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Topic: Photo of the week 93 (August 12, 2006)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 08-11-2006 04:48 PM
   
 Astronauts and cars... a great combination! Here is Gus Grissom in a Corvette, the very image of the right stuff. |
dtemple
Member Posts: 729
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 08-11-2006 06:15 PM
Ed, do you have a photo identification number for this image? |
User997
Member Posts: 59
From:
Registered: Oct 2005
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posted 08-11-2006 10:03 PM
And any idea what year that photo was taken?Great photo of Gus. You don't see a lot of photos of him "in his element" outside of space training and space flight. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 08-12-2006 04:10 AM
Sorry, I don't have any info on this photo. Don't know the ID-number or the year... My guess is sometime after Gemini 3. |
John Charles
Member Posts: 339
From: Houston, Texas, USA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 08-12-2006 09:39 PM
It appears that Gus is driving a 1965 Corvette Stingray. This supports your guess that the photo was taken at about the time of Gemini 3. |
machbusterman
Member Posts: 1778
From: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Registered: May 2004
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posted 08-13-2006 01:22 AM
That is a brilliant photo Ed.... Gus looks truly happy and the photo seems to me to be a candid rather than a pre-planned shot. |
RichieB16
Member Posts: 552
From: Oregon
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 08-13-2006 06:30 PM
Awesome photo Ed, I really like this one. Do you by chance have it in high res? If so, would you be willing to share it. |
spacecraft films
Member Posts: 802
From: Columbus, OH USA
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 08-13-2006 06:58 PM
Any idea what the 249 signifies? |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 08-14-2006 12:01 AM
Mark, I have no idea, but for some reason it looks to me like the car is in a cars-for-sale lot... |
SCE to AUX
Member Posts: 245
From: Anytown USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 08-17-2006 07:43 PM
Any Vette guys out there? It looks like a '63 split window to me, but I'm certainly no expert. |
John Charles
Member Posts: 339
From: Houston, Texas, USA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 08-17-2006 08:56 PM
I am no 'Vette expert, but it looks to me like Gus is driving a 1965 Corvette Stingray. I stopped Googling when I got to the 1965 photo, so I don't know if the same features showed up in later models, but they did not appear in earlier models that I saw photos of. |
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