charlesduke

17 photos tagged charlesduke, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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1967

2013

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Apollo 16 Deep-Space Extravehicular Activity from NASA on The Commons uploaded 24 April
Apollo 16 Command and Service Module Over the Moon from NASA on The Commons uploaded 23 April
Apollo 16 television transmission of lunar module ascent stage liftoff from NASA on The Commons uploaded 23 April
Duke on the Descartes from NASA on The Commons uploaded 22 April
John Young from NASA on The Commons uploaded 21 April
Charles Duke from NASA on The Commons uploaded 21 April
Apollo 16 Launch from NASA on The Commons uploaded 16 April
Orion seen from the Rover from NASA on The Commons uploaded April 2025
Apollo 16 Astronauts Inspect Lunar Rover from NASA on The Commons uploaded November 2024
Spacecraft Communicators in Mission Control for Apollo 11's Lunar Touchdown from NASA on The Commons uploaded October 2024
Apollo 16 Astronauts Train for Lunar Landing Mission from NASA on The Commons uploaded February 2024
Apollo desert survival training from NASA on The Commons uploaded August 2023
Lunar Surface Ultraviolet Camera from NASA on The Commons uploaded November 2022
Astronaut Charles Duke with Lunar Rover on Moon from NASA on The Commons uploaded April 2021
Apollo 16 from NASA on The Commons uploaded April 2021

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A13_0004Jack Swigert and Ken Mattingly, Happy Campers (1967)

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Drew Granston said:
Another picture taken during this session is found at: archive.org/download/GPN-2006-000017/GPN-2006-000017.jpg
signal mirror said:
"The identity of the object blocking the face of Charlie Duke (center) is unknown." No longer ... he is holding a "Combination Survival-Light Assembly". I've seen one on display at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum on the Washington Mall in Washington D.C., and another at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Charlie has the integral emergency signaling mirror deployed here, and is holding the corner of that signal mirror in his right hand. From [1], p. 29: "The combination survival-light assembly meets the requirement to provide the crewmen with adequate survival components that would provide the most effective means of survival and yet have a minimum weight and volume. The assembly is a hand-held unit that is primarily used for visual signaling, which is accomplished by means of a strobe light, a flashlight, or a signal mirror. Additionally, the unit contains a siren whistle, a compass, fire starters, cotton balls, halogen tablets, a water receptacle, knife blades, needles, nylon cord, and fishhooks. The combination survival light was developed for use in the Gemini Program. It satisfies the Apollo postlanding requirements. This item, intended for use during an emergency postlanding situation, has not been required during any mission. However, postflight testing demonstrated that the units remain functional." [1] Apollo experience report: Crew provisions and equipment subsystem, NASA-TN-D-6737 ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19720013196 p. 28 - Figure 16 shows the survival-light assembly under "Survival lights"