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Originally Posted by ravens_cry
My favorite example of astronut sense of humour was that the backup crew for apollo 14 had made it's patch, a parody of the official one. http://genedorr.com/patches/Apollo/Ap14.html
Well the backup crew was the one of the last to have acess to the of the lunar module before lift off, and they sowed a whole bunch all over the place, even in the 'lunar rickshaw".
Arguably the greatest prank ever done in space. Unless anyone knows another one. |
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Originally Posted by JayUtah
They knew that they were being recorded.
After the Apollo 10 slip-up when the LM went briefly out of control, the crews were warned to watch their language.
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both involved Eugene Cernan. Quite a character, and by far the best story teller/writer of the Apollo bunch.
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