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“Garbed as vaudevillians, Grissom and Shepard engage in a bit of horseplay during the early days of the Mercury program. When Grissom gave the photos to [NASA artist] Cece Bibby, she asked him what they were up to. He just said, ‘Fun and games, baby, fun and games.’”
–Ray E. Boomhower, Gus Grissom: The Lost Astronaut
January 27th, 1967 – 1 p.m.
Gus Grissom seen through the window of the spacecraft during Apollo 1 tests, October 1966.
John and company during post-flight parades (Gemini 3, Apollo 10, & STS-1)
Doesn’t seem too impressed in the second one…….
Gus Gradually Violates John’s Personal Space: A Photographic Essay
1930s-1940s John
1950s-pre NASA 1960s John
Spending this Sunday evening thinking abt how Gus and Deke were best friends, wore matching shirts, built fences and played with bunny rabbits together, flew cross country for fun and played handball and carried bears seven miles through the woods. Deke needed Gus’ help learning to swim, Gus wanted Deke’s help when he almost drowned after Liberty Bell 7, Deke titled his memoir after a Gus-attributed quote in The Right Stuff and also used the same style as Gus’ book title (Gemini! and Deke!). Thinking about these absolute buddies.
“He was kind of the perfect dad. He was the kind of person who could do anything if he went after it, and he would make you feel like that, too.”
Ed White with his son, Eddie, at a post-Gemini IV visit to Brooks AFB, June 1965
Gus inspecting a Mercury capsule, photographed by Bill Taub, circa 1961
“Catalina has always been known as the land of miles and miles… of miles and miles.”
“The East Rosecrans Gang in The Shoot-Out,” aka NASA astronauts on very serious business in Catalina, 1972
The Gemini 4 crew studies at the Morehead Planetarium at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
John Young comes to see you.
I saw this footage and I had to make it into a gif 🥰😎🥺 because... I love JWY
November 14, 1930 … Happy 90th birthday astronaut Edward White ! Today would have been the 90th birthday of NASA astronaut Edward H. White, who made the first US spacewalk in June 1965. A true American hero, Ed White was selected in NASA astronaut Group 2 but he died in the Apollo 1 pad fire in January 1967. This photo shows astronaut White holding a picture of JFK while attending a ceremony at Brooks Air Force Base in June 1965. A week after the Gemini IV spaceflight mission, Edward White still wore one of his pair of NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster 105.003-63 chronograph on a velcro strap. (Photo: USAF/UPI)
December 1966 - January 1967 NASA astronaut Edward White LtColonel Ed White and his wife Pat after a relaxing Christmas holiday as the astronaut would start preparations for the first mission of NASA’s manned Apollo Moon program. The couple spent Christmas time and New Year at their home near Houston - Texas. However, on January 27, 1967 a cabin fire destroyed the Apollo 1 Command Module during a launch rehearsal test killing the three astronauts; Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee. Photo shows Ed White wearing a NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster 105.003 chronograph on a steel mesh JB champion bracelet… note that the chronograph hand was running ! (Photo: NASA/WBESS)
The New Nine, together again.
This week on NASA’s Next Top Model: Desert Survival Edition…
The New Nine take part in water survival training, September 1963
Deke and Ed at North American Aviation, 1966
Various Space Race era gag crew portraits, because in a business as risky as spaceflight, you need a sense of humor
(use captions if needed)
I wish I could see you smile again, Neil
Neil Armstrong in mission control on Christmas Eve 1968 as Apollo 8 orbited the moon.
Extravehicular. 2019
Neil Armstrong Portrait. 2018
https://society6.com/artist-studio/artwork/18638060
Professor Armstrong teaching a class at the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering, 1974
you had me at the first line
Ed…………🥺🥺
Ed White has a lot to communicate to the engineers at Downey during an Apollo camera test, May 1966
Reminders