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Topic: Photo of the week 592 (February 27, 2016)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 02-27-2016 09:06 AM
   
 Skylab 3 commander Alan Bean chats with Director of Flight Crew Operations Deke Slayton during suiting up for launch on July 28, 1973. Chief of the Astronaut Office Alan Shepard lingers in the background. |
Tom
Member Posts: 1597
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 02-27-2016 10:05 AM
As always, Ed... great photo! |
David Carey
Member Posts: 782
From:
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 02-27-2016 03:08 PM
Thank you, Ed, for this and all of your images.As a very young man I had a pair of pants frighteningly similar to those on the partially-eclipsed person at right! |
Jonnyed
Member Posts: 396
From: Dumfries, VA, USA
Registered: Aug 2014
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posted 02-27-2016 09:18 PM
And how about the Naugahyde chair! Classic. |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1047
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 02-27-2016 11:45 PM
Why for the Skylab missions and ASTP the straps on the spacesuits were brown and not white as in the Apollo missions? |
oly
Member Posts: 905
From: Perth, Western Australia
Registered: Apr 2015
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posted 02-28-2016 12:14 AM
The brown straps are for the life preserver as seen here and here. They were a different design than the earlier Apollo design seen here and here and here, which differed to the pre-Apollo 1 design seen here. |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1047
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 02-28-2016 02:20 PM
Is the same cloth of the brown flight suits? |
mach3valkyrie
Member Posts: 719
From: Albany, Oregon
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 02-28-2016 02:41 PM
I remember getting up just before 4 a.m. PDT as the launch was scheduled for 7:11 a.m. EDT to watch the very limited television coverage available. I watched (and recorded on cassette tape) CBS News. It was the first manned launch Walter Cronkite had ever missed covering in person. Morton Dean and Wally Schirra were there. The Saturn 1B disappeared into the cloud cover pretty quickly. I had a Barcalounger like Al Bean is sitting in. Same color, too. And those pants were so popular in the mid 70's. Yikes! Ed, thanks for another gem. |
Jonnyed
Member Posts: 396
From: Dumfries, VA, USA
Registered: Aug 2014
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posted 02-28-2016 03:42 PM
What document do you think Bean is holding in his gloved hands? Some pre-flight checklist? |
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