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Topic: Photo of the week 395 (May 19, 2012)
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heng44
Member Posts: 2339
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted May 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: 175
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted May 19, 2012 10:57 AM
Bill Dana, as Jose' Jimenez. "Please don't say BLAST off!"  |
LM1
Member Posts: 200
From: Albany, NY USA
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted May 19, 2012 01:09 PM
Anyone remember on what TV show Bill Dana appeared regularly Jose Jimenez? |
mach3valkyrie
Member Posts: 65
From: Albany, Oregon USA
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted May 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: 756
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted May 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: 1163
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted May 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: 1136
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted May 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
New Member Posts: 6
From: Lancefield, Victoria, Australia
Registered: Apr 2012
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posted May 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." | |
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