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Topic: Photo of the week 110 (December 9)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 12-08-2006 02:25 PM
   
 Dressed in an Apollo A5L spacesuit, astronaut Scott Carpenter participates in training for emergency EVA from the Lunar Module to the Command Module in 1967. He is using a mockup of the docked spacecraft in a water tank in Building 5 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. This is the EVA that Rusty Schweickart later performed on Apollo-9. Ed Hengeveld |
art540
Member Posts: 432
From: Orange, California USA
Registered: Sep 2006
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posted 12-08-2006 06:42 PM
Wow. What a treasure you have there, Ed.
History in the making............... |
Moonpaws
Member Posts: 685
From: Lee's summit, MO
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 12-09-2006 09:09 AM
Ed, I know that you made a disk for sale of astronaut and crew portraits. I would love to see one made with the photos in your collection. I personally would pay $29+ to have one. I'm sure others here would do the same. Vince |
Dirk
Member Posts: 933
From: Belgium
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 12-09-2006 09:38 AM
HeeloHow it comes that Carpenter only flew with Mercury, not in the Gemini program, but trained in the Apollo program as we can see on this photo ?
Th photos must have been taken shortly before his retirement as an astronaut. Dirk |
Michael Davis
Member Posts: 528
From: Houston, Texas
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 12-09-2006 10:52 AM
Wow. the first thing I noticed here is just how small the LM accent stage looks here. At first I thought it was scaled down for the test, but I think it's the actual size. It really brings home the cramped quarters to me. It must have been just miserable in there on the long duration lunar stay missions... |
Tom
Member Posts: 1597
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 12-09-2006 10:58 AM
...but not as bad as Gemini on the long(er) duration flights! |
pterodactyl
Member Posts: 21
From:
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 12-09-2006 01:44 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Michael Davis:
Wow. the first thing I noticed here is just how small the LM accent stage looks here. At first I thought it was scaled down for the test, but I think it's the actual size.
If you look at the ratio of the RCS quad nozzles to the overall size of the Ascent Stage it would appear to be a subscale mock-up.[Edited by collectSPACE Admin (December 10, 2006).] |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1047
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 12-10-2006 07:31 PM
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Dressed in an Apollo A5L spacesuit
Apollo A5L???? that is a G4C Gemini suit! look the helmet,the ring neck,the zip on back and the boots. This is the real A5l (and A6L) http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/7366/ap12a1xc6.jpg
[Edited by carmelo (December 10, 2006).] |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1047
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 12-10-2006 07:45 PM
And this is the suit worn by Carpenter in 67,a G4C Gemini suit without parachute harness. [Edited by carmelo (December 10, 2006).] |
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