Mary Shafer
April 22nd 04, 05:06 AM
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 09:37:07 -0500, "John Whisenhunt"
> wrote:
> I was rewatching the crew recovery aboard USS Ticonderoga, from Spacecraft
> Films' impressive Apollo 17 Collectors Edition. As Jack Schmitt comes up the
> mike to thank the Navy, I noticed his flightsuit nameplate has an unusual
> set of wings. They don't appear to be the current Shuttle-type civilian
> astronaut wings - the three-tailed shooting star swoosh in a simple circle,
> rather they look like they might be the NASA vector logo embossed in gold,
> between the traditional feathers on either side. Gene and Ron, as Navy
> officers, are of course wearing Naval Aviator wings with the added astro
> swoosh.
>
> Schmitt's official bio notes he completed Air Force fixed-wing training, and
> Navy helicocopter training, but obviously never having served in either
> service he wouldn't be authorized to wear military wings. I've dug around
> the Web for historic NASA wings images, but haven't seen any vector logo
> wings that aren't just souveniers. Does anyone have a
That's what the NASA research test pilots wear as a default. They can
wear their service wings, but Life Support makes up name tags with the
winged meatball. The civilian astronauts used to do the same thing.
I looked at the photos of the Dryden pilots in the gallery at
www.dfrc.nasa.gov for these wings and found
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/Pilots/Large/EC95-43228-1.jpg
which shows the six research test pilots in 1995. At least three of
them are wearing the NASA wings.
Mary
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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer
> wrote:
> I was rewatching the crew recovery aboard USS Ticonderoga, from Spacecraft
> Films' impressive Apollo 17 Collectors Edition. As Jack Schmitt comes up the
> mike to thank the Navy, I noticed his flightsuit nameplate has an unusual
> set of wings. They don't appear to be the current Shuttle-type civilian
> astronaut wings - the three-tailed shooting star swoosh in a simple circle,
> rather they look like they might be the NASA vector logo embossed in gold,
> between the traditional feathers on either side. Gene and Ron, as Navy
> officers, are of course wearing Naval Aviator wings with the added astro
> swoosh.
>
> Schmitt's official bio notes he completed Air Force fixed-wing training, and
> Navy helicocopter training, but obviously never having served in either
> service he wouldn't be authorized to wear military wings. I've dug around
> the Web for historic NASA wings images, but haven't seen any vector logo
> wings that aren't just souveniers. Does anyone have a
That's what the NASA research test pilots wear as a default. They can
wear their service wings, but Life Support makes up name tags with the
winged meatball. The civilian astronauts used to do the same thing.
I looked at the photos of the Dryden pilots in the gallery at
www.dfrc.nasa.gov for these wings and found
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/Pilots/Large/EC95-43228-1.jpg
which shows the six research test pilots in 1995. At least three of
them are wearing the NASA wings.
Mary
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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer