g03_v_bw_o_n (65-H-404)
“Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, command pilot for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s GT-3 flight, reclines on a couch in the Pad 16 Ready Room during pre-flight checks prior to going to Pad 19 for flight simulations in the Gemini-3 spacecraft. Joe Schmitt, suit technician from Manned Spacecraft Center’s Crew Systems Division, stands by to assist Grissom. The flight simulations were conducted Thursday, March 18.”
I wonder if that's Al Rochford in the background.
If not for J. L. Pickering/John Bisney, in the form of their book “Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini: A Rare Photographic History” via Google Books, I wouldn't have known that this was actually a double-wide trailer. Specifically:
“…in a double-wide trailer installed at LC-16 to suit the crew.” Additionally, per the book "The trailer (which included two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a small kitchen) was used to minimize the crew transfer time since LC-19 was just four hundred yards north of LC-16, a former Titan missile pad. By some accounts, it also satisfied Grissom's desire to keep the media at bay."
Keep in mind, this was to be the first manned Gemini mission, in a heated space race, during the first Cold War, with the vile & depraved Soviets, so I’m sure press coverage was particularly intense.
The above excerpts, along with an excellent photo (amongst many others) of the Astronauts talking to reporters in the “Pad 16 Ready Room”, at/from:
books.google.com/books?id=_CBADAAAQBAJ&pg=PA87&lp...
Credit: Google Books and the aforementioned gentlemen.
This would look to be taken during the same interview in the Ready Room:
www.alamy.com/stock-image-gemini-3-prime-crew-young-and-g...
Sadly, yet another teammate in mankind’s greatest adventure that left us - the aforementioned Joe Schmitt, assisting John Young, just as he did Alan Shepard...and pretty much every Astronaut up until 1981/82.
Continue to Rest In Peace Good Sir and Thank You:
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum38/HTML/002111.html
Additionally, everything (and more) than you want to know about what might actually not be a "Ready Room", at least according to Bob Sieck:
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/000473.html
Credit: collectSPACE website
Grissom is wearing his Omega Speedmaster, showing a time of 13:45. See also:
www.truefacet.com/guide/omega-speedmaster-nasa-space-prog...
Credit: “TrueFacet” website
Oh yeah, Young appears to be sitting in the same art-deco chair as Grissom:
www.alamy.com/stock-photo-nasa-gemini-titan-3-prime-crew-...
g03_v_bw_o_n (65-H-404)
“Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, command pilot for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s GT-3 flight, reclines on a couch in the Pad 16 Ready Room during pre-flight checks prior to going to Pad 19 for flight simulations in the Gemini-3 spacecraft. Joe Schmitt, suit technician from Manned Spacecraft Center’s Crew Systems Division, stands by to assist Grissom. The flight simulations were conducted Thursday, March 18.”
I wonder if that's Al Rochford in the background.
If not for J. L. Pickering/John Bisney, in the form of their book “Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini: A Rare Photographic History” via Google Books, I wouldn't have known that this was actually a double-wide trailer. Specifically:
“…in a double-wide trailer installed at LC-16 to suit the crew.” Additionally, per the book "The trailer (which included two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a small kitchen) was used to minimize the crew transfer time since LC-19 was just four hundred yards north of LC-16, a former Titan missile pad. By some accounts, it also satisfied Grissom's desire to keep the media at bay."
Keep in mind, this was to be the first manned Gemini mission, in a heated space race, during the first Cold War, with the vile & depraved Soviets, so I’m sure press coverage was particularly intense.
The above excerpts, along with an excellent photo (amongst many others) of the Astronauts talking to reporters in the “Pad 16 Ready Room”, at/from:
books.google.com/books?id=_CBADAAAQBAJ&pg=PA87&lp...
Credit: Google Books and the aforementioned gentlemen.
This would look to be taken during the same interview in the Ready Room:
www.alamy.com/stock-image-gemini-3-prime-crew-young-and-g...
Sadly, yet another teammate in mankind’s greatest adventure that left us - the aforementioned Joe Schmitt, assisting John Young, just as he did Alan Shepard...and pretty much every Astronaut up until 1981/82.
Continue to Rest In Peace Good Sir and Thank You:
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum38/HTML/002111.html
Additionally, everything (and more) than you want to know about what might actually not be a "Ready Room", at least according to Bob Sieck:
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/000473.html
Credit: collectSPACE website
Grissom is wearing his Omega Speedmaster, showing a time of 13:45. See also:
www.truefacet.com/guide/omega-speedmaster-nasa-space-prog...
Credit: “TrueFacet” website
Oh yeah, Young appears to be sitting in the same art-deco chair as Grissom:
www.alamy.com/stock-photo-nasa-gemini-titan-3-prime-crew-...