|
Author
|
Topic: Photo of the week 281 (March 20, 2010)
|
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
|
posted 03-20-2010 02:55 AM
   
 I have no information at all on this photo, but that didn’t prevent me from posting it. The spacecraft appears to be real (and not only the spacecraft). Ed Hengeveld |
machbusterman
Member Posts: 1778
From: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Registered: May 2004
|
posted 03-20-2010 03:41 AM
Nice chassis  |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
|
posted 03-20-2010 04:02 AM
quote:
Originally posted by heng44:
The spacecraft appears to be real
There's a spacecraft in the photo? |
BMacKinnon
Member Posts: 230
From: Waterford, MI. USA
Registered: Jul 2007
|
posted 03-20-2010 04:07 AM
Is that the heavenly body simulator? I hear it was state of the art at the time! Although it appears to be spoken for. |
bobzz
Member Posts: 100
From: Batavia, Illinois
Registered: Aug 2007
|
posted 03-20-2010 10:05 AM
I hope my heatshield holds up!!!!!! |
Steve Procter
Member Posts: 1031
From: Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Oct 2000
|
posted 03-20-2010 10:14 AM
'OK Al, I'm counting to ten and then I'm coming in after you!' |
bobzz
Member Posts: 100
From: Batavia, Illinois
Registered: Aug 2007
|
posted 03-20-2010 10:38 AM
"Light this candle"!!!!! |
bruce
Member Posts: 916
From: Fort Mill, SC, USA
Registered: Aug 2000
|
posted 03-20-2010 11:25 AM
Let Freedom ring! |
icarkie
Member Posts: 618
From: BURTON ON TRENT /England
Registered: Nov 2002
|
posted 03-20-2010 11:34 AM
I don't know what she is smiling at, NASA won't let her fly it (  ) |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
|
posted 03-20-2010 12:42 PM
During a spacecraft systems and procedures checkout, Al Shepard mistakenly grabs the abort handle, fires the emergency locator signal and cracks his helmet visor on the panel, and thus fails the MPDRIT (Mercury Pilot Distraction and Reaction Interface Test) inserted into the training schedule by Wally Schirra. |
clifford
Member Posts: 233
From: Maplewood, nj, 07040
Registered: Aug 2000
|
posted 03-20-2010 01:30 PM
"No Gus, It's OK. You take the first flight. I'm going to hang out here for a while, I'll catch up with you and John later. " Little known fact, Shepard had the first flight, but... |
history in miniature
Member Posts: 600
From: Slatington, PA
Registered: Mar 2009
|
posted 03-20-2010 02:53 PM
NOW were talkin!! |
ASCAN1984
Member Posts: 1049
From: County Down, Nothern Ireland
Registered: Feb 2002
|
posted 03-20-2010 02:55 PM
Sometimes these photos look like they were shot yesterday. But having the lady in the swimsuit really stamps a date on it. |
ASCAN1984
Member Posts: 1049
From: County Down, Nothern Ireland
Registered: Feb 2002
|
posted 03-20-2010 02:58 PM
"It wasn't just the fly by wire Al had old man McDonnell throw in." |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
|
posted 03-20-2010 04:23 PM
I promise not to make any kind of crass comment about the "protection" wrapping on the Freudian symbol that the rocket represents. (Whew...hard to clean that up for the censors!) |
Steve Procter
Member Posts: 1031
From: Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Oct 2000
|
posted 03-20-2010 04:53 PM
For those of you familiar with the work of Leslie Phillips. 'DING-DONG...' |
cddfspace
Member Posts: 609
From: Morris County, NJ, USA
Registered: Jan 2006
|
posted 03-20-2010 08:04 PM
God Bless America! |
dtemple
Member Posts: 729
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
|
posted 03-20-2010 08:15 PM
quote:
Originally posted by heng44:
I have no information at all on this photo, but that didn’t prevent me from posting it. The spacecraft appears to be real (and not only the spacecraft).
Who needs information?! However, perhaps the female is Miss Florida, 1961. This appears to be a pre-flight photo judging by the fresh look of the Freedom 7 lettering. Weren't the names applied after the spacecraft arrived at the Cape? If all that is true, then the photo was taken at the Cape hence my theory. Do you have any more in the series, Ed? If so, a week 281.5 would be fine - just for research purposes of course. |
Lou Chinal
Member Posts: 1306
From: Staten Island, NY
Registered: Jun 2007
|
posted 03-20-2010 10:02 PM
I also have this photo in my files. The lady's name does not appear, but the date is June 1961. |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1047
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
|
posted 03-20-2010 11:08 PM
She seems more a 40s girl than a 60s girl. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
|
posted 03-20-2010 11:17 PM
quote:
Originally posted by dtemple:
However, perhaps the female is Miss Florida, 1961.
Miss Florida, 1961, was Sherry Grimes. |
astro-nut
Member Posts: 946
From: Washington, IL
Registered: Jan 2006
|
posted 03-21-2010 06:59 AM
"What a beautiful view"!!!! |
Safecoat
Member Posts: 93
From: Austin, TX
Registered: Sep 2007
|
posted 03-21-2010 11:27 AM
Is she still living? If so maybe she could attend an autograph show and sign some photos! |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
|
posted 03-21-2010 01:01 PM
An almost 50-year mystery at last solved: why the capsule's hatch blew prematurely.... |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
|
posted 03-21-2010 03:31 PM
Now we know why the first Mercury capsule was transported on a mattress. Don't understand why, but Granny used to talk about it...!  |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
|
posted 03-21-2010 03:59 PM
It does appear that the woman is wearing a wedding ring - or at least she has a ring on her left hand. (Why do middle aged married guys notice things like that?) So maybe Miss Florida is a red herring, so to speak. |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
|
posted 03-21-2010 05:18 PM
quote:
Originally posted by ilbasso:
So maybe Miss Florida is a red herring, so to speak.
Maybe it's my eyes, but I don't think she looks much like the picture of Sherry Grimes posted by Robert. Some red herring though. |
cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
|
posted 03-22-2010 12:53 AM
Is there a way to spray very cold water on this thread?  In case folks in Washington are wondering how to stir interest in space, that's the way to go! - at least for half the population.  |
minipci
Member Posts: 365
From: London, UK
Registered: Jul 2009
|
posted 03-22-2010 07:01 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Steve Procter:
For those of you familiar with the work of Leslie Phillips. 'DING-DONG...'
Hellooooo! |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
|
posted 03-22-2010 09:26 AM
Talk about "I Dream of Jeannie"! Looks like Shepard landed on the beach and knocked the cork out of the bottle! |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
|
posted 03-22-2010 09:35 AM
The number of replies to this thread is interesting... Unfortunately I think I have exhausted my supply of swimsuit space photos. |
cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
|
posted 03-22-2010 10:31 AM
quote:
Originally posted by heng44:
The number of replies to this thread is interesting...
As that wasn't the plan all along! quote:
Unfortunately I think I have exhausted my supply of swimsuit space photos.
What?!?! Gee, that's borderline sadistic.
|
Steve Procter
Member Posts: 1031
From: Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Oct 2000
|
posted 03-22-2010 12:29 PM
No more swimsuit photos? Would one of me in a pair of Speedos holding an inflatable Shuttle do? I thought not... |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
|
posted 03-22-2010 01:23 PM
Does this count as a swimsuit photo?  |
mikej
Member Posts: 481
From: Germantown, WI USA
Registered: Jan 2004
|
posted 03-22-2010 02:50 PM
quote:
Originally posted by ilbasso:
Does this count as a swimsuit photo?
Well, I think we have a "Don't ask, don't tell policy" around here...If we're willing to expand the topic to "swimsuit missile photos," then I'd like to submit  |
minipci
Member Posts: 365
From: London, UK
Registered: Jul 2009
|
posted 03-22-2010 05:22 PM
Don't tell the Range Safety Officer! |
Apollo Redux
Member Posts: 346
From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Registered: Sep 2006
|
posted 03-22-2010 10:42 PM
A member of the Mercury 13? |
Wehaveliftoff
Member Posts: 2343
From:
Registered: Aug 2001
|
posted 03-23-2010 01:30 PM
Va Va Va VOOM! I love this thread, one of the funniest ever... |
music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
|
posted 03-23-2010 05:24 PM
Well, check this Google image search for great examples of Rocket Pin ups and related art. |
East-Frisian
Member Posts: 586
From: Germany
Registered: Apr 2005
|
posted 03-24-2010 12:31 AM
Ed, put a good looking girl on your Photo of the Week and you have a lot of messages. |
advertisement