posted March 18, 2005 02:01 AM               

Inside the Space Shuttle Mission Control (Building 30), Cunningham was invited to take a seat at the capcom station and was greeted by a sign on the projection screen welcoming him to the center.

A close-up of Cunningham, seated next to astronaut Ken Ham.

Silhouetted against the projection screens at the front of the ISS Mission Control room, Cunningham speaks with capcom/astronaut Alvin Drew and Flight Director John McCullough.

posted March 18, 2005 02:09 AM               

Walt Cunningham inside the Historic Mission Control, where his Apollo 7 mission was monitored and directed. The plaque bearing the mission insignia Cunningham designed and which honors the flight's success can be seen along the back wall, far right.

Cunningham looking at the commander's station on the flight deck of the Orbiter Crew Compartment Trainer in Building 9A. Though horizontal at the time, the trainer has the ability to be oriented vertically to replicate launch orientation.

Cunningham with astronaut Tim Kopra at the Sonny Carter Training Facility's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. On the television monitors and inside the nearby immense pool were ISS Expedition 12 crewmembers training for a future spacewalk.

Cunningham approaches the towering door to the Space Environment Simulation Lab's vacuum chamber, where all Apollo command and service modules, Apollo lunar modules, spacesuits for extra-vehicular activity, the Skylab/Apollo telescope mount system, various Space Shuttle systems, the Apollo/Soyuz docking module and various large scale scientific satellite systems were tested.

posted March 18, 2005 07:05 AM               

I think that should be traded for one gen-you-ine Neil Armstrong autograph on the piece of my choice!

Nice photos, Rob!