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Topic: Photo of the week 730 (October 20, 2018)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 10-20-2018 09:02 AM
   
 Half a century ago this week, Apollo 7 splashed down at 7:11 a.m. EDT, October 22, 1968, in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 200 nautical miles south-southwest of Bermuda. The photo shows the crew arriving aboard the USS Essex, the prime recovery ship for the mission. Astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham are being led by Dr. Donald E. Stullken, NASA Recovery Team Leader from the Manned Spacecraft Center's Landing and Recovery Division. |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 10-20-2018 02:20 PM
I had the opportunity to talk to the chopper pilot of this crew recovery. Some interesting things one wouldn't know. |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1587
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 10-20-2018 07:55 PM
C'mon, don't keep us in suspense! |
OV-105
Member Posts: 816
From: Ridgecrest, CA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 10-20-2018 10:47 PM
You can’t leave everyone guessing, you got to spill now. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 10-23-2018 02:19 AM
Indeed mentioning Alpha, needs to elaborate Bravo. |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 10-23-2018 10:44 AM
That's a Charlie... but a confidence is a confidence. |
Jonnyed
Member Posts: 396
From: Dumfries, VA, USA
Registered: Aug 2014
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posted 10-23-2018 07:36 PM
Ah, but 50 years later an old confidence becomes an innocent story.  |
Panther494
Member Posts: 402
From: London UK
Registered: Jan 2013
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posted 10-24-2018 10:39 AM
Anything to do with alcohol?  |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-24-2018 11:38 AM
If so, the Walt Cunningham may have let it slip at this past weekend's 50th anniversary celebration at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas: Lifted out of the Atlantic Ocean into a helicopter that would land them on the deck of the USS Essex aircraft carrier, Cunningham, Schirra and Eisele were in for one more surprise."One of the guys on the helicopter had a bottle a booze and offered us a drink," revealed Cunningham to both laughter and applause. |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 10-24-2018 12:35 PM
That's pretty interesting... adds to the others. |
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