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Topic: Photo of the week 199 (August 23, 2008)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 08-23-2008 02:35 AM
   
 Astronauts Gordon Cooper (foreground) and Donn Eisele watch AS-201 launch from Cape Kennedy on February 26, 1966. Thanks to J.L. Pickering for the photo. Ed Hengeveld
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Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 08-23-2008 04:53 AM
straight ear bar sunglasses  |
328KF
Member Posts: 1234
From:
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 08-23-2008 10:38 AM
And "that other" astronaut watch...the Bulova Accutron. |
Flyboy7077
New Member Posts: 8
From: Fremont, CA
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted 08-27-2008 02:12 AM
I find it sad to to think that this was only six months after Gemini V and you know that Gordo has to be watching this and thinking that some day he'd be at the tip of the arrow commanding an Apollo mission, only to know his true fate from the perch of 42 years later. |
hlbjr
Member Posts: 475
From: Delray Beach Florida USA
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 08-27-2008 06:29 AM
I wonder where they were actually standing in this picture? Was this the current press site, or was it one of the old press sites, or even some other location?Harvey Brown
Delray Beach, FL |
robsouth
Member Posts: 769
From: West Midlands, UK
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 08-27-2008 10:56 AM
Of course Eisele joined Cooper on the Apollo 10 back-up crew. I wonder how much input Cooper had on the crew selection, by all accounts he had no say in it whatsoever. |
Glint
Member Posts: 1040
From: New Windsor, Maryland USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 08-27-2008 02:35 PM
That's the flight whose capsule sat outside of Morrill Hall for years next to the bell tower on the campus of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. It was always cool passing by it between classes. |
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