Who has met who concerning Astronauts

[mikeesik]

Hello.
Since Astronauts are somewhat on the ledger, I'd like/love to know your experiences in meeting them and famous -TEST PILOTS-.
I am very intrigued.

- I did get to meet, Edgar Mitchell-Apollo 14.at the Space Science Center in my town. I missed Russian Cosmonaut-Georgy Gretchko-(sp)
-I met James Lovell at the shaw conference center in my town.
-I met MR. WALTER SCHIRRA at the Sandiego Air/Space Museum in 1991.- A PERSONAL TOUR!!!!-Idiot I am, I was in tears.

-I wish I could meet the great test pilots. Yeager, Knight, CrossField.
Mr. CrossField was here a few years ago and I DIDN'T KNOW IT !
Yes, I know he has passed on.
-Just damn.
These are some of my heros which are real heros. What are yours ?

[fanaudical]

One of the Apollo astronauts visited my elementary school to display moonrocks when I was in second grade. I don't remember which one. I got to shake his hand and asked him what it was like to poop in zero gravity. He thought that was the best question of the day.

Neil Armstrong is still one of my primary heroes from the era. Extremely talented, awesome pilot, computed orbital mechanics in his head, and used his clout after Apollo to help technology development to help medical and other fields.

[IROC]

I've met many, but probably spent the most one-on-one time with Jan Davis. I used to have meetings with her at MSFC and also spent some time with her at a KSC function. I used to go to JSC all the time and you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting an astronaut.

I have huge respect for astronauts. Each and every one of them are brilliant, charming, articulate over-achievers that have accomplished more in a few years than most people do in a lifetime.

[GH85Carrera]

Thomas P. Stafford has a neat museum in Weatherford OK. As he was working on some of the displays he came in our office. He spent many days there and brought in a lot of his photos. He is the guy that shot the photo of the earth from the moon that everyone has seen.

He is a super nice guy.

[dave 911]

I took a pee in the urinal next to an astronaut at Tinker AFB, while I was on a cross country flight when I was in the Navy . We pulled in to the transient flight line in our S-3 Viking next to a NASA T-38 - and he was in the john when I went in there....we exchanged pleasantries but I don't remember his name....

[stuartj]

I met Buzz Aldrin as a kid. I thought that was pretty damn cool, still do.

[Z-man]

As a kid, I admired the NASA space program and the astronauts. These days, when the history channel & Nat Geo airs the NASA documentaries, I tend to watch them again. Great testimony to what human determination can do.

To the OP: your thread title hurts my brain! Maybe "Astonauts you have met" would get the point across more eloquently. "Who has met who concerning Astronauts" sounds like the title of a paper of a B-average sophomore philosophy student...

Just sayin'

-Z

[matthew-s]

I saw Jim Lovell speak at an even a couple years ago. I did not get the chance to meet him, but it was very exciting to hear the Apollo 13 story from him.

[matthew-s]

Oh, I found the pic!

[ERAU944]

My buddy was making a documentary and I had a chance to interview Robert Crippen. What a great guy! Sad to see the shuttle program end, as were we all, but did he have some stories to tell!

[FPB111]

Terry Hart worked at Bell Labs when I was there. I past him in the hall a few times and sat at the same lunch table with him a couple of times. We were all talking "shop" and bs-ing not space stuff. I did not know he had been in space until someone mentioned it one day when we past him in the hall. He was a smart, articulate guy who definitely did not flaunt his "I'm an astronaut" badge.
Astronaut Bio: Terry J. Hart

[motion]

Totally jealous of you guys... they are my heroes and I have never met one. They are all truly magnificent humans.

[BRPORSCHE]

Living in Clear Lake it's not unusual to run into them basically everywhere. And once you know what to look for they are very easy to spot. Most of them are USAF and there are very stringent height restrictions so they stick out like a sore thumb.

I go to a barber shop which is just plastered with mission photos signed by the various patrons. Also, a weird thing is when you go to church on Sunday and the priest says a prayer for one of the guys in the assembly that is going up to space the next couple of weeks. Definitely weird.

[Hawkeye's-911T]

Chris Hadfield at the Abbotsford Airshow. We don't get many others visiting us up here. From watching the NATGEO type channels, they all seem to be a very special breed of cat. Pretty cool folks, IMO.

Cheers
JB

[romad]

met David Scott
met Bob Hoover many times
met a couple of SR-71 drivers

[craigster59]

I saw and met Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. They spoke at a big conference about 10 years ago.

My Grandfather used to see and talk to Chuck Yeager at the dump in Nevada City/ Grass Valley back in the 80's.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by BRPORSCHE

Most of them are USAF....

Simply not true.

I ran the Navy's selection board for astronauts for two years...each service guards the number of available slots religiously. You also have to divide the slots from mission specialists, payload folks, pilots, etc.

With a flight test background and as a former Navy Aerospace Engineering Duty Officer, I know a bunch of them. All smart as three smart things...with the mission specialists it can get to be a common sense filter.

[Erakad]

Met Chuck Yeager at a AF conference many years ago...he was the keynote speaker. Have a distant relative that's a space shuttle astronaut, did 3 total missions, commanded 1.

[BRPORSCHE]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Simply not true.

I ran the Navy's selection board for astronauts for two years...each service guards the number of available slots religiously. You also have to divide the slots from mission specialists, payload folks, pilots, etc.

With a flight test background and as a former Navy Aerospace Engineering Duty Officer, I know a bunch of them. All smart as three smart things...with the mission specialists it can get to be a common sense filter.

Whoops. Slip of the tongue! Thanks for the correction Seahawk. And to think I actually know two of them pretty well and I know for a fact that they are both US Navy.

[Icemaster]

Entire Apollo 11 crew at the Dayton Air Show a bunch of years ago. My brother actually managed to get all three autographs. My understanding was that Armstrong rarely - if at all - gives out autographs. My brother was working for Boehner at that time and managed to do it very surreptitiously when they were together prepping for the meeting on a shuttle bus to the venue. Has all three of them on a poster of the event. Can't even venture a guess what that poster is worth.