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Topic: Photo of the week 395 (May 19, 2012)
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heng44 Member Posts: 3387 From: Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 05-19-2012 02:12 AM
Astronaut Al Shepard and comedian Bill Dana have some fun at the memorial service for Deke Slayton in the Teague Auditorium at JSC on June 18, 1993. Shepard is wearing his 'interoccular correction device', as he called it. At right is NASA Administrator Dan Goldin and at left is cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. Ed Hengeveld |
Cozmosis22 Member Posts: 968 From: Texas * Earth Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 05-19-2012 10:57 AM
Bill Dana, as Jose' Jimenez. "Please don't say BLAST off!" |
LM1 Member Posts: 667 From: New York, NY Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 05-19-2012 01:09 PM
Anyone remember on what TV show Bill Dana appeared regularly Jose Jimenez? |
mach3valkyrie Member Posts: 719 From: Albany, Oregon Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 05-19-2012 01:37 PM
Bill Dana was on "The Steve Allen Show" during the 1959-60 season. Then had his own show, "The Bill Dana Show" from 1963-65. He played Jose Jimenez on both shows. |
GoesTo11 Member Posts: 1309 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 05-19-2012 04:34 PM
quote: Originally posted by Cozmosis22: Bill Dana, as Jose' Jimenez. "Please don't say BLAST off!"
"I have a blast, before I take off. Otherwise I wouldn't get near that thing." |
micropooz Member Posts: 1512 From: Washington, DC, USA Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 05-19-2012 04:48 PM
I was in the audience for that! Little did we all know that we'd be back there in what seemed like just a few months (albeit 5 years), for Al's memorial...I don't remember much of the banter, but I do remember part of the talk by Dusty Dowd, one of Deke's air racing friends. Dusty was always bugging Deke to make a preflight checklist for Deke's racer. Being of the "right stuff", Deke never thought he needed one. Then one day, Deke took off in his racer and just a few feet off the ground the engine sputtered, then caught again, and Deke went on with his flight. When Dusty asked Deke about it afterward, Deke said that he had forgotten to turn on the fuel tank shutoff valve (so the engine only had whatever fuel was in the carburetor and lines, e.g - enough to get a few feet off the ground), discovered his problem when the engine sputtered, and flipped the valve open. Dusty ended the story with Deke muttering "I guess I need a $%^&ing checklist.". |
randy Member Posts: 2176 From: West Jordan, Utah USA Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 05-19-2012 09:27 PM
I remember Ed Sullivan asking if the helmet Jose was holding was his 'crash helmet', and Jose said "Oh I hope not!" Also, he was asked what he was going to do during his flight. He answered "Cry a lot." |
Peter downunder Member Posts: 57 From: Lancefield, Victoria, Australia Registered: Apr 2012
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posted 05-20-2012 06:17 AM
And from the intro to one of the episodes in FTETTM: "Sir, you seem ill-equipped for this type of endevour." "What do you mean? I have gloves and everything." |