Re: Astronauts Gone Wild available on DVD

From: Rick DeNatale (denatale_at_ctc.net)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:17:01 -0400

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:38:15 -0400, Mike Flugennock wrote:

>> http://www.lunarlegacies.com/images/Apollo%20Auto/ap1-b.jpg
>
> Whoa. Creepy. Is this a grim inside joke of some kind? I remember Schirra,
> in an interview on PBS, discussing how some of the guys were ready state
> outright that they just didn't want to fly in Block I. Then, of course,
> was Grissom and the lemon on the Block I CM.

This was the very photo which figured in the Apollo 1 episode
of From the Earth to the Moon.

In the film, the crew presented autographed copies of this photo to Joe
Shea of NASA, and Harrison Storms of North American with an inscription
reading something like: "It's not that we don't trust you, Joe and Stormy,
but we've decided to appeal to a higher authority!"

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