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Offline luke strawwalker

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Re: Is it possible to identify this... humm, astronauts?
« Reply #20 on: 12/02/2007 06:35 am »
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Satori - 19/11/2007  11:52 AM

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Gene DiGennaro - 19/11/2007  11:20 AM

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Col. Steve Austin, Major Matt Mason, and an exchange pilot from SHADO!

Great! Thank you very much Gene!!!!!!!!!!!  :laugh:

This photo had to be taken before Col. Steve Austin's tragic accident in the aerodynamic lifting body in which he was critically injured, would it not??  

"Gentlemen, we can rebuild him... We have the technology....  We can make him BETTER, STRONGER, FASTER....... (Oscar Goldman)"  

I guess that's a lot better than "BETTER, FASTER, CHEAPER (Dan Goldin)"  

Hhahahahahahhaha..... LOL:)  ROFL!  OL JR :)
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RE: Is it possible to identify this... humm, astronauts?
« Reply #21 on: 12/06/2007 06:35 pm »
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Satori - 19/11/2007  5:30 AM

For a long time I have this photo but I don't know how the identification of the astronauts (I think they are) on the photo.

Kris Stoever (Scott Carpenter's daughter/co-author) posted to cS today that she had unearthed a photo of her father wearing a similar-in-appearance suit at the Johnsville centrifuge, circa 1963.

The photo can be seen on Carpenter's website.

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Re: Is it possible to identify this... humm, astronauts?
« Reply #22 on: 11/24/2010 11:59 pm »
I think I may have found the origin for the photo in the OP. While looking through the NTRS I located a document from 1966 discussing the testing of a three man couch for possible use in the Apollo program. Some of the pictures inside show the same 'astronauts'.

See pdf page 32 of 'The design and testing of a three-man couch platform for possible use in the Apollo command module'

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700076274_1970076274.pdf

The pressure suits shown are identified as being:

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Space suits as necessary to fit subjects and support these tests. These pressure suits were the early prototype Hamilton Standard suits, commonly called Hecmar suits, with a 28-30 inch shoulder width.
« Last Edit: 11/27/2010 11:26 pm by Graham2001 »

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