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Topic: Photo of the week 260 (October 24, 2009)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 10-24-2009 05:04 AM
   
 Forty years ago today, Apollo 12 lunar module pilot Alan Bean was simulating his moonwalk activity in Building 29 at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. Bean was attached to the centrifuge gondola, which was turned into a one-sixth gravity simulator. Ed Hengeveld |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4167
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 10-24-2009 05:16 AM
Whilst showing a shot from the same simulation during his lecture in Pontefract a year or so back, Alan Bean confessed the rig resulted in quite a "wedgie"! I bet they had not thought of that at the Lovelace clinic...Rick |
Lou Chinal
Member Posts: 1306
From: Staten Island, NY
Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 10-24-2009 09:03 AM
Ha-Ha-Ha! That was a good one. A while back when I was learing to walk again, I wondered if NASA had any Physical Therapist's on it's payroll? Was the bunny hop that Aldrin did a spur of the moment thing, or was it carfully chorographed? And by who? |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 10-24-2009 03:58 PM
Fellow CS-er Derek Horne was the one who supplied this photo to Bean for his lectures, after Derek had a copy of the photo signed by Bean at Spacefest 2007. It obviously gave Bean a good chance to make a joke at his own expense! |
Apollo Redux
Member Posts: 346
From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Registered: Sep 2006
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posted 10-27-2009 12:23 AM
Nice find. |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1047
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 10-27-2009 11:56 AM
Well, Beano should simulate better the TV camera mounting. |
machbusterman
Member Posts: 1778
From: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Registered: May 2004
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posted 10-30-2009 05:32 PM
I'm glad Beano uses the photo in his lectures... He told me this also when I met up with him again at the ASF show last November. |
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