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Topic: Photo of the week 226 (February 28, 2009)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 02-28-2009 03:30 AM
   
 Forty years ago today, Apollo 9 was scheduled to be launched. But one day earlier the flight had been delayed for three days to give the crew a chance to recover from a “mild viral respiratory illness”, or cold. So the astronauts had some extra time to get a haircut. Barbers Matt Jude (foreground) and Chuck Quadrozzi give Dave Scott and Jim McDivitt a close cropping. Rusty Schweickart is not shown. Ed Hengeveld |
APG85
Member Posts: 306
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Registered: Jan 2008
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posted 02-28-2009 07:57 AM
Great picture! I was there that day (or the day before) and saw the Saturn V on the pad. I was a little kid but I'll never forget it! |
spaceman48263
Member Posts: 75
From: Michigan
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted 02-28-2009 11:25 AM
You can see the reflection of someone in the third chair. Doesn’t look like Rusty. |
robsouth
Member Posts: 769
From: West Midlands, UK
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 02-28-2009 12:14 PM
Could it be Worden? He was on the support crew. |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 02-28-2009 12:48 PM
Was this at the NASA MFGCF (Manned Follicle Growth Curtailment Facility), or did they go to a local barber shop? |
nasamad
Member Posts: 2121
From: Essex, UK
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 02-28-2009 05:01 PM
Looks like there's a fourth chair as well (being done by the guy in blue), and if Ed could get a better scan of his (already reflected) reflection just to the left of Scott's head we might be able to see who it is. |
nasamad
Member Posts: 2121
From: Essex, UK
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 02-28-2009 06:29 PM
JL just emailed me a hi-res version of this shot, and if I HAD to put astronaut names to the heads in the mirror I'd go for Ed Mitchell next to McDivitt then Cunningham at the end. But I assume it wasn't an astronauts-only barbers, so it could have been anyone really!Adam P.S. What's next week's guessing game Ed? |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 03-01-2009 01:35 PM
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Originally posted by nasamad:
P.S. What's next week's guessing game Ed?
Next week we will be in the middle of the Apollo 9 flight...Ed |
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