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Topic: Photo of the week 615 (August 6, 2016)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 08-05-2016 01:43 PM
   
 Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong blows out the candles on his birthday cake as he celebrates his 39th birthday, while still confined to the Lunar Receiving Laboratory on August 5, 1969. |
Ian Limbrey
Member Posts: 124
From: England
Registered: Nov 2012
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posted 08-05-2016 02:30 PM
Great photo! This should have been one hell of a birthday celebration for Neil but I guess he was just slightly restricted due to the quarantine restrictions!
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capoetc
Member Posts: 2169
From: McKinney TX (USA)
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 08-05-2016 02:51 PM
Great pic!Shoulda' used the LM model as a cake topper.  |
Jurg Bolli
Member Posts: 977
From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 08-05-2016 04:44 PM
Great photo, I have never seen this! |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-05-2016 05:04 PM
Armstrong appears to be wearing the Omega Speedmaster he almost wore on the moon (but left inside Eagle instead). Note the Velcro strap wrapped around his wrist a couple of times... |
ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2031
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 08-05-2016 05:33 PM
Curiosity makes me wonder whatever happened to such things as the table in that photo. Wouldn't you love to have that in your house, knowing the history behind it? I wonder where it ended up? |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 08-05-2016 05:36 PM
Good thing the guy in the yellow shirt has a stogy to kill all those moon germs. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-05-2016 05:56 PM
Another observation: the microphone pointed at the tape player/recorder. I wonder if it was playing something festive? |
music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 08-06-2016 10:13 AM
Do we know the other people present? |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3208
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 08-06-2016 12:10 PM
Don't know all the names, but S69-42022 is a photo of the the crew with the quarantine support personnel. |
Rocketman!
Member Posts: 121
From: Redmond, Washington, USA
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted 08-06-2016 12:39 PM
quote:
Originally posted by capoetc:
Shoulda' used the LM model as a cake topper.
I think it would have burned up in the atmosphere. If I am not mistaken, that is one of the paper models from the Gulf Oil Company. I wonder if it was intended as a gag gift. |
Wehaveliftoff
Member Posts: 2343
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Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 08-06-2016 08:40 PM
Don't understand Lunar Receiving place, which allowed others to be in it?
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-06-2016 09:04 PM
They were quarantined for the full time along with the astronauts. Per quarantine officer Gary McCollum: In addition to the three Apollo crewmembers, other personnel quarantined in the LRL were two crew surgeons, a recovery engineer, medical laboratory technicians, cooks, and stewards. |
lunarrv15
Member Posts: 1355
From: Cincinnati, Ohio, Hamilton
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 08-06-2016 09:51 PM
Someone else inhaling tobacco... see the cigar on the counter left of Neil. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 08-07-2016 03:28 AM
quote:
Originally posted by music_space:
Do we know the other people present?
Standing in the doorway is John Hirasaki. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3208
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 08-25-2018 10:58 PM
The birthday celebration is included in this footage taken inside the Lunar Receiving Lab. The first scenes were taken in the MQF. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 09-05-2018 04:49 AM
Superb color photo Ed and well spotted Robert... clearly champagne colored (Tritium) lume on that Speedmaster. |
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