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Topic: Photo of the week 145 (August 11)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 08-11-2007 07:33 AM
   
 The crewmembers for Apollo-10 talk to the press at the Kennedy Space Center about their upcoming mission in 1969. As this was in the days before PowerPoint presentations, they had to improvise to explain their lunar maneuvers. Ed Hengeveld |
hlbjr
Member Posts: 475
From: Delray Beach Florida USA
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 08-11-2007 11:03 AM
The photo doesn't surprise me that the silver-tounged Cernan is doing the explaining while the less verbal Stafford and borderline stoic Young are seated! I'm sure it was just Cernan's part of the presentation but it still is funny to me. By the way, I would much rather have this original, more intimate drawing by the astronauts themselves than another boring & sterile powerpoint presentation. Just my $.02.Harvey Brown |
ea757grrl
Member Posts: 729
From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 08-12-2007 09:29 PM
When A&E re-ran the NBC coverage of the Apollo 11 launch in 1969, included in the coverage, and shown after 11 made it into orbit, was a prerecorded commentary from Stafford and Cernan in which they described the Apollo 10 launch. Stafford is speaking in his drawled Oklahoman, and Cernan is already displaying the style he'd show in his later work for ABC. It's a fairly priceless piece of tape, especially for the medium-blue blazers they were wearing with the Apollo 10 emblem on them, almost like they were part of a sports anchor team on a local TV station.  jodie |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 08-16-2007 08:47 AM
I believe Cernan is writing on a Brittle Oneway Analog Recording Device (a BOARD computer) using a Ceramic Handheld Angle Locating marKer (CHALK user interface) to enter data.
Edited by garymilgrom |
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