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Topic: FS: Astronaut-owned photos from 1965 training
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stsmithva
Member Posts: 1933
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 02-10-2014 03:15 PM
   
In July of 1965, astronauts Anders, Bassett, Bean, Cernan, Chaffee, Cunningham, Eisele, Schweikart, Scott, and Williams went to Iceland to study volcanic geology with practically no vegetation cover. The active volcanic features showed what the moon's surface had been like in the distant past, while older features provided an approximation of the lunar landscape which some of the astronauts would need to walk on and study.(A 1967 trip was made by Anders, Armstrong, Brand, Carr, Duke, Engle, Evans, Garriot, Gibson, Haise, Kerwin, Lind, Lousma, Mattingly, McCandless, Michel, Mitchell, Pogue, Roosa, Schmitt, Swigert, Weitz, and Worden - that's a total of nine of the 12 men who walked on the moon.) Here is a page of photos showing the astronauts at work in Iceland. A couple of years ago I obtained Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham's materials from this training. There was a small textbook, a guest list for a reception thrown for the astronauts, on the back of which Cunningham had drawn for someone a description of an Apollo mission:  |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 1933
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 02-10-2014 03:16 PM
...Cunningham's large certificate given to visitors to Iceland (and signed by him on the lower left):  ... and more relevant to this post, eight large (about 10"x10") aerial photos of volcanic features, as those on the moon would be visible to orbiting astronauts. One of the photos had some notes by Cunninghman on the back:  I don't think breaking up this collection of eight photos will be doing a disservice to history, so I am offering seven of them for sale. (I'm keeping the one with notes on back.) They are printed on thick paper and are a matte finish, not glossy. They are in fine condition - no folds, scratches, etc. Each of them has some numbers and words of explanation/location that had been on the original negative printed on them. They are $29 each, which will include shipping. Each will come with a page of background information (such as above), with a couple of photos.  If you would like a specific one, please just tell me "top middle" etc. in your e-mail. The seventh one is comparable to these - it just didn't fit in the photo. (Incidentally, Moonpans has a page signed by all ten astronauts from the 1965 trip, nicely framed with photos from the training. Seems like a reasonable price for the signers and the provenance.) But back to the photos I'm offering - vintage items almost a half-century old, used by an astronaut as he prepared to explore another world. Please let me know if you are interested. - Steve |
JBoe
Member Posts: 960
From: Churchton, MD
Registered: Oct 2012
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posted 02-10-2014 03:55 PM
Thanks for sharing; it's great to see what others have in their collection. Separately, is there a Blue Nose certificate along with the Icelandic Domain certificate? Just curious as the Icelandic Domain reminds me of my time at Keflavik. |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 1933
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 02-10-2014 04:19 PM
No, no Blue Nose certificate. Are those for those who have crossed the Arctic Circle? Doesn't that come within literally a stone's throw of northern Iceland, but not quite into it?Incidentally, I once accidentally spent the night in Iceland. Ah, to be young again... to be young and stupid enough on my first summer vacation as a teacher to miss an Icelandair flight from Heathrow to BWI, and therefore have to take their only other flight that night, which got me as far as Keflavik for an eerily bright midnight bus ride into Reykjavik, where I spent the night and strolled around the next morning, almost missing the shuttle bus back to the airport - it backed up after the passengers in the back saw me running after it shrieking "NO NO NO NO", so after I flopped into a seat, heaving for breath and covered with sweat, there was a moment of stunned silence until one of the Russian tourists in the back quietly imitated my cries ("no no no no") leading to howls of laughter, which was OK because when I got to the airport my cluelessness was so obvious that the Icelandair staff felt sorry for me and not only let me use one of their personal cell phones to call home (leading to my mother making the baffling comment "No one in our family goes to Iceland") but also upgraded me to "Saga Class", so I ate two portions of fine lamb stew while sitting in a chaise lounge looking down at the glaciers of Greenland, a memory I clung to when the flight landed not at Baltimore but New York City, and before I could board another plane home the security folks noticed that my itinerary had included time in pharmaceutical-friendly Amsterdam and were suspicious because I seemed really out of it, until I convinced them of the truth: that it was just my nature. |
JBoe
Member Posts: 960
From: Churchton, MD
Registered: Oct 2012
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posted 02-10-2014 06:17 PM
Oh wow, it sounds like you had a great time! I got my Blue Nose aboard VP-46's P-3 on a flight north towards Grimsey, boy that was an experience. You bring up another lively city, Amsterdam. A few of us Sailors were approved for a Good Deal Flight into Valkenburg Naval Air Base over Thanksgiving in 2000. |
datkatz
Member Posts: 176
From: New York, NY
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 02-11-2014 12:17 AM
I spent a pleasant few hours in Iceland, too. In 1976 my thesis adviser invited me and two other of his doctoral students to spend a sabbatical year with him in Utrecht, The Netherlands. In those days the only cheap flights to Europe were on Icelandic: JFK to Luxembourg, with a stop at Keflavik. DC-9s for both legs. The start of an incredible year. | |
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