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Topic: Apollo 1 (backup) crew gag photo NASA ID
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Lightyear69
Member Posts: 95
From: Germany
Registered: Oct 2013
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posted 03-13-2017 12:57 PM
   
I'm looking for the photo ID of this Apollo 1 picture. Can you help me? Thanks. |
Wehaveliftoff
Member Posts: 2343
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Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 03-13-2017 03:12 PM
Is there a book which contains most of these gag type photos? |
Mike Dixon
Member Posts: 1397
From: Kew, Victoria, Australia
Registered: May 2003
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posted 03-13-2017 04:38 PM
There are many many alternate portraits. Different poses, gags, the lot.On edit: I failed to mention that quite a few (most in fact) had no info on the rear and many, the front (by way of stamped numbers) so that presents a challenge in and of itself. I see new ones (got two in fact last month for STS-41D) but they take a lot of tracking down. I have a lot of them and when I think "yep, nearly got them all," deep down, I know I don't. |
Wehaveliftoff
Member Posts: 2343
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Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 03-13-2017 10:20 PM
Through all these contacts perhaps someone knows of the photographer(s) who took those Apollo gags... |
milkit1
Member Posts: 271
From: Springfield Illinois USA
Registered: Sep 2015
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posted 03-14-2017 07:34 AM
The gag crew photos I'm most familiar with are the Gemini 7 and Gemini 8 and Apollo 1 crew and backup crew photos. The only common factors in those three is Ed White in Gemini 7 and Apollo 1 and Dave Scott in Gemini 8 and Apollo 1. Always made me wonder if it was either of their ideas. Also there is a gag photo of Charles Conrad standing by a globe that is pretty funny and he is also in the Gemini 8 photo.I asked Michael Collins and Jim Lovell about them but they did not remember why. Jim was disappointed that he hadn't dressed sillier though.  On edit: Almost forgot, I asked Richard Gordon as well. He said he wasn't for sure but undoubtedly it would have been that guy (pointing to Conrad). I will have to ask Dave Scott at Spacefest this year about it. |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 03-23-2017 06:42 PM
To attempt to answer the original question posted, I don't believe these photos were ever assigned official NASA ID numbers. I could be mistaken, but I don't think I've ever seen one of these gag photos printed with the traditional red serial number.I've always had the impression that these photos were "unofficial" and just circulated among a select few individuals. |
Mike Dixon
Member Posts: 1397
From: Kew, Victoria, Australia
Registered: May 2003
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posted 03-23-2017 06:46 PM
Agree Mark. |
J.L
Member Posts: 674
From: Bloomington, Illinois, USA
Registered: May 2005
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posted 03-23-2017 11:58 PM
I have never seen an ID for any of the gag photos. Just curious what one would would need the ID for?I just had an interesting exchange last week with a TV production company in Australia. They wanted to know if I had a hi-res file of one of the "gag" crew photos. I said I did. Next they wanted to know if it was a NASA image. I said you will never find it in a NASA catalog, but they were taken by a NASA photographer, of NASA astronauts, and on NASA property, so they are NASA images in my book. Next they wanted to know if I knew the photographer. I said yes and have been to his house, but not sure if he is alive now. Then they said their lawyers were requesting a signed affidavit from one astronaut and two members of the surviving family. I told them they need to find a different photo to use. This was all after a NASA rep had told them "I don't think that is one of ours..." |
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