Pete_v_bw_o_n (ca. 1964/65, unnumbered World Book Encyclopedia Sci. Svc. Inc. photo)
“Even without his favorite horse, “Rancho,” Pete Conrad still has that cowboy look – even on a geological field trip, part of NASA’s training curriculum.”
From another press slug:
“A WESTERN STAR HE ISN’T—Looking like an actor in a western movie, Astronaut Charles Conrad is shown during a geological training trip to Grand Canyon, Ariz., during the spring of 1964. Next Thursday, suited up quite a bit differently, Conrad will get aboard Gemini 5 spacecraft with fellow astronaut Gordon Cooper for a proposed 8-day orbital flight.”
As you'd expect from Pete, he's got it going on: longhorn motif belt buckle, lensatic compass/case next to it, geologist's hammer on the left hip & entrenching tool (maybe) on the right.
Move over Dr. H. H. Schmitt, there’s another ‘sheriff’ in town. 😉 Anyone get it? As in “geo” sheriff…for geologist. Schmitt being a Geologist by profession & the first one on the moon.
Waviness along the bottom periphery of the photo paper due to the copious amount of military-grade adhesive used to affix the press slug on the verso.
Per the following informative & amusing document, I'm assuming the photo to have been taken either 5/6 or 12/13 March 1964:
pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1190/of2005-1190_figs_001-019.pdf
Credit: ALSJ website
Pete_v_bw_o_n (ca. 1964/65, unnumbered World Book Encyclopedia Sci. Svc. Inc. photo)
“Even without his favorite horse, “Rancho,” Pete Conrad still has that cowboy look – even on a geological field trip, part of NASA’s training curriculum.”
From another press slug:
“A WESTERN STAR HE ISN’T—Looking like an actor in a western movie, Astronaut Charles Conrad is shown during a geological training trip to Grand Canyon, Ariz., during the spring of 1964. Next Thursday, suited up quite a bit differently, Conrad will get aboard Gemini 5 spacecraft with fellow astronaut Gordon Cooper for a proposed 8-day orbital flight.”
As you'd expect from Pete, he's got it going on: longhorn motif belt buckle, lensatic compass/case next to it, geologist's hammer on the left hip & entrenching tool (maybe) on the right.
Move over Dr. H. H. Schmitt, there’s another ‘sheriff’ in town. 😉 Anyone get it? As in “geo” sheriff…for geologist. Schmitt being a Geologist by profession & the first one on the moon.
Waviness along the bottom periphery of the photo paper due to the copious amount of military-grade adhesive used to affix the press slug on the verso.
Per the following informative & amusing document, I'm assuming the photo to have been taken either 5/6 or 12/13 March 1964:
pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1190/of2005-1190_figs_001-019.pdf
Credit: ALSJ website