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Topic: Photo of the week 602 (May 7, 2016)
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heng44
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From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 05-06-2016 03:01 PM
   
 Debriefing of the Gemini 5 crew during a meeting of the Astronaut Office led by Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton in early September 1965. |
Tom
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From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 05-07-2016 08:41 AM
Nice photo, Ed.Would you know who the two gentlemen are sitting to the left of Walt Cunningham and facing Gordon Cooper? Also who is sitting to Pete Conrad's left? Thanks... |
randy
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From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 05-07-2016 10:28 AM
Here are my guesses - left of Walt Cunningham, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell; Pete Conrad's left, Charlie Duke. |
JohnPaul56
Member Posts: 180
From: Montclair, NJ, USA
Registered: Apr 2010
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posted 05-07-2016 11:48 AM
Not sure about Charlie Duke to the left of Pete. It's a low res image. I think it could be Donn Eisele. |
heng44
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From: Netherlands
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posted 05-07-2016 12:40 PM
Eisele is next to Conrad, facing what could be Borman and Lovell. |
nasamad
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From: Essex, UK
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 05-07-2016 02:08 PM
Well no ones given a guess yet, so I'm gonna try for Young hidden by Aldrin, purely by the pipe.  Great shot Ed, keep them coming please. |
JohnPaul56
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From: Montclair, NJ, USA
Registered: Apr 2010
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posted 05-07-2016 03:16 PM
I'm assuming that's Elliot See between Tom Stafford and Al... |
Tom
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From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 05-07-2016 09:54 PM
Yes... and I'm guessing that's Jim McDivitt sitting in the foreground to the left of Al Bean. |
Henry Heatherbank
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From: Adelaide, South Australia
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 05-07-2016 11:30 PM
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Originally posted by JohnPaul56:
Not sure about Charlie Duke to the left of Pete.
The dating of the photo (September 1965) makes it too early for Charlie Duke, who was not selected as an astronaut until April 1966, and didn't report to the Manned Spacecraft Centre (as I understand it) until a few months after that. |
Ken Havekotte
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From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 05-08-2016 06:27 AM
My guess starting at left would be; Aldrin, Young, Stafford, See, Shepard, Slayton, Cooper, Conrad, Eisele, White, ?, Cunningham, Borman, Schirra, Bean, and maybe McDivitt. |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 05-08-2016 06:52 AM
It looks like the person Ed White is talking to is Dave Scott. |
Ken Havekotte
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From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 05-08-2016 07:01 AM
Yes, good choice of Scott and is there someone sitting between Cunningham and Borman? |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 05-08-2016 07:11 AM
One of the unidentified persons might be the FCSD REP who was present at the debrief. FCSD is Flight Crew Support Division.Backup CP Neil Armstrong does not seem to be in the photo. He might be at the table at far right and out of view. |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 05-08-2016 08:16 AM
This September 5, 1965 article in the Chicago Tribune mentions the Gemini 5 debriefing. It says that all the astronauts were there. So that would be 29 by my count, which agrees with the article. |
mikepf
Member Posts: 441
From: San Jose, California, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 05-09-2016 07:09 PM
I'm just wondering where's Waldo? |
Delta7
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From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 05-11-2016 11:22 PM
In September 1965 there were 27 astronauts on active duty in Houston. Of the 30 selected in Groups 1-3, Glenn had retired, Ted Freeman was deceased and Carpenter was on leave to work as an Aquanaut with the Navy's Sealab project. That doesn't include the 6 new scientist-astronauts whose selection had been announced the previous month. |
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