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Topic: Who is this "astronaut"?
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Bob M
Member Posts: 1744
From: Atlanta-area, GA USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 10-10-2010 09:55 AM
   
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BMacKinnon
Member Posts: 230
From: Waterford, MI. USA
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 10-10-2010 10:30 AM
Why it's the "Shakiest Gun in the West"! |
jut2y
Member Posts: 260
From: worthing west sussex united kingdom
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 10-10-2010 10:31 AM
Is it Donn Eisele? |
KSCartist
Member Posts: 2896
From: Titusville, FL USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 10-10-2010 10:33 AM
No it's The Relunctant Astronaut Don Knotts. |
bobslittlebro
Member Posts: 179
From: Douglasville, Ga U.S.A.
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted 10-10-2010 10:44 AM
No! Barney is the new head of security! |
micropooz
Member Posts: 1512
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 10-10-2010 10:45 AM
Did Andy let him load his bullet?  |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 10-10-2010 11:09 AM
He looks kind of reluctant. |
Bob M
Member Posts: 1744
From: Atlanta-area, GA USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 10-10-2010 11:41 AM
Yes, it's actor Don Knotts, aka Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, and was "The Reluctant Astronaut" in that 1967 movie.Don't have any info on why he was at KSC, or what Saturn V this was, but with the Reluctant Astronaut movie coming out in 1967, he was possibly there relating to the filming of that movie. So this could be the Saturn V for Apollo 4 (?), which launched in November of 1967 or he could have just been there later. |
J.L
Member Posts: 674
From: Bloomington, Illinois, USA
Registered: May 2005
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posted 10-10-2010 11:56 AM
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Originally posted by Bob M:
Don't have any info on why he was at KSC, or what Saturn V this was...
It's 500F... |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2912
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 10-10-2010 03:55 PM
J.L. is right, of course. It was the pathfinder 500F fit/check/test Apollo Saturn V launch vehicle in 1966 that never flew. It was the only Saturn V rocket of the whole series that could easily be identified by the horizontal and broken vertical square black paint markings along the S1C first stage and upper stage modules. |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 10-10-2010 04:26 PM
"Now Barn, I don't think they'll let you stand that close during launch; and even if they did I don't think those would do ya any good!" |
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