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Topic: Photo of the week 910 (April 2, 2022)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3575
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-01-2022 02:31 PM
   
 Astronaut-candidates Fred Gregory, Loren Shriver and Don Williams are seen during emergency egress training at Johnson Space Center in December 1978. |
Starfighter1
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Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 04-01-2022 10:16 PM
Yet another excellent photo. Thank you once again. |
Jonnyed
Member Posts: 533
From: Dumfries, VA, USA
Registered: Aug 2014
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posted 04-04-2022 04:23 PM
Still black and white in late 1978? When did NASA switch over to color photos or did they have some shots that they preferred in B&W even though color film was available? Great photo. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3575
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-05-2022 03:41 AM
NASA photographers shot in color plus B&W until well into the nineties. This has always been a minor mystery to me. Photos that were shot in color were also frequently printed in B&W, apparently for use by newspapers. The caption on the back would say 'color'.When covering the early Shuttle launches at KSC I saw NASA photographers running around with contraptions with two cameras, loaded with both color and B&W film. These were taking photos simultaneously. I have various examples in my files of both shots, which are almost identical but taken 50cm apart like a stereo pair. Only one is in color and the other in B&W. |
David C
Member Posts: 1327
From: Lausanne
Registered: Apr 2012
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posted 04-05-2022 03:51 AM
I’m not a photographic expert, but I believe that with wet film, black and white has always provided superior resolution and contrast to color. Basically you can see more detail. That’s why it never died for both technical and artistic photography.I have some framed autographed black and white space pictures for just that reason. The sharpness and detail is amazing in comparison to the more common color versions of the scenes. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3575
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-05-2022 04:00 AM
Here is photographer Klaus Wilckens with his two-camera contraption recording arrival of STS-1 astronauts Young and Crippen at KSC. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3575
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-05-2022 04:02 AM
STS-2 pre-launch breakfast. This is an example of photos taken with the dual cameras. Note difference in perspective above Hartsfield's head at right. Apparently the cameras were held vertically here. |
Jonnyed
Member Posts: 533
From: Dumfries, VA, USA
Registered: Aug 2014
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posted 04-05-2022 04:45 PM
Ed and folks — thanks! Fascinating how practices like different photo approaches came to be. |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1078
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 04-05-2022 09:47 PM
All the astronauts of group 8 (and the others in active service in 1978-79) had the SR-71 modified pressure suit?Is possible that in those years NASA had not decided to remove the pressure suits after the early four shuttle orbital test flights? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 48111
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-05-2022 10:10 PM
According to Dennis Jenkins in "Dressing for Altitude," 13 S1030A ejection escape suits were produced by David Clark for NASA. In addition to a certification unit, the suits were used by: John Young, Bob Crippen, Joe Engle, Dick Truly, Jack Lousma, Fred Haise, Vance Brand, Gordon Fullerton, Ken Mattingly, Paul Weitz, Hank Hartsfield and Bob Overmyer. Originally, NASA had planned for six OFT missions, but flew only four. After STS-4: Five of the S1030A suits were sent to Beale AFB, where the PSD recovered the hardware for use on standard S1030 PPAs. NASA removed the USAF hardware from the remainder of the suits and they were subsequently scrapped... |
heng44
Member Posts: 3575
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-06-2022 06:14 AM
Of course we all know these 16 portraits that NASA released in 1979 of the astronauts that eventually flew the first six missions. Apparently Haise had already resigned at that time. |
Mike Dixon
Member Posts: 1608
From: Kew, Victoria, Australia
Registered: May 2003
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posted 04-06-2022 08:30 AM
And I had a devil of a time trying to get the Paul Weitz  |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1078
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 04-06-2022 11:47 AM
I remember a picture of Ronald McNair, Guy Bluford and Fred Gregory in S1030A suits. Were the backup suits of some astronauts of the OFT missions? |
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