Astronauts aboard IKE for special event

[OscarMyers]

Saw a brief piece on the astronaut visit on Navy.mil: Astronaut Legend Receives Naval Astronaut Wings Aboard 'Ike.'

Damn and to think if i would have extended two years at VFA-131 i could have been there

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

100309-N-4236E-337 NORTH ARABIAN SEA (March 9, 2010) Distinguished visitors with the Legends of Aerospace Tour watch an F/A-18E Super Hornet assigned to the Pukin Dogs of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 143 prepare to catch an arresting wire on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). The tour was sponsored by Morale Entertainment and featured astronauts Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell, Gene Cernan and aviators Bob Gilliland and retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Steve Ritchie. Dwight D. Eisenhower is on a six-month deployment as part of the on-going rotation of forward-deployed forces to support maritime security operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Chad R. Erdmann/Released)

http://www.news.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/100309-N-4236E-337.jpg

Hey Master is that you, the real tall guy in front of AC 600?

 

[HeyJoe]

Thanks to Rondebmar who alerted me to look for this event

100310-N-3595W-007 NORTH ARABIAN SEA (March 10, 2010) Astronaut legend Neil Armstrong is presented with honorary Naval Astronaut Wings by Capt. Dee L. Mewbourne, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) during a two-day visit as part of the Legends of Aerospace Tour sponsored by Morale Entertainment. Armstrong was joined by fellow astronauts Jim Lovell and Gene Cernan during the presentation aboard the ship. Dwight D. Eisenhower is on a six-month deployment as part of the on-going rotation of forward-deployed forces to support maritime security operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Gina K. Wollman/Released)

100310-N-6854D-003 NORTH ARABIAN GULF (March 10, 2010) Capt. Roy J. Kelley, commander of Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7, and Capt. Dee L. Mewbourne, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) present Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, with his Navy Astronaut wings in a ceremony aboard the ship as fellow astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, looks on. The event took place during Legends of Aerospace Tour sponsored by Morale Entertainment. Dwight D. Eisenhower is on a six-month deployment as part of the on-going rotation of forward-deployed forces to support maritime security operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jon Dasbach/Released)

100309-N-4236E-337 NORTH ARABIAN SEA (March 9, 2010) Distinguished visitors with the Legends of Aerospace Tour watch an F/A-18E Super Hornet assigned to the Pukin Dogs of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 143 prepare to catch an arresting wire on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). The tour was sponsored by Morale Entertainment and featured astronauts Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell, Gene Cernan and aviators Bob Gilliland and retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Steve Ritchie. Dwight D. Eisenhower is on a six-month deployment as part of the on-going rotation of forward-deployed forces to support maritime security operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Chad R. Erdmann/Released)

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

The article can be found here.

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=51836

 

[brownshoe]

And a few more pictures. These were attached to an email Ron forwarded to me from a friend of his. :icon_wink

(Sheeze , Ron I taught you how to post pictures! WTF? Again, good luck to Debbie on Monday.)

Steve

 

[Birdog8585]

One word, WOW! That is really cool! Thanks a ton for the pics! This will never make the headlines and if it does it will be for less than the time that it deserves.

 

[yak52driver]

Very cool. I can still remember watching Neil Armstrong hop down off the LM ladder during Apollo 11 when I was a kid. Thanks for the pictures.

 

[phrogpilot73]

So where are MB's pics?? If he emails them to me, I'll be happy to post them for him...

 

[ElCidAv8tor05]

I'm on the LAMPS det on IKE's shotgun cruiser, and it was a huge honor to meet those guys when they came over. We got Jim Lovell and Gene Cernan and those guys loved talking to us. They are all truly legends, and it was awesome that we got the opportunity to meet them as brief as it was. Of course they were all about talking to some fellow brownshoes rather than all the SWO daddy's gathered around and we were able to get a couple good pics of all the pilots with each one of them. One of our aircrewmen got them both to autograph our spare helmet which will become quite the collector's item.

 

[ElCidAv8tor05]

when Gene Cernan was on our boat (the shotgun cruiser) he said quote " there are lots of people in the current generations that are too risk averse; to make it to the moon we had to BOLD, and there's not enough of that these days". Both of those guys were awesome, and more than willing to talk for hours. You should have seen the shoes licking their chops to try to get these guys moving along to stay on schedule. They called flight quarters while the astronauts were still talking to the wardroom, prior to even talking to all the sailors on the mess decks, and one of the tour handlers asked, in a very concerned voice, if they should start heading to the hangar and our Air Boss said "don't worry, I'm pretty sure they'll wait."

 

[Homer J]

Neil Armstrong Receives Naval Astronaut Wings

USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, Arabian Gulf (March 10, 2010) - Legendary Astronaut and former Naval Aviator Neil Armstrong received a pair of honorary Naval Astronaut Wings in a small ceremony aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) March 10 in recognition for his dedicated service to the U.S. Navy and breaking new boundaries in space exploration.
Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon July 20, 1969, was aboard Eisenhower as part of the “Legends of Aerospace” tour sponsored by Morale Entertainment.

http://www.cusnc.navy.mil/articles/2010/021.html

 

[Malo83]

:thumbup_1

 

[Annalisa]

There's another thread on the subject here.

 

[UCbearcat]

Kind of off topic, but this thread makes me realize how much aviation has come out of Ohio.

Armstrong is from Ohio and currently lives about 15 miles from my house. He was also a professor at the University of Cincinnati.

John Glenn is from Cambridge, OH.

Paul Tibbets resided in Ohio later in his life and also went to UC for a short period.

And the men who started it all... The Wright Brothers are from Dayton, OH.

 

[Homer J]

Thanks, Had not seen that before.