#stu roosa

[lonestarflight]

“Touring the Michoud Assembly Facility Friday, 20 new astronauts have a look at a Saturn V first stage booster under construction. The group also inspected the Saturn V S-IC. Five scientist-astronauts are included in the group. The 20-man team was selected by NASA last year.”

The astronauts are from Group 5 "Original Nineteen" and Group 4 "The Scientists", they are (L-R): Stu Roosa, Al Worden, Bill Pogue, Charlie Duke, Jerry Carr, Joe Engle, Vance Brand, Jack Swigert, Jim Irwin, Joe Kerwin, Paul Weitz and Ken Mattingly.

Date: May 28, 1966

Mike Acs's Collection: link

[moonwatchuniverse]

Apollo 14... Omega & Rolex together to the Moon ! During the 1971 Apollo 14 mission, the astronauts not only wore a NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster chronograph but the CMP Stu Roosa and LMP Ed Mitchell had choosen to wear their personal Rolex GMT-master 1675 pilot watch as well... Rolex and sports have always had a great link and 50 years ago “Golf”  became the sport of almost every astronaut as in 1968, astronaut chief Donald “Deke” Slayton requested that he could play with other astronauts  and  approached Golf-pro Danny Lawler to give the Apollo astronauts some  private lessons. Veteran-astronaut Alan Shepard was a keen golf player since the Mercury days and had the idea to play golf on the Moon ! On  Apollo 14, Commander Shepard carried a make-shift Iron-6 attached to a  geologic sample stick and hit two golf balls on the Moon. The make of  the Golf balls was never revealed but the Golf stick sits in the  U.S.G.A. museum in New Jersey - USA. In fact Danny Lawler was also a  representative for the Alligator-logo Lacoste shirts and that’s how the  Apollo astronauts ended up wearing Lacoste polo shirts. Note NASA astronaut/Admiral Alan Shepard wore his personal Rolex GMT-master 1675  Pepsi GMT pilot watch in this May 1973 image. (Photo: UPI)  

[lntelinside]

So, I ended up browsing @nasa's new website layout today (was looking for pictures of the Gemini 6/7 rendevous) and decided to peruse their list of former astronauts. The list was, for lack of a better word, interesting.

First up, this list was obviously written by multiple people who used different wording to say the same thing:

This is further evidenced by the list of Mercury astronauts, which use *three separate naming conventions* to describe the flights (one of which isn't common):

And then despite saying that Shepard was the first American in space, indicating that suborbital flights count, they skip over Grissom and Glenn to say this:

Pointing out the backup crew for Gemini 10 is important, but not the original prime crew for Gemini 9:

Gemini 9 also deserves roman numerals where the rest don't:

Gemini 7 apparently didn't exist:

Oh, we can't forget the grammar/typographical errors ("specialists" and the bracket):

And finally, a list of people that have the wrong missions listed:

Dave Scott joins Jim Lovell as command module pilot of Apollo 8 and leaves Apollo 9 without one:

Stu Roosa joins Jack Swigert as command module pilot of Apollo 13 and leaves Apollo 14 without one (wonder how Al Shepard got back?):

Harrison Schmitt joins Jim Irwin as lunar module pilot on Apollo 15 and becomes the last man to step foot on the moon, because Apollo 16 and 17 somehow don't count (he was actually on 17):

And finally Alan Bean joins his former commander Pete Conrad as commander of Skylab 2, leaving Skylab 3 without one:

[jennrg]

(Credit to NASA)

[humanoidhistory]

February 9, 1971 – A U.S. Navy helicopter scoops up Apollo 14 astronaut Stu Roosa after he splashed down in the Pacific Ocean along with crewmates Ed Mitchell and Alan Shepard. (NASA)

[missionspecialist]

I read somewhere a couple days ago that apparently Stu Roosa would intentionally avoid running into Alan Shepard because he was intimidated by Shep, but I can’t remember where I read this and my cursory searching hasn’t brought up any other good sources. Can any of you confirm if this is true?

[spaceflight-insider]

Our spaceflight heritage: A conversation with Fred Haise

Our spaceflight heritage: A conversation with Fred Haise

Apollo 13 Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Fred Haise, center, speaks with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, right, and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, left, at NASA’s Stennis Space Center on Dec. 7, 2021. Credit: Scott Johnson / SpaceFlight Insider   STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. — On Dec. 7, 2021, Spaceflight Insider was on site at NASA’s Stennis Space Center (SSC) in south Mississippi for a visit by the…

[from-the-earth-to-the-moon13]

(9 Feb. 1971) --- The Apollo 14 Command Module (CM), with astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander; Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot; and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot, aboard, approaches touchdown in the South Pacific Ocean to successfully end a 10-day lunar landing mission. The splashdown occurred at 3:04:39 p.m. (CST), Feb. 9, 1971, approximately 765 nautical miles south of American Samoa. The three crew men were flown by helicopter to the USS New Orleans prime recovery ship.

[gusgrissom]

Took a much-needed trip to Arlington today to visit some of our boys!!

It was super busy in the closer sections, more crowded than usual, but further out it wasn’t so bad. Today would’ve been Ron McNair’s 67th birthday so it was nice to visit the Challenger memorial.

I guess within the next few months they’ll be adding the Apollo 1 memorial that was approved and funded last summer. It’ll be nice to have them all together. I also visited John Glenn (who always gets a lot of visitors <3), Stu Roosa (who I don’t think I’ve visited before), El and Charlie of Gemini 9, Ted Freeman, C.C. Williams, and Pete, which was nice since in August I couldn’t visit him. The leaves are finally changing here in D.C. and it was a really pretty day (still too hot for October though…)

I got to sit with Gus and Roger for a long time :’) I brought my patch of the 334th Fighter Squadron, Gus’ unit in Korea, and it was a real nice, needed visit. They get a lot of visitors, too. I hope Ed gets just as many up at West Point. Here’s my favorite photo from today:

[entertainmentnerdly]

Stu Roosa was afraid of heights but still became a jet pilot and Apollo astronaut. As command module pilot, Roosa did scientific observations from orbit, and prepared to swoop down in case trouble arose when Antares rose off the lunar surface via /r/space https://ift.tt/2OHpNwt

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Every astronaut who has gone to the moon

Apollo 8 (first crewed flight around the moon)

Frank Borman (1928)

Jim Lovell (1928)

Bill Anders (1933)

Apollo 10 (landing dress rehearsal)

Tom Stafford (1930)

John Young (1930 - 2018)

Gene Cernan (1934 - 2017)

Apollo 11 (first crewed landing)

Neil Armstrong (1930 - 2012)

Michael Collins (1930 - 2021)

Buzz Aldrin (1930)

Apollo 12

Pete Conrad (1930 - 1999)

Dick Gordon (1929 - 2017)

Alan Bean (1932 - 2018)

Apollo 13 (mission aborted following explosion)

Jim Lovell (1928)*

Jack Swigert (1931 - 1982)

Fred Haise (1933)

Apollo 14

Alan Shepard (1923 - 1998)

Stu Roosa (1933 - 1994)

Ed Michell (1930 - 2016)

Apollo 15

David Scott (1932)

Al Worden (1932 - 2020)

James Irwin (1930 - 1991)

Apollo 16

John Young (1930 - 2018)*

Ken Mattingly (1936)

Charlie Duke (1935)

Apollo 17

Gene Cernan (1934 - 2017)*

Ron Evans (1933 - 1990)

Harrison Schmitt (1935)

*second flight to the moon

24 men have gone to the moon, but only 12 have walked on it

[frederick2223]

bruce baby?

099:16:16 Roosa: Good morning, Houston. 14 here.

099:16:20 McCandless: Apollo 14, Apollo 14; this is Houston. Roger. Good evening, Stu.

099:16:29 Roosa: Good evening? It's good morning, Bruce baby.

[meat-church]

Shout out to:

Michael Collins

Dick Gordon

Jack Swigert

Stu Roosa

Al Worden

Ken Mattingly

Ron Evens

These guys stayed in the Apollo capsule while orbiting the moon, while men walked on the moon. The loneliest job in the universe.

[jennrg]

(Credit to Life)

[humanoidhistory]

January 31, 1971: Apollo 14 astronauts know you can’t fly to the Moon without driving to the rocket.

[missionspecialist]

☕️ Are we still doing this? I think it's universally agreed that Michael Collins wrote the best astronaut memoir, but what is the worst book by/about astronauts? My pick is Smoke Jumper, Moon Pilot, about Stu Roosa. Written posthumously and it shows; it's a soulless, dry account of what should've been a thrilling life story. #spaceopinions

I have not read the Roosa book so I can't say if I agree from personal experience, but I will trust your judgement. The world of astronaut autobiographies has always been a bit weird to me when it comes to co-authored or posthumous ones. I guess I just don't like not knowing whose words are really whose (if that should be whom...sorry lmao), although all books go through editing so whether this is a valid concern is up for debate.