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heng44
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posted 01-16-2010 07:08 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Astronauts John Young (right) and Bob Crippen are performing a test on the flightdeck of the Space Shuttle Columbia, which at the time was in the Orbiter Processing Facility at KSC undergoing preparations for STS-1.

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John Young proving he can smile (occasionally). It's a nice photo Ed. In fact, I wish I had seen it prior to the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation's mail-in signing for Bob Crippen.

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posted 01-16-2010 09:47 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Greggy_D   Click Here to Email Greggy_D     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What a great picture! Ed, do you have the date this pic was taken?

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posted 01-16-2010 10:37 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Greggy_D:
Ed, do you have the date this pic was taken?
Yes, October 1, 1980.

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posted 01-16-2010 10:57 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ilbasso   Click Here to Email ilbasso     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
In these days when seven-person crews are the norm, it's hard to believe we flew the Shuttle with only two people on board!

Those were two brave fellows...and when you read the stories of the near-disastrous things that happened on STS-1, you appreciate even more how brave they were.

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posted 01-16-2010 11:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for StarDome   Click Here to Email StarDome     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great pics Ed as always.

How about giving us a link each week to a hi-res version of each of the pics you post?

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posted 01-16-2010 02:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The pictures you see are posted in a Photobucket-account, where they are automatically downsized...

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posted 01-16-2010 04:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Philip   Click Here to Email Philip     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great ot see an image of the preparation of STS-1, and this year STS missions will become a thing of the past...

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posted 01-16-2010 05:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for StarDome   Click Here to Email StarDome     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks Ed, no way of posting them a different way then? Or linking to the hi-res version?

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posted 01-17-2010 01:59 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for apolloprojeckt   Click Here to Email apolloprojeckt     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yes very nice picture, I hope that NASA the last shuttle flight launch on 12-04-2011.

Exactly one period of 30 years, NASA would brighten if they would do that...

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Thanks Ed, no way of posting them a different way then?
Buy the cd/dvd!

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posted 01-17-2010 05:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for RichieB16   Click Here to Email RichieB16     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I love this photo. Does anyone know if it is available on one of NASA's sites in high resolution?

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posted 01-17-2010 07:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Apollo Redux   Click Here to Email Apollo Redux     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Nice one. John Young the professional astronaut. Excellent.

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Buy the cd/dvd!
I have every one of the discs that have been produced so far for all programmes, and this image was not on my STS-1 Disc.

There had been an update of over 400 images to that STS-1 disc since I first bought mine, and this one was an update.

New and updated disc on it's way soon.

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posted 01-19-2010 02:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I must admit that this particular image is not on the updated disc, as I edited out two techs standing in the background. The version without the technicians that I used for that purpose has Young and Crippen without helmets on.

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posted 01-20-2010 01:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for StarDome   Click Here to Email StarDome     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
So can you email me a full scan so I can add it to my STS-1 disc please.

Any more like it too?

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posted 01-20-2010 05:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Will do, Andy. No, this was the only one...

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posted 01-22-2010 06:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for StarDome   Click Here to Email StarDome     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks Ed, very kind of you.

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