Great Stuff I have that one and the Gemini Speedy, and your post got me to digging through the Apollo Collection ( ah yes another rabbit hole). space artist Kim Poor and his gallery run a "Spacefest" every year and all the ( remaining ) Mercury, Gemini, Apollo Astronauts are there. At his gallery they have private events for their long time customers and sadly Kim has MS so can no longer paint, This was quite awhile ago before these gents passed away
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From Left to Right: with much younger versions of me and
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Andrew Chaiken ( wrote From the Earth to the moon. Was later made into the mini-series of the same name
Richard Gordon : Gemini 12, and Command Module Pilot for Apollo 12. Sharon loves it because he wanted to take her home with him He lived in Tucson.... So of course I use that by saying I am the only guy that had an Apollo Astronaut flirt with my wife LOL.... Damn Navy guys!
Alan Bean: Apollo 12 Lunar Module pilot and Skylab-3, Real Funny Guy. and a great artist as well.
Gene Cernan: Gemini 12, Apollo 7 and Commander of Apollo 14 and the last man to walk on the moon. A gracious gentlemen. If you look at his wrist he is wearing an Omega X-33, as he was on the research team for a manned Mars mission. We feel honored to have met and spent time with them. All of them very down to earth, and being astronauts they were short in stature, so I felt good, HAHA
Good memories re-lived. Thanks for posting