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Topic: Photo of the week 75c (April 8, 2006)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-08-2006 03:09 AM
   
Twenty-five years ago this month I was at the Kennedy Space Center to cover the launch of STS-1. It was an experience I will never forget. Two days after launch I also saw the landing at the Dryden Flight Research Center. To commemorate the flight I will post a daily photo, giving a day-by-day account of some of the things I saw during that exciting week. Astronaut John Young, commander for STS-1, sits in the cockpit of his T-38 jet on the tarmac at Patrick Air Force Base after arriving from Houston on the afternoon of April 8, 1981, two days before Columbia's scheduled liftoff. George Abbey, Director of Flight Operations at the Johnson Space Center, flew backseat with Young, while Bob Crippen flew a separate T-38. Ed Hengeveld |
Moltke
Member Posts: 63
From: United Kingdom
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted 04-08-2006 03:26 AM
Superlative photo Ed. |
machbusterman
Member Posts: 1778
From: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Registered: May 2004
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posted 04-08-2006 05:07 PM
Thanks for the great images you put up here each week. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 04-09-2006 10:21 AM
quote:
Originally posted by heng44:
George Abbey, Director of Flight Operations at the Johnson Space Center, flew backseat with Young, while Bob Crippen flew a separate T-38.
Ah, yes, the mysterious George Abbey, whom nobody has seemed to photograph! | |
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