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Topic: Photo of the week 3 (June 2, 2005)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 06-02-2005 02:56 PM
   
Here is a shot I took myself for a change, not a NASA-photo. The date is April 8, 1981. STS-1 pilots John Young and Bob Crippen have just landed at Patrick AFB near KSC and are talking to the press, two days before Columbia's historic first launch attempt. At left George Abbey is climbing from Young's T-38 and at right, wearing quarantine mask, is KSC security chief Charles Buckley. Ed Hengeveld |
Rob Joyner
Member Posts: 1308
From: GA, USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 06-02-2005 03:29 PM
What a shot! Thanks Ed! |
OV-105
Member Posts: 816
From: Ridgecrest, CA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 06-02-2005 07:38 PM
Back when Crip still had hair and dark at that too! |
East-Frisian
Member Posts: 586
From: Germany
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 07-08-2011 02:56 PM
Ed, that was your first shuttle-pic in Space History Photo of the Week, and today the last shuttle launched. I am happy to live during the shuttle-time and now I am a little bit sad. What will follow? |
dabolton
Member Posts: 419
From: Seneca, IL, US
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 07-08-2011 03:57 PM
So George Abbey rode in T-38's? Didn't know that. When did they start landing at the Shuttle Landing Facility before missions? |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 07-09-2011 01:24 PM
quote:
Originally posted by dabolton:
When did they start landing at the Shuttle Landing Facility before missions?
I believe that started with STS-6. |
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