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Topic: Back-up astronaut crews official portraits
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Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1587
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 06-06-2008 08:04 AM
   
Did backup crews take official photos? I ask this because sometimes for some crews there are photos and they are unavailable for others. |
Tom
Member Posts: 1597
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 06-06-2008 03:00 PM
For the Gemini flight crews, I believe the missions that didn't have an official photo with the back-up crew were:Gemini 5, 6, 9 (w/ Lovell & Aldrin as BU), & 10. For Apollo, I'm pretty sure that only Apollo 1, and 8 depicted the prime and back-up crews in an official NASA photo. I've also seen a photo of the Apollo 14 back-up crew with Cernan, Evans and Engle. Hope that helps. |
Mike Dixon
Member Posts: 1397
From: Kew, Victoria, Australia
Registered: May 2003
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posted 06-06-2008 07:09 PM
There's also a backup crew portrait for (if I remember correctly) SL4. Schweickhart, Musgrave but the name of the third member escapes me. |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1587
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 06-06-2008 11:53 PM
I would have loved to see a photo of the Apollo 10 backup crew of Cooper, Eisele and Mitchell. |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-07-2008 12:21 AM
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Originally posted by Fra Mauro:
I would have loved to see a photo of the Apollo 10 backup crew of Cooper, Eisele and Mitchell.
There is a nice informal shot of the trio. |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1587
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 06-07-2008 12:39 AM
wow, thanks. I wonder if they thought that they would fly as a team one day |
MSS
Member Posts: 633
From: Poland
Registered: May 2003
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posted 06-07-2008 03:13 AM
Hello,I collect all Russian version of the ISS crew portrait and I know that fact so video-photo departament made all combination of the crew members and all individial portraits...but of course the photographed person decides which photo is officially release! For instance: there isn't the sokol verion of individual portrait of Oleg Kotov (100th Soviet/Russian cosmonaut) in photo gallery at HSF at JSC, but there is only one I have seen from more which was made during photo session on March 03, 2007 ! Here are all such crew portraits at these ONE | TWO pages  Best regards, ------------------
Maciej,
Astronauts, Cosmonauts & their flights |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 06-07-2008 02:54 PM
That's confirmed Maciej, I have a whole collection of Soyuz back-up crews ;-)
Best one is the crewphoto with Lance Bass who was on the list for Soyuz TMA-001 mission, I remember that one as Belgium's 2nd astronaut flew that mission back in 2002
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kking
Member Posts: 106
From: Topmost, KY
Registered: Nov 2002
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posted 06-07-2008 06:54 PM
There is couple backup pictures on Kip Teagues Apollo archive of Apollo 8 in front of the Saturn V Armstrong, Aldrin, Haise. There is also a couple of Apollo 14 Cernan, Evans, and Engle.Kyle |
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