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Topic: Including Gemini 9 crew on memorial patches
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perineau
Member Posts: 218
From: FRANCE
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 01-04-2017 04:50 AM
   
I have seen several commemorative patches remembering Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia; but I regret that Gemini 9 is not included as well. The crew died preparing for their flight (as Apollo 1) and I think all four crews should be honored together. Any thoughts out there? |
randy
Member Posts: 2176
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 01-04-2017 08:09 AM
I agree. The original Gemini 9 crew is one of those "forgotten" crews that needs to be remembered. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42984
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-04-2017 09:18 AM
Beyond the consideration that the Apollo 1, STS-51L and STS-107 crews died inside spacecraft, they were also killed as a result of no action of their own. Their fates were sealed by the decisions made by others.That may be why Elliot See's and Charles Bassett's death, while just as tragic, is considered different. |
Jim Behling
Member Posts: 1463
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 01-04-2017 11:10 AM
Much like Theodore Freeman, Edward Givens and Clifton Williams. |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1310
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 01-04-2017 12:19 PM
See and Bassett were commemorated by cSer and patch designer Tim Gagnon (KSCartist) with a patch featuring the reflection of the moon, Earth and a Gemini in an astronaut's visor during an EVA, and the words 'Gemini IX - Prime Crew 1965' and their names. They are also honored in the Astronaut Memorial 'Space Mirror' at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42984
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-04-2017 12:47 PM
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Originally posted by Jim Behling:
Much like Theodore Freeman, Edward Givens and Clifton Williams.
In a way, yes, in a way, no. Freeman and Givens were not assigned to spaceflights at the time of their death. CC Williams was on Pete Conrad's Apollo 12 mission, but See's and Bassett's deaths were the loss of entire crew. In that way, their crash shares more with the Apollo 1, STS-51L and STS-107 tragedies. |
vanerie
Member Posts: 56
From: Outer Banks, North Carolina
Registered: Sep 2016
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posted 01-04-2017 05:56 PM
Retrorocket Emblems produced a Gemini 9 prime crew commemorative patch in early 2015. |
KSCartist
Member Posts: 2896
From: Titusville, FL USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 01-06-2017 04:47 PM
I appreciate being credited with the Gemini 9 memorial patch described above, but Liem gets the credit for that one.I did however produce a 5 inch and 12 inch (shown here) of a memorial to every astronaut and cosmonaut lost on the line of duty in a patch titled: "Final Flight." I include (forgotten) heroes like Bondarenko, See and Bassett, Freeman, Williams, Adams and Lawrence. My goal was not to judge but to be inclusive.  |
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