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Topic: Photo of the week 108 (November 25, 2006)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 11-24-2006 09:03 AM
   
 Apollo-17 astronauts Gene Cernan (yellow jacket) and Jack Schmitt are seen during their final geologic field exercise on 2-3 November 1972 at Sunset Crater National Monument and the Cinder Lake Crater Field just northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona. They are about to enter a canvas simulation of the Lunar Module ascent stage, to practice describing their surrounding as seen from the same height above the surface as in a real LM. The snow-covered San Francisco Peaks are prominent in the background. Ed Hengeveld |
Larry McGlynn
Member Posts: 1255
From: Boston, MA
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 11-24-2006 09:30 AM
Love Cernan's pants. I seem to remember something about stripes and checks. The orange flight jacket just adds a finishing touch. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 11-24-2006 09:58 AM
Jack Schmitt made some tongue-in-cheek comments about a similar photo when he visited The Netherlands a few years ago. He said he suspected Cernan's taste for clothes had something to do with him being a Navy pilot... |
MCroft04
Member Posts: 1634
From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 11-24-2006 12:21 PM
This looks like the Lunar Module ascent stage mock up described in the book by Donald Beattie "Taking Science to the Moon". Can you confirm? |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 11-25-2006 03:22 PM
I can't 100% confirm that, but it seems likely. There were similar mockups during geologic training for other missions. I believe I saw the Apollo 16 backups using one on Mark Gray's DVD set. |
ea757grrl
Member Posts: 729
From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 11-25-2006 04:49 PM
Cernan's pants remind me of that cartoon where the character was wearing a jacket in the same pattern as the wallpaper, and as he walked, the pattern on his jacket moved to match the wallpaper....  |
trajan
Member Posts: 109
From: Chester, Cheshire, UK
Registered: May 2004
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posted 11-25-2006 06:46 PM
And is it just me, or is Gene on stilts? |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 11-25-2006 06:55 PM
...and the long hair over the ear non Navy regulation haircut. |
dss65
Member Posts: 1156
From: Sandpoint, ID, USA
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted 11-26-2006 12:40 PM
Navy regulations, nothing! That wouldn't have passed my public high school's dress code! (I know -- I ran afoul of it more than once.) |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 11-27-2006 11:35 PM
Consider this a rare instance in which a geologist is the most smartly-dressed person in a photo.  |
AstronautBrian
Member Posts: 287
From: Louisiana
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 11-27-2006 11:39 PM
Although Schmitt's pants are much more tolerable than Cernan's, bright white pants today would not be a high point of fashion, either.Man sometimes I am glad I missed the 70's and too young to care about the 80's. |
thump
Member Posts: 575
From: washington dc usa
Registered: May 2004
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posted 11-28-2006 01:38 PM
With the knit stocking caps, they look like they could be two of the four Monkees... |
divemaster
Member Posts: 1376
From: ridgefield, ct
Registered: May 2002
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posted 11-28-2006 01:42 PM
I didn't realize that the LM had a back door!Cernan is seen wearing those same pants while driving the 1G rover in a slide that Schmitt uses during one of his lectures. He mentions his fashion sense. |
Paul23
Member Posts: 836
From: South East, UK
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 06-23-2009 06:17 AM
I think Cernan demonstrates the very dictionairy definition of getting dressed in the dark! |
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