Eugene Hackman passed away (1930-2025)

2025, February 26 American actor Eugene A. Hackman passed away…
We’ll remember him for amazing roles in detective movies but also for the 1969 SciFi movie “Marooned, the Sage of Ironman One !”
In that movie, Hackman was an astronaut, named Buzz Lloyd, who after five months in the space station, began to perform erratic and substandard so NASA decided to bring the crew home. The Command Module “Ironman One” thrusters failed and the crew was effectively marooned in orbit.
Not…

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Astronauts and other spacefarers’ dress watches

Don’t know if besides the Omega Speedmaster, Fortis and Rolex topics, we’re allowed another astronaut topic ?
But those were tool watch topics 😁
e.g. https://omegaforums.net/threads/ast…d-not-just-speedmasters-say-it-isnt-so.21667/


Herewith two official 1964 NASA portraits in which Scott Carpenter and Donn Eisele wore rectangular dress watches.
Note Scott Carpenter even wore the tiny watch on a steel mesh Jacoby Bender…

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Exact version of the First Omega In Space… October 1962

In analogy to our topic on the exact Speedmaster version used onboard Gemini IV ( 4 times 105.003-63 ), it’s October 2020 and I’m checking my Walter Schirra Sigma-7 photo folder…
In articles, blog postings and the third edition of Moonwatch Only, I always posted that Walter Schirra’s personal Omega Speedmaster might have been a CK2998-4 as it looks like it didn,’t have a lollipop chrono hand … a striking detail I took along when I commissioned this Walter Schirra…

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