Hidden gems from the NASA photo archive

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Just for those curious about NASA astronaut photos showing Omega Speedmaster or flightmaster:
Thus far 28 portraits:
1966: Armstrong, Stafford
1971: Bean, Brand, Cernan, Duke, Engle, Shepard and Young
1972: Mattingly, Young
1974: Cernan, Slayton, Leonov (flightmaster)
1980: Schmitt, Brand, Engle, Dana, ...
most recent:
Mark Kelly (2005 = X33), Fuhrman (2025 =Moonphase) and Jonny Kim (2025 = Seamaster)
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American journalist & broadcaster Jules Bergman (1929-1987) had been hanging out a long time with the NASA astronauts, so in late 1965 Bergman ordered himself an Omega Speedmaster chronograph which he wore 1966 onwards for the rest of his life !
(Photos: NASA/ABC)
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Apollo 11 landing explained video
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/man-moon-50-years-landed-64250994

1959, November 4... NASA flight medicine.
US Air Force 2nd Lieutenant Dolores Dee O'Hara became the first staff nurse for the NASA "Mercury 7" astronauts, stationed at the AeroMed Laboratory of Hangar S at Cape Canaveral Florida.
NASA Nurse Dee O'hara assisted in pre & postflight medical checks of the astronauts. In 1963 she was officially assigned as the Office Nurse in Cocoa Beach, Florida but resigned from USAF to become a full NASA nurse to set up the Medicine Flight Clinic at the MSC in Houston Texas.
O'Hara participated in every launch in the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Apollo-Skylab and the ASTP program. In 1981, she assisted during the Columbia space shuttle mission STS-1.
In this photograph, Dee O'Hara was wearing her 1961 Elgin little diamond ladies wrist watch.
(Photo: USAF/NASA) #moonwatchuniverse #NASA
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For those who commented: She doesn't look like the nurse in the movie "The Right Stuff"...
Well the nurse in the movie was a nurse during the 1958-1959 astronaut selection process, so not Dee O'hara. The astronaut selection process took place at the Lovelace clinic in Albuquerque followed by psychological & stress tests at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio.

Yes, CASIO watches have been worn onboard the Space Shuttle since 1982 !
(photo: NASA)

After his Omega Speedmaster X33, Omega Seamaster, 3 Rolex watches (Submariner, GMT-master and Daytona), yet another wrist watch...
ISS Expedition 72/73 member NASA astronaut Jonathan "Jonny" Kim wearing his sixth different wrist watch onboard the International Space Station... 228 days & counting...
(Photo: NASA)
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Is that six watches on one tour, or multiple tours?

The Soyuz MS-27 mission to the ISS is US Navy seal, flight surgeon Jonathan "Jonny" Kim's first spaceflight and thus far he has been wearing at least 6 different watches!
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