 12-01-2020 09:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for randy   Click Here to Email randy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The beginnings of the Federation?

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posted 12-02-2020 04:17 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ronpur   Click Here to Email Ronpur     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Nice. The third one I have seen before. Not sure where.

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posted 12-03-2020 12:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The photos were taken on April 13, 1967. The last episode of Season 1 of the series originally aired on that same day.

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posted 12-03-2020 08:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for garymilgrom   Click Here to Email garymilgrom     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great photos thank you. Some may not know Doohan was a pilot (among other things) before his acting career. From Wikipedia:
Prior to his acting career, Doohan served in the 14th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. He also served as a pilot. He saw combat in Europe during World War II, including the D-Day invasion of Normandy, in which he was wounded, apparently by friendly fire.

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posted 12-04-2020 01:26 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That is X-15 number 3 behind Dana and Kelley in the first photo.

The next X-15 flight after these photos were taken was Flight 178 on April 26, 1967 with Dana in X-15 number 3.

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posted 12-04-2020 02:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here is a 1966 photo of the same hangar at the Dryden Flight Research Center.
Hangar 4802 at the NASA Flight Research Center in 1966. Aircraft on left include (left to right): HL-10, M2-F2, M2-F1, F-4A, F5D-1, F-104 (barely visible), and C-47. Aircraft on the right side (left to right) include: X-15-1 (56-6670), X-15-3 (56-6672), and X-15-2 (56-6671).

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posted 12-04-2020 04:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ManInSpace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The golden years of frontline aerospace vehicle development!

Thank you for this and all the great photographs/information that you have posted.

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posted 12-12-2020 10:34 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
A framed picture of this image is on the hangar wall behind the X-15 in the first photo.

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posted 12-14-2020 03:04 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Spacepsycho   Click Here to Email Spacepsycho     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great photos of an amazing time in aviation history. Think back to all the people who were inspired by Roddenbery and Star Trek, who went on to do impossible things.

I have a contractor model of the HL-10 signed by all five pilots, with Petersen adding "1st Flight". I also purchased the ejection seat and 02 tank from one of the Dryden guys who took them home after the crash investigation was completed. Those lifting bodies were so cool, who thought they'd provide the research necessary to land the shuttles.

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posted 01-23-2021 12:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Forrest Petersen (USN) flew five X-15 flights in the early 1960s. He later went on to serve as commander of the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) in 1971.

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posted 01-23-2021 03:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for David C     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Just to avoid any confusion here. Bruce Peterson, with an "O", and Forrest Petersen, with an "E" are not the same person.

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Does anyone remember the story of the Enterprise (Star Trek, not shuttle) being used in a SIM in Apollo and can point me towards it? Can’t remember where I seen it.

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posted 01-24-2021 03:45 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Buel   Click Here to Email Buel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Got it. Dutch von Ehrenfried's oral history interview:
We'd develop our own display screens as well. Then we'd test those in simulations and so forth. So that was what the guidance officer's role was. We would have little models, too, for the spacecraft, to figure out what the orientation was in certain parts of the orbit and therefore what should the astronauts be seeing. I remember sitting in the Command Service Module simulator at the Cape with Wally Schirra and Donn [F.] Eisele, and some guys in the sim [simulation] room put in the model of the [Starship] Enterprise [from Star Trek television show]. So we were sitting there. What the guys were seeing was rendezvousing with the Enterprise instead of with the Lunar Module. The heat of the lamps in the simulator started to melt the model. Anyway, I got a kick out of that one.

Wright: That's a new effort, wasn't it? To try to rendezvous with a melting object?

von Ehrenfried: It would be almost like a warp drive kind of thing. Laser gun had melted the Enterprise. But that's the kind of training that we would get. We were really getting the best training in the world.

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posted 06-22-2021 10:46 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Not seen in this photo of 'Star Trek' cast members at the shuttle Enterprise rollout in 1976, is the Apollo 14 command module which was on display a few feet away and out-of-frame to the left.

The Apollo 14 CM is seen in this photo:

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posted 06-29-2021 07:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ronpur   Click Here to Email Ronpur     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Ronpur:
The third one I have seen before. Not sure where.
I found the book with the photo in my old copy of "The Making of Star Trek" by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry. The simple caption just says "Gene Roddenberry, Jimmy Doohan and DeForest Kelly at NASA." Published 1968.

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posted 01-11-2022 03:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This "The Space Review" article has another Dryden photo taken at the HL-10 aircraft. The photo includes both "Star Trek" cast and production crew members.

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posted 01-14-2022 02:05 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I wonder if any of them tripped over that tow bar.

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