humanoidhistory:Apollo 15 astronauts Jim Irwin, Al Worden, and Dave Scott pose in their Corvettes wi
humanoidhistory:Apollo 15 astronauts Jim Irwin, Al Worden, and Dave Scott pose in their Corvettes with the training version of the lunar rover in the foreground. Awesome, no? Dave Scott looks back on this photo shoot in a 2005 email: “As I recall, this particular photo of the corvettes was taken out by the launch pad. The corvettes were stylized to essentially show the flag and set a bit of unit pride …primarily to let the troops know that we were about and paying attention to all they were doing; e.g., at almost any level of the launch complex one could look down and recognize the crew’s cars; we went to the pad often for various spacecraft activities as well as to just say hello to the folks putting the Saturn V and its payload together. Awareness, you know, something like the MFAP (Manned Flight Awareness Program, which awarded Snoopy pins to Apollo people who make special contributions. But promoting GM we were not; to own a car at the Cape was much more effective for us and less expensive to NASA than renting a car. Besides, they were fun to drive. I finally sold mine to Ed Fendell who I understand drove it many miles over many years.”(NASA) -- source link
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