Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There is a famous NASA photo from the Gemini mission where one astronaut(will find the names later) took a photo of the astronaut doing the space walk. The one doing the space walk has a modified Leica. They even had the same camera for the HBO series "From Earth to the Moon". If I'm wrong, I'll blame it on the Guinness. Chris Williams - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 7:44 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] john glenn's leica? At 07:02 PM 9/20/01 -0500, Christopher Williams wrote: >The Gemini missions has Leicas on board. The camera was on the first US >space walk. Are you certain of this? Zeiss Ikon trumpeted far and wide the presence of Contarex cameras on the Gemini flights and used a bunch of the photos in their adverts of the era, but I cannot recall any reference to any use by NASA or any of the Astronauts of a Leica. Glenn's camera was not a Leica: it was his own camera, a Petri or somesuch. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html