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Topic: First and last shuttle crews reunite for photo
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Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-07-2011 09:19 AM
   
Houston Chronicle photographer Smiley Pool captured the first and last, STS-1 and STS-135, space shuttle crews together. 
Photo: Smiley N. Pool / © 2011 Houston Chronicle The astronauts posed for photos and reminisced in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility, with various bits of shuttle hardware in the background."This picture was important to me," said Crippen, who piloted Columbia in 1981. "I thought it kind of gave us the bookends of the program." ...last week's meeting at Johnson Space Center, coming after Ferguson, pilot Doug Hurley and mission specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim visited President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, marked the official end of the Atlantis crew's whirlwind tour since returning to Earth on July 21. "We're done," Ferguson said. "Everyone goes their separate ways right now. From the crew office standpoint, the shuttle program is over." |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 11-07-2011 09:37 AM
Of course, that's the first and last orbital crew  The first and last shuttle crews would have Haise and Fullerton as well as the STS-135 crew... |
MarylandSpace
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posted 11-07-2011 10:35 AM
That's a really neat photo that many of us hoped would happen. |
psloss
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posted 11-07-2011 11:04 AM
Thanks for pointing out that link, Robert. |
Delta7
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From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 11-07-2011 11:10 AM
Awesome photo! |
Tom
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From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 11-07-2011 01:44 PM
Great photo! |
Max Q
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From: Whyalla South Australia
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 11-07-2011 03:03 PM
Awesome to see a moonwalker still involved in these shots, a hero amongst heroes. |
APG85
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posted 11-07-2011 07:00 PM
The picture I've been waiting for! |
Richard Rogers
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From: Desoto, Tx
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 11-08-2011 07:48 AM
That's a great photo.
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-08-2011 10:23 AM
collectSPACE Photo Gallery First, last space shuttle crews meet for 'bookend' photosThe first and last astronauts to fly on the space shuttle met Nov. 2 in Houston, Texas to pose for a series of historic photographs. John Young and Robert Crippen, who in April 1981 flew on board shuttle Columbia on mission STS-1, joined the STS-135 crew Chris Ferguson, Doug Hurley, Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim at NASA's Johnson Space Center. The six former and current astronauts united at the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility, where both crews had trained prior to their missions in full-scale shuttle mockups. High resolution downloads of all five photographs can be found here: |
MrSpace86
Member Posts: 1618
From: Gardner, KS, USA
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 11-08-2011 12:26 PM
Those people are all legends. Really neat photo(s).All of them are still alive and signing...wouldn't THAT be a photo to have signed |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 11-08-2011 12:33 PM
I was hoping they'd make this happen... Awesome photos.  |
gliderpilotuk
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From: London, UK
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 11-08-2011 01:07 PM
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Originally posted by MrSpace86:
wouldn't THAT be a photo to have signed
Exactly. Maybe an opportunity for the ASF? |
nasamad
Member Posts: 2121
From: Essex, UK
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 11-08-2011 04:07 PM
Nice as the photos are the last one 205619 appears to be a photoshopped combination of 205608 and 205613 with the flag inserted behind them.If they only took four pics then just give us four! (That's not directed at you Robert, that's to NASA.) |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-08-2011 04:34 PM
None of the shots are composites; they were photographed in front of the flag. If you look carefully, you'll see the angle and facial expressions are different. |
NavySpaceFan
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From: Norfolk, VA
Registered: May 2007
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posted 11-08-2011 04:50 PM
Great pictures!!! And what are four of these folks wearing? Navy wings of gold! |
Blackarrow
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From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 11-08-2011 06:00 PM
In a word: WOW! |
Richard Rogers
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From: Desoto, Tx
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 11-08-2011 07:05 PM
A one of a kind crew photo! Very Nice. |
p51
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From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 11-08-2011 10:27 PM
You have to wonder what happens when younger astronauts meet the older ones. How would one react to a request for a signature from a fellow space traveler? I see Bob Crippen apparently broke his jacket out of the Astronaut Hall of Fame for these photos. Here's the same jacket I saw in September:  |
Jay Chladek
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From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 11-09-2011 03:22 AM
It seems fitting that I am reading this right now while wearing my Space Shirts' STS-135 shirt (the one I wore on the day of the launch). I close my eyes and I can still see it like it is yesterday as it lifted off, did its spectacle of bright light and loud noise and finally pierced the clouds.I am also glad Rex Walheim was on the crew. He was the first astronaut I got to really chat one on one with when I first went to KSC for STS-121. To me, he represents almost perfectly what a shuttle-era mission specialist is. Crippen looks like he is loving the moment. As for four "Navy" wings of gold, don't tell Hurley that. The Navy issued his wings, but he is a Marine baby! |
NavySpaceFan
Member Posts: 655
From: Norfolk, VA
Registered: May 2007
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posted 11-09-2011 06:04 AM
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Originally posted by Jay Chladek:
As for four "Navy" wings of gold, don't tell Hurley that. The Navy issued his wings, but he is a Marine baby!
Okay, Naval Wings of Gold then! |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 11-09-2011 09:23 AM
A Navy SEAL is a Navy SEAL even though there are Marines that are SEALS. A Naval Aviator is a Naval Aviator. Even though there are Marines that are Naval Aviators.Those Navy wings of gold were given at Navy flight school, not Marine flight school. He is a Marine wearing Navy wings of gold. |
kr4mula
Member Posts: 642
From: Cinci, OH
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 11-09-2011 01:13 PM
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Originally posted by p51:
You have to wonder what happens when younger astronauts meet the older ones. How would one react to a request for a signature from a fellow space traveler?
When I was at JSC in the late '90s, the newest ASCAN class got a lecture from none other than Neil Armstrong. I heard from one of the attendees that they lined up for handshakes, photos, and autographs afterwards, though I never saw any of the results. |
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