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Topic: Apollo crew portraits in business suits
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RobertB
Member Posts: 168
From: Israel
Registered: Nov 2012
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posted 04-11-2020 10:26 AM
   
The Apollo 13 official crew portrait shows the crew in suits and ties instead of spacesuits. I assume this is because of the tight schedule after the crew change. Are there any other examples of official portraits in regular clothes?  |
randy
Member Posts: 2231
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 04-11-2020 11:25 AM
The Apollo 13 crew photo was the only one I could find that was in business suits, unless you count the photos of the Mercury astronauts (which, technically, they were crew photos). There were also photos in flight suits and gag photos. |
Philip
Member Posts: 6002
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 04-11-2020 12:12 PM
Apollo 7 and Apollo 11 were photographed in civil clothes, but these do not count as official crew photos.By the way, Apollo 13 CMP Jack Swigert individual WSS (White Space Suit) portrait was only made in 1971! |
nasamad
Member Posts: 2142
From: Essex, UK
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 04-11-2020 03:11 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Philip:
...was only made in 1971!
Same story for the Apollo 9 crew, all their WSS portraits were made in 1971, way after the mission. It's a shame the other early crews didn't do the same at later dates. |
Kevmac
Member Posts: 270
From: College Station, TX
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 04-11-2020 11:10 PM
I believe this Apollo 13 official crew portrait in business suits was taken after the mission. An official picture in the 2 days leading up to the flight was probably very low on their list of priorities. |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1527
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 04-12-2020 08:33 AM
Bit of trivia: Lovell and Haise were one of two lunar module crews to train with three different command module pilots (Anders, Mattingly and Swigert, albeit briefly). The other: Young and Duke (Swigert, Mattingly, Roosa). |
Rolf
Member Posts: 22
From: Netherlands
Registered: May 2007
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posted 04-13-2020 04:29 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Philip:
By the way, Apollo 13 CMP Jack Swigert individual WSS (White Space Suit) portrait was only made in 1971!
Swigert is wearing an A7LB suit. This is unusual for a command module pilot. |
nasamad
Member Posts: 2142
From: Essex, UK
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 04-13-2020 05:30 AM
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Originally posted by Kevmac:
I believe this Apollo 13 official crew portrait in business suits was taken after the mission.
According to the internet archive listing on this image, the publication date was 29th April 1970. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3416
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-13-2020 06:00 AM
There was a more or less informal crew photo taken two days before the flight. Then on April 22, the day of the post flight press conference, NASA photographer Bill Taub took this portrait.  And finally the crew sat down for a new official portrait, which is shown at the beginning of this thread. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3416
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-13-2020 06:16 AM
By the way, the online version of the new Apollo 13 crew portrait edited out the fact that Haise is sitting on a stack of Houston telephone directories. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3416
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-13-2020 08:02 AM
The crew re-created their official portrait during a reunion at the Museum of Natural History and Science in Louisville, Kentucky, for the 10th anniversary on April 11,1980. |
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