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Topic: Photo of the week 172 (February 16, 2008)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 02-16-2008 03:02 AM
   
 George Dowling, consultant pilot for Grumman Aircraft Corporation, prepares to participate in a test of support equipment in the Kennedy Space Center altitude chamber in August 1968. Also participating was astronaut Fred Haise. These tests were in support of the AS-503 mission, which then was still a high-altitude lunar module mission. The LM was to be moved into the altitude chamber for manned runs later that month, but by then it was bumped to AS-504 (Apollo 9). |
APG85
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Registered: Jan 2008
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posted 02-16-2008 12:10 PM
Neat picture. I think thats the first time I've seen the cover velcrowed around the connections on the front of the suit... |
Henk Boshuijer
Member Posts: 450
From: Netherlands
Registered: May 2007
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posted 02-16-2008 12:41 PM
It looks like he borrowed Vance Brand's spacesuit. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 02-17-2008 01:39 AM
Well spotted, Henk. He is wearing the spacesuit that Vance Brand used during the Apollo 2TV-1 vacuum chamber test in June 1968. |
SpaceDust
Member Posts: 115
From: Louisville, Ky USA
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 02-17-2008 10:38 AM
It's hard for me to tell but, is that another NASA logo on his left side that is upside down? Can someone tell me what that is? |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 02-17-2008 10:50 AM
It says 2TV1 on it, going along with Ed's posting above about the prior suit use. |
Henk Boshuijer
Member Posts: 450
From: Netherlands
Registered: May 2007
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posted 02-17-2008 06:01 PM
Is this George Dowling still alive? Was it a common practise that pilots did this kind of work? I mean, it must be frustrating for a pilot to do some kind of astronaut test job ...and not being selected as an astronaut (assuming he wanted to be an astronaut). |
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