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Topic: Photo of the week 167 (January 12, 2008)
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heng44 Member Posts: 3387 From: Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 01-12-2008 07:41 AM
Chief astronaut Deke Slayton is briefing the new group 3 astronauts after their selection in October 1963. Wally Schirra and Neil Armstrong are also present, as they will play a role in the training of group 3. On the blackboard behind them are details about the branch heads of the Astronaut Office and their secretaries: Grissom for Gemini, "Shepherd" [sic] for Apollo and Schirra for Operations & Training. Among the listeners we can see Chaffee, Freeman, Scott, Gordon, Cunningham (smoking a pipe!), Williams, Anders, Schweickart and Cernan. Ed Hengeveld |
Tom Member Posts: 1597 From: New York Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 01-12-2008 08:51 AM
Great photo, Ed.I find it odd that Shepard would be branch head for Apollo at that time (1963). Wasn't he still assigned as CDR of the first Gemini flight? |
mjanovec Member Posts: 3811 From: Midwest, USA Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 01-14-2008 03:05 PM
It appears they needed to pick astronauts to be their representative for each program... including Apollo, even though Gemini hadn't even flown by that time. So it appears they just picked some of the senior astronauts at the time... meaning flown Mercury astronauts. At this time, it was probably assumed most, if not all, of the Mercury guys may still fly again in Gemini and Apollo...since all of the Mercury guys were still technically active astronauts at the time the photo was taken. Of course, we now know that only 3 of them flew on Gemini and only 2 flew on Apollo, as Shepard was soon grounded, and both Glenn and Carpenter were soon to leave NASA. |
Philip Member Posts: 5952 From: Brussels, Belgium Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 01-15-2008 04:09 AM
Military hairdos. |
mjanovec Member Posts: 3811 From: Midwest, USA Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 01-15-2008 10:23 AM
Except for Wally and Dick. |
ASCAN1984 Member Posts: 1049 From: County Down, Nothern Ireland Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 09-11-2009 01:49 AM
Is this around the same time as Gus Grissom's famous "you're not an astronaut till you fly" speech or was that with the second group? | |
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