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heng44
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posted 03-21-2015 03:18 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Fifty years ago this week, John Young winked at photographer Ralph Morse as he walked up the ramp to the elevator at Pad 19, followed by Gus Grissom. The Gemini 3 crew boarded their spacecraft several minutes later and launch took place at 9:24 am EST on March 23, 1965.

Ken Havekotte
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posted 03-21-2015 04:33 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ken Havekotte   Click Here to Email Ken Havekotte     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great photo choice, Ed, of Gemini's first manned crew at the pad on launch morning.

After seeing this picture of Grissom and Young so many times in the past, I never did notice beforehand that Young was winking at photographer Ralph Morse.

What an exciting day that had to be in our nation's spaceflight history -- fifty years ago this week!

Ian Limbrey
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posted 03-21-2015 06:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ian Limbrey   Click Here to Email Ian Limbrey     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great photo and the start of John Young's amazing space career! Just wondering though, where has he concealed his corned beef sandwich probably in one of his leg pouches?

Tom
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posted 03-21-2015 07:59 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Tom   Click Here to Email Tom     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Keep up the great job, Ed... fantastic photo!

mach3valkyrie
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posted 03-21-2015 02:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mach3valkyrie   Click Here to Email mach3valkyrie     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What an exciting time — always a manned launch on the horizon. Great photo.

Wehaveliftoff
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posted 03-22-2015 10:27 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Wehaveliftoff     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Perhaps the best photo of the week I can remember, best reason to visit this website.

Keep up the good work Mr. Hengeveld.

ejectr
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posted 03-22-2015 10:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ejectr   Click Here to Email ejectr     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I remember it like it was yesterday. Just finishing up my sophomore year in high school.

The good ol' days!

garymilgrom
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posted 03-22-2015 11:39 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for garymilgrom   Click Here to Email garymilgrom     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Ian Limbrey:
Just wondering though, where has he concealed his corned beef sandwich probably in one of his leg pouches?
I have read the sandwich came from a leg pouch and it seems both pouches are quite full in this photo, so I think we're looking directly at a famous item from Wolfie's deli! Very cool.

Tom
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posted 03-22-2015 02:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Tom   Click Here to Email Tom     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Just thinking how ironic this photo is...it is the first and last "launch day photo" for them.

Ian Limbrey
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posted 03-22-2015 02:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ian Limbrey   Click Here to Email Ian Limbrey     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks Gary, I believe I read somewhere that the sandwich was purchased by Wally Schirra at the request of John Young at his favourite sandwich bar — Wolfies Deli!

onesmallstep
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posted 03-23-2015 02:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for onesmallstep   Click Here to Email onesmallstep     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The sandwich has been preserved for posterity, and in honor of deli menus everywhere, at the Grissom Memorial Museum in Indiana.

sts205cdr
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posted 03-23-2015 07:50 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for sts205cdr   Click Here to Email sts205cdr     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I don't think this can be "the" sandwich. Grissom is said to have taken a bite and immediately became concerned about floating crumbs. Part of the beef that ensued (no pun intended) involved the corruption of biomedical data as a result of consuming a portion of the sandwich.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 03-23-2015 08:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
No, it is not the flown sandwich; it is only a commemorative corned beef (as noted in the caption to our article today). That said, the remnants of real sandwich was rumored to have also been encased before landing on John Young's desk at NASA, where it sat for decades.

Hart Sastrowardoyo
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posted 03-23-2015 08:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Hart Sastrowardoyo   Click Here to Email Hart Sastrowardoyo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
New acrylic, perhaps?

LM-12
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posted 03-24-2015 02:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Notice the white Gemini spacecraft on the blue hard hats in the crowd. I think they are McDonnell workers.

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