Posts: 3207 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
posted 11-09-2017 10:55 PM
The Apollo 1 crew can be seen wearing their mission patch in photo KSC-67PC-16 dated January 17, 1967.
I didn't realize the mission patch had also been worn at the left shoulder, as Roger Chaffee is doing in photo KSC-366C-126-16. That photo is dated October 18, 1966.
Mike Dixon Member
Posts: 1397 From: Kew, Victoria, Australia Registered: May 2003
posted 11-09-2017 11:59 PM
Let alone the reverse shoulder for the flag.
LM-12 Member
Posts: 3207 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
posted 11-10-2017 12:05 AM
The mission patch moved from the left shoulder, but the flag stayed at the right shoulder. Are there photos of all three crewmen wearing the mission patch at the left shoulder?
Tom Member
Posts: 1597 From: New York Registered: Nov 2000
posted 11-10-2017 04:59 PM
Here's one of Grissom:
LM-12 Member
Posts: 3207 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
posted 11-10-2017 07:56 PM
There is some footage of Grissom, White and Chaffee wearing their Apollo 1 mission patch at the left shoulder in "The Mighty Saturns: Saturn 1 and 1B" from Spacecraft Films.
LM-12 Member
Posts: 3207 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
posted 11-11-2017 01:01 PM
Photo S68-26203 shows Ed White in the altitude chamber wearing his mission patch at the left shoulder.
LM-12 Member
Posts: 3207 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
posted 11-13-2017 02:23 PM
Found more AS-204 footage at the altitude chamber from SpaceInHD.
LM-12 Member
Posts: 3207 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
posted 11-14-2017 10:18 PM
Where would the crew have suited up on the planned launch date of Feb 21? Would the suiting-up room on the third floor of the MSOB have been ready by that time?
LM-12 Member
Posts: 3207 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
posted 09-27-2019 09:30 PM
Retro Space Images has this nice colour photo of Gus Grissom wearing the Apollo 1 mission patch on his left shoulder.
posted 11-09-2017 10:55 PM
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