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Topic: Photo of the week 548 (April 25, 2015)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-25-2015 03:24 AM
   
 A gathering of support crewmembers for the joint US/Soviet Apollo-Soyuz mission in Houston in April 1975, forty years ago this month. In front are Yuri Romanenko, Dick Truly and Bob Crippen. Behind them are Alexander Ivanchenkov and Bo Bobko. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 04-25-2015 03:44 AM
Were these trained as back-ups? |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-25-2015 05:50 AM
No, support. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-25-2015 06:05 AM
...and who, disguised as Dick Truly,
Mild-mannered astronaut for a great national space agency,
supports a never-ending mission for TRUTH, JUSTICE and the AMERICAN WAY! |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2915
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 04-25-2015 06:35 AM
Besides those pictured here, Bob Overmyer was another U.S. ASTP support crewman. The backup crew consisted of Alan Bean, Ron Evans, and Jack Lousma.The Russian cosmonauts, on the other hand, had assigned four 2-man crews for their participation in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. |
space1
Member Posts: 853
From: Danville, Ohio
Registered: Dec 2002
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posted 04-25-2015 07:18 AM
Don't all of them have that shirt on underneath their crew clothing?  |
mprender
Member Posts: 21
From: Winston Salem North Carolina
Registered: Apr 2015
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posted 04-25-2015 09:56 AM
They all look so young! |
mach3valkyrie
Member Posts: 719
From: Albany, Oregon
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 04-25-2015 11:35 AM
Looks like a Snoopy Apollo-Soyuz Space Teams decal alongside the ASTP program decal over an open Apollo Command Module hatch. |
randy
Member Posts: 2176
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 04-25-2015 12:07 PM
Yes, mach3valkkyrie, that is indeed what it is. |
OV-105
Member Posts: 816
From: Ridgecrest, CA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 04-25-2015 02:39 PM
Nice cutaway of the ASTP docking unit behind them. Alright, who left their coffee cup above the CM hatch? |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1047
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 04-25-2015 06:46 PM
Funny... all ex-MOL astrospies that had to spy the Russians. |
Lou Chinal
Member Posts: 1306
From: Staten Island, NY
Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 04-25-2015 08:18 PM
Very rare picture of the inside of the docking module. |
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