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Posted: 12/31/2007 8:32:12 AM EDT

My dad was stationed aboard the USS Lake Champlain (CVS-39) in 1961 when Alan Sheppard piloted Freedom 7 as America's first man in space.

I was stationed on the Roosevelt (CVN-71) thirty years later...

He took some photos that I had never seen. They were made into slides and stuck in a closet years ago.

It is cool that he was a witness to history.
Anyhow... here ya go!

Pretty cool...

PITSNIPE OUT

Posted: 12/31/2007 8:38:42 AM EDT

[#1]

... Very cool!

Posted: 12/31/2007 8:55:30 AM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
... Very cool!

+1

Thanks for sharing the photos!

Posted: 12/31/2007 8:57:57 AM EDT

[#3]

awesome!!!!

Posted: 12/31/2007 9:23:55 AM EDT

[#4]

Awesome pics! Thanks for posting them!!!

Posted: 12/31/2007 10:07:55 AM EDT

[#5]

Can you imagine being stuck in that trash can size capsul for more than a few minuets, those guys were real troopers.

Posted: 12/31/2007 2:36:33 PM EDT

[#6]

Wow, I remember seeing Alan Sheppard on tv when he returned. Great memories, Thanks!!

Posted: 12/31/2007 8:43:13 PM EDT

[#7]

Thanks for sharing! Ahh, the era when America's might shone peacefully throughout the world. Now our sword is unsheathed, striking and cleaving at our foes. For the good ole days when we only worried about the commies.

Posted: 1/1/2008 9:05:15 AM EDT

[#8]

Those Indian Orange flight suits were always cool. Not at all tactical of course. But they weren't designed for combat use. They were designed to make it easier for rescue forces to spot a pilot who had to punch out over wilderness terrain. Thanks for sharing some great historic pics.

Posted: 1/1/2008 9:39:29 AM EDT

[#9]

That is awesome.

Posted: 1/1/2008 9:49:57 AM EDT

[#10]

Wow, great pictures thanks for sharing them with us. I had forgotten how tiny those Mercury capsules were.

Posted: 1/1/2008 9:56:11 AM EDT

[#11]

Personal photos are the best! Thanks for sharing yours.

Posted: 1/1/2008 10:03:17 AM EDT

[#12]

Contact NASA and see if they have any interest in those photos. They're very good and definitely historic.

CJ

Posted: 1/5/2008 10:00:05 AM EDT

[#13]

Great pics!

Alan Shepard was a very brave guy... those old launch boosters had a failure rate only slightly better than 40%!

Bill

Posted: 1/5/2008 10:04:28 AM EDT

[#14]

Way cool man, thanks for sharing!

Posted: 1/5/2008 2:09:37 PM EDT

[#15]

I hope you don't mind, but I sent these pictures to my dad.. back in that time frame, he worked for Sikorsky painting those same helicopters.. wouldn't be surprised if he paited those in the pictures

Posted: 1/5/2008 2:11:19 PM EDT

[#16]

Just watched "The Right Stuff" last night - great pics!
Matt

Posted: 1/11/2008 5:41:40 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
Contact NASA and see if they have any interest in those photos. They're very good and definitely historic.

CJ

+1, and maybe the Smithsonian too.

Thanks for posting them.

Posted: 1/11/2008 7:15:22 AM EDT

[#18]

Wow, that's some real history there!

Posted: 1/20/2008 10:33:40 PM EDT

[#19]

Cool Pics!

Thanks for sharing them

Posted: 1/20/2008 10:38:30 PM EDT

[#20]

Very Awesome!

Posted: 1/21/2008 7:12:27 PM EDT

[#21]

Those pics are out of this world! Sorry.

Posted: 1/22/2008 7:26:29 PM EDT

[#22]

Thanks for sharing. Please feel free to share more.

Posted: 1/22/2008 7:36:05 PM EDT

[#23]

It takes quite a set to sit atop a few tons of explosive waiting for someone to touch it off, all the time crossing your fingers that the brains on the ground got it right.

Most of the time they got it right.

We should never forget the men and women who gave there lives reaching for the stars.

I hope to be in that position someday.

Posted: 1/30/2008 6:30:44 PM EDT

[#24]

Oh lord, those are the some of the coolest pictures Ive ever seen on arfcom. THANK YOU for sharing!

Posted: 1/31/2008 1:18:40 PM EDT

[#25]

Awesome pics!

Posted: 2/3/2008 9:27:50 AM EDT

[#26]

Great pics!

Posted: 2/9/2008 9:50:50 PM EDT

[#27]

AWESOME PICS!! Thanks for sharing. I love that that incredible spacecraft is resting on a bunch of old mattresses!!!!

Posted: 2/9/2008 10:01:54 PM EDT

[#28]

Cool pics

Posted: 2/9/2008 10:05:31 PM EDT

[#29]

That is awesome

Posted: 2/9/2008 10:26:55 PM EDT

[#30]

Outstanding! Thanks for sharing.

Posted: 2/17/2008 9:21:02 AM EDT

[#31]

Sweet Pics Your dad took pics of the biggest hoax in history

Posted: 2/19/2008 6:07:03 AM EDT

[#32]

Ha!

Posted: 2/19/2008 6:11:18 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Sweet Pics Your dad took pics of the biggest hoax in history

I did not see OJ Simpson or James Brolin in any of those pictures!! WTF?!

Posted: 6/22/2008 11:41:12 AM EDT

[#34]

thanks

Posted: 6/22/2008 11:51:32 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
Sweet Pics Your dad took pics of the biggest hoax in history

here is another example of the stupidity and example of the failures of today education system.

To the OP: thanks for the pics!

Posted: 6/22/2008 12:15:48 PM EDT

[#36]

As long as the thread is bumped anyway.......

I showed this thread to all of my history/aviation/space nut family and they all said it was just the coolest thing ever. Thanks again for sharing!

Posted: 6/22/2008 12:27:22 PM EDT

[#37]

Very cool!

Posted: 6/22/2008 12:29:10 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
Sweet Pics Your dad took pics of the biggest hoax in history

His dad took picks of your 'brain'?

Posted: 6/22/2008 1:01:51 PM EDT

[#39]

looks like some poor squids had to sacrifice their matresses for the cause.

Posted: 7/15/2008 11:00:23 PM EDT

[#40]

Wonderful pics! Thanks!

Posted: 7/15/2008 11:24:55 PM EDT

[#41]

Wow, those are real history...

Posted: 7/22/2008 10:35:01 AM EDT

[#42]

Great shots!

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