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Topic: Photo of the week 958 (March 4, 2023)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3655
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 03-03-2023 09:51 AM
   
 Scott Carpenter and his wife Renee enjoy themselves during a party at the Cocoa Armory for the MA-6 launch team on April 23, 1962. Carpenter was John Glenn's backup for the flight. |
Starfighter1
Member Posts: 133
From:
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 03-03-2023 06:57 PM
Twist and shout. |
Ian Limbrey
Member Posts: 184
From: England
Registered: Nov 2012
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posted 03-04-2023 05:07 AM
Another nice photo Ed of a humble hero to be! I had the pleasure of meeting him over here in the UK in 2009 and what a moment it was for me! |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1956
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 03-04-2023 09:54 AM
I met him at Canaveral in 1999. He was signing autographs and I showed him my driver's license. I turned 13 the day he flew his flight. Pointing out the date to him, he looked at me and said... "You really know how to hurt a guy." We laughed heartily. |
dss65
Member Posts: 1327
From: Sandpoint, ID, USA
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted 03-09-2023 07:39 PM
You know, if that's not a photo that epitomizes more than one part of the essence of the '60s, I don't know what is. |
Paul78zephyr
Member Posts: 794
From: Hudson, MA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 03-10-2023 09:37 PM
Likely from the same event: By the way, her name is spelled Rene (rhymes with keen). Now where is KC Stoever when you need her! |
KC Stoever
Member Posts: 1022
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 03-11-2023 01:05 PM
Yes, thank you, Paul and Bob, my mom's name is pronounced REEN, not Ruh-NAY, and spelled Rene. In researching her side of the family (where I discovered she and Buzz Aldrin are related), I found Census data on the street where Rene Louise Mason, b. 1928, lived with her mother and grandmother. Two doors down Eleventh Street, Clinton, Iowa, was the eponymous Irene (nickname "Rene") Jessen, best friend of Rene's mother, Olive (Ollie), and mother of Rene's very best friend, Bobbie Jessen. And it's "Rene" on the baptismal certificate. Rene, rhymes with "keen." |
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