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Topic: Photo of the week 787 (November 23, 2019)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 11-23-2019 03:37 AM
   
 Astronauts John Bull (left) and Jim Irwin are suiting up for LTA-8 fit checks in vacuum chamber B of the Space Environment Simulation Laboratory (SESL) at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, February 1968. LTA-8 was a spaceworthiness test for the Lunar Module. |
Buel
Member Posts: 649
From: UK
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 11-23-2019 06:38 AM
Is John Bull still with us? Further to this, how many of the astronauts who didn’t ‘make it’ to the final selection are still with us? |
cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 11-23-2019 07:12 AM
No he isn't. Died 2008. |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 11-23-2019 08:43 AM
I think that had it not been for the pulmonary disease, there was a very good chance that John Bull would have walked on the moon, as LMP on either Apollo 15 or 16. He was highly rated by Slayton who said he hated to lose him. And it seems like he was one of the main LM guys from Group 5 along with Haise, Mitchell and Irwin. |
perineau
Member Posts: 218
From: FRANCE
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 11-23-2019 08:44 AM
Thanks, as always, for your tireless reminders of a time when America was great and had a vision and the will to reach for the heavens. |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 11-23-2019 08:51 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Buel:
Further to this, how many of the astronauts who didn’t ‘make it’ to the final selection are still with us?
Former NASA Astronauts who never flew in space and are still alive: - Phil Chapman (Group 6)
- Don Holmquest (Group 6)
- Gus Loria (Group 16)
- Neil Woodward (Group 17)
- Rob Kulin (Group 22)
- Yvonne Cagle (Group 16; currently a Management Astronaut)
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Buel
Member Posts: 649
From: UK
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 11-23-2019 02:04 PM
Ah, no Apollo era ones then. |
ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2031
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 11-23-2019 05:30 PM
The story of John Bull's life, with some wonderful input from his family, is in my recent book, "Shattered Dreams." It also relates the test that Ed's photo illustrates, and in fact Ed supplied the photos I used to illustrate John Bull's chapter. Thanks again, Ed. |
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