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Topic: Apollo crews' post-flight world tours
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Machodoc
Member Posts: 209
From: Bryn Mawr PA
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 03-16-2009 09:49 PM
   
In my research at the National Archives I've come across some fascinating stuff about the world tours of the Apollo 11 and 12 crews. I know that Apollo 17 did a tour, and obviously Apollo 13 didn't, but I can't seem to find much at first glance on Apollo 14 through 16. If anyone can help out with that specific question, I would be really grateful, and if anyone has any "color" to add on any of the tours as it relates to the political/foreign policy angle I would also be a very happy camper. |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 2094
From: Fairfax, VA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 03-16-2009 10:01 PM
Charlie Duke of Apollo 16 had some details about this during a chat at the hotel bar at the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation show in November. He was telling about a hunting trip in Africa after that mission, and I asked if this was during a NASA-sponsored world tour. I don't want to quote him directly/exactly, but he said that there wasn't a world tour for Apollo 16. |
NAAmodel#240
Member Posts: 359
From: Boston, Mass.
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 03-17-2009 01:54 PM
There was a world tour for Apollo 13. William J. O'Donnell, a NASA HQ PAO (and my father-in-law) was on the trip. |
flight_plan
Member Posts: 58
From: Lincs
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted 04-09-2009 08:14 AM
From Pocantico Hills School: When they finally reached land, President Nixon lent the astronauts his jet so they could take a world tour. In 34 days, they got to see 24 countries and 27 cities. |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1746
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 04-09-2009 08:27 AM
When I lived in Europe as a kid, I remember the Apollo 14 astronauts being interviewed on a French TV program not too long after their mission. |
spaced out
Member Posts: 3208
From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 04-09-2009 08:50 AM
The Apollo 15 crew made a 10 day goodwill tour of Poland and Yugoslavia some time after the mission. I don't know any details. |
music_space
Member Posts: 1193
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 04-12-2009 06:07 PM
Here is a lead for your research.In the collection of NASA oral history interviews transcripts titled as "Before This Decade is Out", please read this chapter. During the Apollo missions, [secretary at the Office of Public Affairs Geneva B. Barnes] assisted in protocol activities at the Kennedy Space Center for four of the flights, including Apollo 11. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3717
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-13-2009 02:10 AM
Some snippets of information: the Apollo 14 crew was in Paris in June 1971; the Apollo 15 crew was in London in September 1971; don't know if you can call that a world tour, though. |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3292
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 04-13-2009 10:11 PM
Going on fuzzy memory, Apollo 15 did Paris, Bonn, London, Poland, Yugoslavia and Belgium. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3717
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-14-2009 12:27 AM
The yearly NASA reports 'Aeronautics and Astronautics' usually gave good information on these kind of activities. |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3292
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 04-16-2009 12:16 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Machodoc:
if anyone has any "color" to add on any of the tours... I would also be a very happy camper.
There is always the Queen's "Gotcha" on Neil Armstrong, as related in Paul Haney's foreword to our book "Into That Silent Sea." |
Philip
Member Posts: 6246
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 07-27-2022 12:02 PM
Apollo 15 European Goodwill tour took place between 6 and 21 November 1971. They visited: - UK: Cambridge and London
- France: Paris
- Germany: Zugspitze Ski-school
- Italy: Milano
Between 22 - 27 January 1972 the Apollo 15 crew visited Yugoslavia. |
Axman
Member Posts: 347
From: Derbyshire UK
Registered: Mar 2023
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posted 02-05-2024 05:32 AM
Is anyone aware of any resources out there that lists post-flight crew visits to cities and international destinations for Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions?Ideally I would like to see the information in chronological order for each crew... but anything is better than the nothing I have at the moment. Editor's note: Threads merged. |
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