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Topic: Photo of the week 88 (July 8)
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heng44 Member Posts: 3387 From: Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 07-08-2006 03:40 AM
Apollo-15 astronauts Dave Scott and Jim Irwin walk to their car following a training exercise in the KSC mission simulator, three days before launch in July 1971. Ed Hengeveld |
mensax Member Posts: 861 From: Virginia Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 07-08-2006 06:50 AM
Ah yes, the days when Fords looked like Fords, and Chevies looked like Chevies. Now they all look like jellybeans. Noah |
star61 Member Posts: 294 From: Bristol UK Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 07-08-2006 07:26 AM
There is something about pictures like this that i find......... spine tingling! It's the thought that, here are a couple of guys just strolling to there cars in a carpark, normal blokes, normal situation. But in their mind, they know they are going to soon be walking on the Moon! There is something about the unreal contrast of where they are against where they will be, or have been. Any more pics like this of astros in "every day context" would be much appreciated. Thanks Ed Phil |
MCroft04 Member Posts: 1634 From: Smithfield, Me, USA Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 07-08-2006 08:10 AM
I assume that the blue car that Dave is approaching was his. The 15 crew went patriotic with their cars; Dave had blue, Irwin red, and Wordon white (from Jim Irwin's "To Rule the Night" page 217). |
FutureAstronaut Member Posts: 372 From: Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 07-08-2006 10:43 AM
quote: Originally posted by MCroft04: I assume that the blue car that Dave is approaching was his. The 15 crew went patriotic with their cars; Dave had blue, Irwin red, and Wordon white (from Jim Irwin's "To Rule the Night" page 217).
I think Dave's was a little darker. [This message has been edited by FutureAstronaut (edited July 08, 2006).] |
Tom Member Posts: 1597 From: New York Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 07-08-2006 11:09 AM
Ed...that photo brings back a lot of memories. I was 15 years old, at KSC for the Apollo 15 launch when this (or a very similar) photo appeared in FLORIDA TODAY, just days before lift-off. Thanks! |
mjanovec Member Posts: 3811 From: Midwest, USA Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 07-08-2006 01:11 PM
quote: Originally posted by FutureAstronaut: I think Dave's was a little darker.
But Dave is wearing the same yellow shirt in each pic, at least! [This message has been edited by mjanovec (edited July 08, 2006).] |
spaceman48263 Member Posts: 75 From: Michigan Registered: Aug 2004
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posted 07-08-2006 08:21 PM
I think the car Dave is walking by in the first picture is a 1971 Impala. Not much of an astronauts car like the corvette in the bottom picture. |
Philip Member Posts: 5952 From: Brussels, Belgium Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 07-14-2006 03:29 PM
Indeed, it's probably a Chevy Impala ! |
albatron@aol.com New Member Posts: From: Registered:
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posted 07-14-2006 11:28 PM
Paul Weitz told me once about a takeoff crew pose they did - I THINK it wqas a Skylab one, but it may have been STS 6.As a take off on the old Corvette crew pics, they towed in from a junkyard the worst cars imaginable anbd posed with them. If anyone has a copy of that Id love a copy. |