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Topic: Photo of the week 1008 (February 24, 2024)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3725
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 02-23-2024 01:31 PM
   
 This photo of astronaut Ed Givens in a Lunar Module mockup was published in National Geographic Magazine in September 1967. Givens had died in an automobile accident on June 6, 1967, three months before this photo was published. At the time of his death he was serving on the support crew of Apollo 7. |
Henry Heatherbank
Member Posts: 321
From: Adelaide, South Australia
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 02-23-2024 02:49 PM
I still find it hard to comprehend that Ed Givens was a finalist for the Mercury 7 group. |
Gilbert
Member Posts: 1511
From: Carrollton, GA USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 02-23-2024 04:22 PM
Nice photo! |
perineau
Member Posts: 396
From: FRANCE
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 02-24-2024 02:23 AM
Very good that those who never flew were not forgotten! Nice pic! |
Philip
Member Posts: 6253
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 02-24-2024 04:45 AM
Great photo, I've never seen before.SESL - Space Environment Simulation Laboratory training or Apollo 2 training? |
Andy Anderson
Member Posts: 123
From: Perth, Australia
Registered: Dec 2009
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posted 02-24-2024 08:19 AM
Although Nat Geo had many articles about the NASA over the years, because that one featured an article titled "Houston - Prairie Dynamo," I never realized that there were a couple of related NASA images. Thanks, Ed for showing the original full sized NASA image of Ed Givens and courtesy of National Geographic, the relevant page.I see Ed's helmet has "LTV EM 3" tagged on it.  |
Tom
Member Posts: 1733
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 02-24-2024 11:55 AM
Also, nice photo of Bill Anders practicing inside LM prior to his assignment to CSM only flight of Apollo 8. |
ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2153
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 02-25-2024 03:46 PM
I have always felt that there was a great injustice in Ed Givens not being recognised and remembered on the Astronaut Memorial Mirror at the Cape. I was told by their officials many years ago that this was because he was off-duty when he died in that car crash, and was not in training for a space mission. I argued that every astronaut back then was 24/7 and never "off-duty" and Ed was actively working as a support crew member for an Apollo mission. I mostly felt sad for Ed's family, who were excluded and not invited when the mirror was unveiled. |
GT76
Member Posts: 98
From: New Orleans, La. USA
Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 02-25-2024 06:39 PM
Great photo! |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1442
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 02-26-2024 10:04 AM
Colin, agree that Givens should be included-but then so should RADM S David Griggs USN (1939-89), a member of the 1978 TFNG class who made one flight, as an mission specialist aboard STS-51D/Discovery, and who was next slated as pilot for an upcoming Shuttle mission, before his death in a vintage plane crash. He was in training at the time for STS-33, a DoD mission, which ultimately flew in November 1989 but with John Blaha as pilot. Ironically Sonny Carter, who himself died later, was on that flight. |
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