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Topic: Photo of the week 283 (April 3, 2010)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-03-2010 02:36 AM
   
 Test pilot and future astronaut Joe Engle gets a kiss from his wife Mary at Edwards Air Force Base in California after flying the X-15 rocket ship to an altitude of 53 miles on June 25, 1965. The flight made the Air Force captain the 12th American to qualify for pilot-astronaut rating by exceeding 50 miles altitude. Ed Hengeveld |
buckeyecal
Member Posts: 90
From: soon to be Boise, ID USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 04-03-2010 11:27 AM
...and how was your day, dear? |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 04-03-2010 11:35 AM
"Honey, I'm home! I'm gonna wash the vehicle after dinner!" |
history in miniature
Member Posts: 600
From: Slatington, PA
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 04-03-2010 11:51 AM
What do you suppose took the NASA meatball logo off? |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 04-03-2010 01:24 PM
Cool briefcase, by the way! |
KSCartist
Member Posts: 2896
From: Titusville, FL USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 04-03-2010 02:03 PM
"Glad you had a nice day - now take out the trash and the washing machine is acting up again and the lawn needs to be cut." |
E2M Lem Man
Member Posts: 846
From: Los Angeles CA. USA
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 04-03-2010 02:30 PM
"This is Edwards AFB in the Mojave desert... what lawn, dear?"...and the reentry heat always melted the NASA meatball logo decal off... why did they use a decal? |
ASCAN1984
Member Posts: 1049
From: County Down, Nothern Ireland
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 04-04-2010 03:53 AM
"Hello Darling, how was your day?" "Swell." "You know Mr. Slayton said if things keep going the way they are, I might be seeing that Apollo 17 slot sooner than I thought." "Oh darling, that's wonderful, I always knew you could do it."  PS: Are they still married? I hope so. |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 04-04-2010 02:02 PM
His wife Mary passed away some years ago, and he has since remarried. |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 04-15-2010 02:10 AM
quote:
Originally posted by E2M Lem Man:
...and the reentry heat always melted the NASA meatball logo decal off... why did they use a decal?
Maybe because they didn't have any decent heat resistant paint yet in that shade of blue (likely they just had white, yellow and red). |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 04-19-2010 01:03 AM
Looking through a file tonight for something else I came across this photo of Joe and Mary Engle I took on the flight line at Edwards in front of a mockup of the X-15. Behind them was the B-52 used to drop the X-15s, I was told.
This was taken at an event in 1999, as I recall, celebrating the X-15 program and attended by Engle, Crossfield, Dana and Knight, who were all lined up in front of the X-15 with their wives at the time of this photo. Probably taken pretty close to the place the 1965 photo above was taken. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-22-2010 11:57 PM
Excellent photo, Francis! |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 04-23-2010 04:30 PM
Thanks, Ed. When I came across it I was struck by the similarity with that older photo. |
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