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Topic: Photo of the week 123 (March 10)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 03-10-2007 04:39 AM
   
 Dick Truly is celebrating his 44th birthday at the pre-launch breakfast on the morning of the STS-2 launch, November 12, 1981. Sitting next to him is Joe Engle, commander of the flight. Their launch aboard Columbia later that morning presented Truly with the biggest birthday candles he ever saw, as he said later. Ed Hengeveld |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 03-10-2007 05:00 AM
Hank Hartsfield in the foreground? |
polheiney
Member Posts: 93
From: Hagerstown, MD, US
Registered: Oct 2006
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posted 03-10-2007 05:40 AM
Is that shuttle made out of cake?Pol |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 03-10-2007 06:21 AM
Hank Hartsfield: yes, he was backup pilot. Cake: no, I believe it is a plastic blow-up Shuttle...Ed |
lunarrv15
Member Posts: 1355
From: Cincinnati, Ohio, Hamilton
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 03-10-2007 01:04 PM
"look at you...you are a solid rocket booster having that party hat on your head" Joe says to Dick |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 03-10-2007 01:27 PM
At what point did the breakfasts go from steak and eggs to cake and water? Mike Mullane says in his book there is no way he'd want to eat steak and eggs before a launch, but if you look at the M-G-A pre launch photos, they all seem to be happily munching away on their steak and eggs!And with regards to the cakes, I've never seen a photo of a shuttle astronaut eating their pre-launch cake. Anyone else seen one? |
cddfspace
Member Posts: 609
From: Morris County, NJ, USA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 03-10-2007 03:52 PM
As an astronaut I guess you can have your cake and eat it too!
(couldn't resist).
CDDFSPACE |
KSCartist
Member Posts: 2896
From: Titusville, FL USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 03-12-2007 07:03 AM
It's my understanding that the astronauts don't carve into their cake until the mission is completed.
They must have to freeze the thing for those 2-3 week missions.Tim |
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