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Topic: Astronauts and cosmonauts' tattoos (body art)
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Alan
Member Posts: 104
From: BELGIUM
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 06-21-2002 04:44 PM
   
Are there astronauts who have a tattoo? |
ejectr
Member Posts: 2074
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 06-22-2002 06:44 AM
Not really what you call a tattoo, but John Glenn noted in his book that he, at least, had them tattoo the spots where they attached the biological sensors so that they could get the same spot all the time to corrolate the data. I think I read somewhere that a couple of the others did this, too. |
Philip
Member Posts: 6397
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 06-22-2002 10:26 AM
I believe this photo shows Kay Hire with a (temporary?) tattoo on her left-shoulder... |
Paul78zephyr
Member Posts: 820
From: Hudson, MA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 12-03-2006 08:57 PM
In this photo, a tattoo can be seen on Apollo 12 commander Pete Conrad's left forearm. Does anyone knew what the tattoo was? It kind of looks like the ship (Intrepid?). |
Tom
Member Posts: 1804
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 12-03-2006 09:15 PM
The tattoo does look like a sailing ship. |
FutureAstronaut
Member Posts: 372
From:
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 12-03-2006 09:15 PM
I don't have any knowledge of this, but it could be an anchor. I don't mean to stereotype, but a lot of Navy guys have anchor tattoos. |
WAWalsh
Member Posts: 809
From: Cortlandt Manor, NY
Registered: May 2000
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posted 12-06-2006 08:01 AM
Courtesy of the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, the following is a second shot of the tattoo. I fear it does not help much (but part does appear to be an anchor).  |
PC JR
New Member Posts: 3
From: Uvalde,Texas,USA
Registered: May 2005
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posted 12-06-2006 11:09 AM
The tattoo was an anchor and his intials with a rattle snake head. He had it put on his arm during WWII. He was 15 years old and he wanted to look like a sailor or an adult he was small in stature and looked very young. |
Scott
Member Posts: 3338
From: Houston, TX
Registered: May 2001
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posted 12-06-2006 12:13 PM
Pete, thanks for posting. Your Dad was a special guy. |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3322
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 12-06-2006 12:43 PM
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Originally posted by PC JR:
The tattoo was an anchor and his initials with a rattle snake head.
Thanks so much. Do you recall or have photos to check to know if the blue anchor was surrounded by stars, with his initials underneath? That is what I read somewhere. |
PC JR
New Member Posts: 3
From: Uvalde,Texas,USA
Registered: May 2005
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posted 12-07-2006 10:19 AM
If memory serves me right I believe the anchor was blue and there were stars around it. I know he was not very proud of it and that he did not want any of his children to have tattoos. |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3322
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 12-07-2006 01:24 PM
Thanks so much for that recollection, much appreciated. |
NJSPACEFAN
Member Posts: 133
From: Ocala, FL USA
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 01-27-2015 03:00 PM
I think I remember seeing a USMC tattoo on Jack Lousma's arm, but I could be wrong. |
p51
Member Posts: 1795
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 01-27-2015 04:18 PM
I heard rumors from some friends who work at JSC who were there in the heyday of the STS era that a few astronauts tattooed their names and/or SSNs on various body parts after the Challenger disaster. You can figure out the reasons on your own.I've always wondered if it was true or not, but I've never had the nerve to ask any shuttle-era astronauts I've talked with about it. |
Neil DC
Member Posts: 215
From: Middletown, NJ, USA
Registered: May 2010
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posted 01-27-2015 10:04 PM
I believe Luca Parmitano has a small one on his chest and in a tennis playing shot of Vladimir Kovalyonok he had a plant/leaves like design on his left forearm. |
Philip
Member Posts: 6397
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 09-26-2020 09:33 AM
Here's a post-flight Gemini V September 1965 photo showing Pete Conrad wearing his personal Glycine Airman automatic GMT pilot watch... tattoo visible! |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 56647
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-05-2026 07:40 PM
Navy SEAL, medical doctor and NASA astronaut Jonny Kim has a tattoo on his left arm of the SEAL Trident with the Greek symbol of medicine intertwined around it. On his right arm are the names of friends who died in combat.  |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 56647
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-05-2026 07:50 PM
Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman was at Space Center Houston today (June 5) to be tattooed with the mission's trajectory. Photo credit Space Center Houston educator Angela Ortiz Pichardo (via social media):  |
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