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Topic: NASA's 1959 portraits of the Mercury astronauts
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JoKepler
Member Posts: 515
From: Houston, Texas
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 03-12-2012 01:24 PM
   
I recently discovered that there are astronaut portraits of the Mercury 7 astronauts from 1959. They are designated as L-59-XXXX. Check Chris Spain's Astronaut Portraits website and you will see one of Alan Shepard. I was fortunate to have acquired a NASA numbered Scott Carpenter 1959 portrait but I have never seen any of the other five. Anyone out there have any 1959 portraits of Grissom, Glenn, Cooper, Schirra, or Slayton? |
Paul78zephyr
Member Posts: 675
From: Hudson, MA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 03-14-2012 05:15 PM
Man, I cant get over that 1981 picture of Deke Slayton with 'long' hair! |
music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 03-15-2012 08:09 AM
Yeah, Deke has had the same "hair evolution" that Hank Hartsfield had!  |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 03-15-2012 10:46 AM
I have Carpenter, Glenn, Grissom and Shepard. Mail me if you want them. |
Paul78zephyr
Member Posts: 675
From: Hudson, MA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 03-15-2012 02:44 PM
quote:
Originally posted by music_space:
Yeah, Deke has had the same "hair evolution" that Hank Hartsfield had!
I guess a lot of these hardboiled guys let their hair down (out) in the 70s/80s/90s. Except for Kranz... and Musgrave... |
fredtrav
Member Posts: 1673
From: Birmingham AL
Registered: Aug 2010
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posted 03-15-2012 04:29 PM
In looking at Chris's website, I noticed a couple of Group 2, the "Gemini" 9 astronauts. I was wondering if anyone had a copy of either of the 1962 pictures showing just the nine. |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 03-15-2012 05:41 PM
What a great website! Thanks for calling my attention to it. |
Skylon
Member Posts: 274
From:
Registered: Sep 2010
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posted 03-15-2012 07:51 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Paul78zephyr:
Except for Kranz...
Well, Kranz tried... a little. |
Paul23
Member Posts: 836
From: South East, UK
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 03-16-2012 02:40 AM
Kranz's hair seems to have really upset Harrison Schmitt in that photo! |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 03-19-2012 09:10 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Paul78zephyr:
Man, I cant get over that 1981 picture of Deke Slayton with 'long' hair!
LOL! Yeah, I'd seen that photo before but had forgotten about it until now...I guess for Deke's generation that's what passed for "letting your hair down" in the late 70s-early 80s. I also get a kick out of looking at crew portraits from the same era and how it seems like every male astronaut from the TFNG class into the mid-80s rocked a moustache...then I remember that the Hollywood archetypes of American maledom then were Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck. Poor Pinky Nelson...I'm not sure he could have grown one if he'd wanted to. |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 03-19-2012 11:55 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Paul23:
Kranz's hair seems to have really upset Harrison Schmitt in that photo!
Men wearing suede sportcoats and bolo ties should probably reserve judgement on others' personal aesthetic choices. Just sayin'.  |
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