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Topic: Did any Group 3 astronauts meet JFK?
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stsmithva
Member Posts: 1933
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 04-29-2015 07:15 PM
   
The Group 3 astronauts were selected in October 1963. President Kennedy was assassinated in November. Has anyone ever heard of any Group 3 astronauts who met JFK during that month? He did visit Cape Canaveral during that time. |
Mike Isbell
Member Posts: 551
From: Silver Spring, Maryland USA
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 04-30-2015 10:24 AM
The third group of astronauts reported to NASA in January 1964 to begin training as astronauts. |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1047
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 04-30-2015 11:23 AM
I'm not neither sure if the astronauts of Group 2 have meet President Kennedy.
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Lou Chinal
Member Posts: 1306
From: Staten Island, NY
Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 05-21-2015 11:52 AM
I asked a similar question awhile back. Neil Armstrong said he never met John Kennedy. |
Tom
Member Posts: 1597
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 05-21-2015 06:33 PM
So, that makes Al Shepard the only moonwalker (and crew member of a lunar mission) to ever meet President Kennedy. |
Tony Guidry
Member Posts: 36
From: Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Registered: Jun 2009
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posted 05-22-2015 11:00 PM
About six years ago, we attended the dedication of the Apollo memorial at the Space Walk of Fame in Titusville, FL. Skylab astronaut Jerry Carr and Apollo astronaut Al Worden were present for the event. After the dedication, a group of us attendees were standing next to a bust of JFK, having an informal conversation with Al Worden. Someone in our group asked Worden if he had ever met JFK, to which he replied that he had not, since he was still in Test Pilot School at the time JFK was in office. Another person asked Worden if he had ever met any succeeding presidents after JFK and he replied that, yes, he had met a majority of them. A third person in the group asked Worden "What were they like?" to which Worden simply shrugged his shoulders and, very nonchalantly, replied "They were just people!"  |
Lou Chinal
Member Posts: 1306
From: Staten Island, NY
Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 05-24-2015 09:23 PM
Yes Tom. As near as I can figure out, Alan Shepard was the only moonwalker to meet JFK. |
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