Saturday, November 8, 2014

Who Took the Famous Photo?

Picture of the Day for 11/8/2014. I attended the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) autograph show at the Kennedy Space Center today. Hoot Gibson, a famous space shuttle astronaut, gave a presentation where he revealed that he's the one who took the iconic photographs of the very first untethered space walk in history. I've seen these pictures thousands of  times, but it never occurred to me to wonder who took the photographs. Hoot said as the shuttle pilot, he was just about the only one on board who didn't have a task associated with the space walk so he spent the time taking photographs.

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