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Topic: Photo of the week 710 (June 2, 2018)
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heng44
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From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 06-02-2018 02:14 AM
   
 Joe Gagliano, an Air Force major on assignment to the Manned Spacecraft Center's Flight Crew Support Division, is suiting up for a test of LM test article LTA-8 in the vacuum chamber at MSC in Houston on May 31, 1968. |
Rick Mulheirn
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From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 06-02-2018 04:31 AM
Nice suit detail! |
Buel
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From: UK
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 06-02-2018 08:03 AM
Just looking at the fashion of the clothes in that photo really brings it home how extraordinary it is that these people were planning on flying to the Moon (and back) in that era. To quote Sy Liebergot: "Never forget Apollo, it’ll never happen again." |
Jonnyed
Member Posts: 617
From: Dumfries, VA, USA
Registered: Aug 2014
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posted 06-02-2018 08:09 AM
Regarding the comment on fashion — love the short sleeve turtleneck. That too may never happen again!(What a special time Apollo was... so glad to have been alive for it.) |
moorouge
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From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 06-02-2018 08:30 AM
I wonder who the arm and leg on the far left belonged to? |
Michael Davis
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From: Houston, Texas
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 06-02-2018 10:19 AM
The other suited figure is likely Glennon Kingsley. He was a Grumman pilot working with Gagliano for the LTA-8 tests. |
Philip
Member Posts: 6244
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 06-02-2018 10:59 AM
Nice to see an Omega Speedmaster in use during this test... was this version of the suit also intended for MOL project? |
heng44
Member Posts: 3710
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 06-02-2018 12:05 PM
Here are Kingsley (left) and Gagliano together in Photo of the Week 275. Joe Gagliano was a veteran from MSC’s Flight Crew Support Division, who had also been involved in the CSM-008 vacuum chamber tests in 1966. Kingsley was one of a group of Grumman consulting pilots, who performed astronaut duties for tests where astronauts were unavailable. |
Jonnyed
Member Posts: 617
From: Dumfries, VA, USA
Registered: Aug 2014
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posted 06-02-2018 01:45 PM
It would be fun to still have those historic green recliners in a "man cave" somewhere.The question is: are they real leather or naugahyde? [grin] |
Wehaveliftoff
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posted 06-02-2018 08:39 PM
The "designer" of the WSS pictured must have grown up on a farm with a lot of cows. |
Philip
Member Posts: 6244
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 06-03-2018 10:30 AM
Those helmets! Is this hardware in the National Air and Space Museum collection? |
dsenechal
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posted 06-04-2018 12:05 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Wehaveliftoff:
The "designer" of the WSS pictured must have grown up on a farm with a lot of cows.
I get it.  |
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