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heng44
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posted 08-26-2006 03:40 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

On March 17, 1970, Apollo-13 astronaut Ken Mattingly was presented with a cake for his 34th birthday as he left the Apollo Mission Simulator at the Kennedy Space Center. The next couple of weeks would be filled with drama for him and the rest of the world...

Note: this photo is from the collection of J.L. Pickering, who is currently preparing to offer for sale compilation CDs of his vast archive of scans, containing hundreds of unique views of the early space missions not available anywhere on the internet. Watch this space for more details.

Ed Hengeveld

mark plas
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posted 08-26-2006 03:54 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for mark plas   Click Here to Email mark plas     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great picture Ed. It strikes me how many astronauts were born in March.

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