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Topic: Photo of the week 947 (December 17, 2022)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3638
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 12-16-2022 01:57 PM
   
 Gemini 11 astronauts Pete Conrad (left) and Dick Gordon with Gordon's daughter Diane, several days before launch in September 1966. |
Michael Davis
Member Posts: 555
From: Houston, Texas
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 12-16-2022 02:34 PM
Thank you for this. Easy to forget the human factor in the early program. Gordon would be putting his life on the line for country in just days. Good to see a human moment of father and daughter prior to the mission. Wish Pete had been in the picture as well. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3550
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 12-16-2022 03:49 PM
In above posting "wishing Pete had been in the picture as well," that's Pete Conrad on the left, or do you mean that Pete's family is not included? |
Michael Davis
Member Posts: 555
From: Houston, Texas
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 12-16-2022 04:13 PM
Ken -Thanks. How stupid of me. For whatever reason I thought I was looking at Tom Stafford instead of Conrad. My day is now complete. |
Ian Limbrey
Member Posts: 180
From: England
Registered: Nov 2012
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posted 12-17-2022 04:52 AM
Another nice photo Ed and they look so relaxed and I assumed they had done their Gemini mission then I read your comment! |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1098
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 12-19-2022 01:46 PM
Dick Gordon looked like a bit to the British actor Patrick McNee ("John Steed of "The Avengers"). |
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