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Not really. Apollo 1 crew during water egress training, June 1966

Interesting! I looked at the photo and noted the cars in the background. Those were around some time ago.
Thanks for the photo!

LabRat

Nice grin on Gus's face. RIP. For the rest of humanity's existence, they will be remembered. On their shoulders, other giants stood.

On rafts, left to right: Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, Ed White. RIP guys!

treadlightly wrote:Nice grin on Gus's face. RIP. For the rest of humanity's existence, they will be remembered. On their shoulders, other giants stood.

It was well known that Gus was not a good swimmer, so he must have been in a really good mood.
Also the water in the pool is very shallow compared to the Atlantic Ocean.

Keith B wrote:On rafts, left to right: Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, Ed White. RIP guys!

I believe that this picture was taken at Ellington Field.

Not to hijack the thread, but this is a shot of the Neutral Buoyancy Lab where the shuttle crews trained.
It is an amazing sight. There are a full size mock-ups of the Space Shuttle and the ISS underwater!

Theses guys prove that almost anything can be accomplished with the right amount of brains, bravery, and hold my beer and watch this.

jason812 wrote:Theses guys prove that almost anything can be accomplished with the right amount of brains, bravery, and hold my beer and watch this.

If any group of people can be called "heroes" it is them.

I wonder who the other four guys are, the three swimmers and the guy holding the tether to the capsule?

jason812 wrote:Theses guys prove that almost anything can be accomplished with the right amount of brains, bravery, and hold my beer and watch this.

But, but, what does it mean or matter without the "social justice?"

At one time all of my neighbors were either working with astronauts, designing storage on the shuttle or doing other things with them...my wife worked on the space shuttle...

One of my cigar smoking buddies was astronaut Charlie Carmarda, look him up on google.

ELB wrote:I wonder who the other four guys are, the three swimmers and the guy holding the tether to the capsule?

If it was the same as Navy water survival training, those other swimmers are trained divers to react in the case of real emergencies.

I was glad to see Gus Grissom was exonerated when his capsule was recovered from the deep a few years back. "The Right Stuff" was not kind to him.

oohrah wrote:

ELB wrote:I wonder who the other four guys are, the three swimmers and the guy holding the tether to the capsule?

If it was the same as Navy water survival training, those other swimmers are trained divers to react in the case of real emergencies.

I was glad to see Gus Grissom was exonerated when his capsule was recovered from the deep a few years back. "The Right Stuff" was not kind to him.

I didn't notice anything about the capsule being recovered and Grissom being exhonerated. When did that happen?

OldCurlyWolf wrote:

oohrah wrote:

ELB wrote:I wonder who the other four guys are, the three swimmers and the guy holding the tether to the capsule?

If it was the same as Navy water survival training, those other swimmers are trained divers to react in the case of real emergencies.

I was glad to see Gus Grissom was exonerated when his capsule was recovered from the deep a few years back. "The Right Stuff" was not kind to him.

I didn't notice anything about the capsule being recovered and Grissom being exhonerated. When did that happen?

The Liberty Bell 7 was recovered July 20, 1999.

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9907/20/g ... apsule.01/

http://articles.latimes.com/1999/dec/12/news/mn-43115

If you remember Car Talk, this was a classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moAqzM4ptm8