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Topic: Photo of the week 806 (April 4, 2020)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3420
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-04-2020 03:05 AM
   
 Vibration testing of Apollo command module couches at the Manned Spacecraft Center's vibration and acoustic test facility, Building 49, in April 1968. Objective was to determine the reaction of astronauts to the severe vertical oscillations recorded on Apollo-6. Astronaut Gordon Cooper is in the CDR seat, the remaining two seats are occupied by instrumented dummies. |
perineau
Member Posts: 252
From: FRANCE
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 04-04-2020 03:21 AM
Thanks as always for posting. Interesting pic of Gordon Cooper. I was disappointed that he never got to fly Apollo... |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1531
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 04-04-2020 08:44 AM
Cooper was certainly a trooper. Two backup crew assignments in a row without getting another flight. Human test subject. Head of the AAP branch of the Astronaut Office back when it was still a concept. I can't imagine Wally Schirra or any of the other Original 7 doing any of that. |
Tom
Member Posts: 1611
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 04-04-2020 09:49 AM
Not to mention, two VERY successful spaceflights under his belt!
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randy
Member Posts: 2241
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 04-04-2020 02:37 PM
Both of them record setting at the time. |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1640
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 04-04-2020 03:54 PM
On one hand, these are jobs you would expect to give to rookies (like the SMEAT crew), on the other maybe Deke trusted Gordo to do the job. Perhaps he should have been on the Apollo 7 crew. |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1531
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 04-04-2020 06:36 PM
As Mike Collins put it about Cooper in Carrying The Fire: "Did a great job on Mercury, not bad on Gemini, but Apollo seemed too much." I assume he was referring to Cooper's training ethic and thoroughness. He was obviously willing to take on any assignment he was asked to do. He strikes me as a "kick the tires and light the fire" kind of pilot, not a systematic preparation fanatic like Borman or McDivitt. |
taneal1
Member Posts: 242
From: Orlando, FL
Registered: Feb 2004
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posted 04-26-2020 01:09 PM
Excellent rare photo, as always. Thanks, Ed!By the way, I've seen the photos of Gordo in an early Apollo suit, and in the Spacecraft Films' video of Apollo 10. Have you come up with any still photos of Gordo in the Apollo 10 suit, or in the LM or LM sim? |
heng44
Member Posts: 3420
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-28-2020 02:14 AM
Not yet! |
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