Anchors Aweightless, Ultimate Aviators.
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This is 3 of 6 caches in the Outer Space Interservice Rivalry series. The series resides just outside of the historic Kennedy Space Center. This series is dedicated to all the military personnel who became astronauts, and their respective branches of service
This cache salutes the following U.S. Navy personnel who, through outstanding dedication, achievement, experience and education, were selected by NASA to fly to space and go "Anchors Aweightless". As Pete Conrad put it when Apollo 12 sat ready to launch, surrounded by thunderstorms, "The Navy is happy to do the all-weather testing for NASA." Scott Altman STS 99,106,109,125 Dominic A. Antonelli STS 119,132 Jeffrey S. Ashby STS 93,100,112 Michael A. Baker STS 43,52,68,81 Alan Bean Apollo 12, Skylab 3 Stephen G. Bowen STS 126,132,133 Kenneth Dwane Bowersox STS 50,61,73,82,113,ISS, SOYUZ Charles Eldon Brady Jr. STS 78 Daniel C. Brandenstein STS 8,51-G,32,49 David McDowell Brown STS 107 Daniel W. Bursch STS 51,68,77, ISS (STS108-111) Scott Carpenter Mercury 7 Manley L. Carter Jr. STS 33 Christopher Cassidy STS 127, ISS, SOYUZ Eugene Cernan Gemini 9, Apollo 10, 17 (Last man on Moon). Roger B. Chaffee (Died Apollo 1) Laurel Blair Salton Clark STS 107 Michael L. Coats STS 41-D,29,39 Pete Conrad Gemini 5, 11, Apollo 12, Skylab 2 John O. Creighton STS 51-G,36,48 Robert L. Crippen STS 1, 7, 41-C,41-G Frank L. Culbertson Jr. STS 38,51,105,108, ISS Robert L. Curbeam, Jr. STS 85,97,116 Joe F. Edwards Jr. STS 89 Ronald Evans Apollo 17 Christopher Ferguson STS 115,126,135 Michael J. Foreman STS 123,129 Stephen Frick STS 110,122 Dale A. Gardner STS 8,51-A Robert L. Gibson STS 41-B,61-C,27,47,71 Richard F. Gordon Jr. Gemini 11, Apollo 12 Dominic Lee Pudwill Gorie STS 91,99,108,123 Kenneth Ham STS 124,132 Frederick H. Hauck STS 7,51-A,26 John Bennett Herrington STS 113, Kathryn Patricia Hire STS 90,130 Brent W. Jett Jr. STS 72, 81,97,115Gregory C. Johnson STS 125 Mark Kelly STS 108,121,124, 134 Scott Kelly STS 103,118,SOYUZ,ISS (520days in space) Joseph P. Kerwin Skylab 2 Susan Leigh Still Kilrain STS 83,94 Wendy B. Lawrence STS 67,86,91,114 David C. Leestma STS 41-G,28,45 Jerry Michael Linenger STS 61,81,84, Mir Michael López-Alegría STS 73,92,113 Soyuz, ISS Jim Lovell Gemini 7,12 Apollo 8,13 Ken Mattingly Apollo 16, STS 4,51-C Jon A. McBride STS 41-G Bruce McCandless II STS 41-B, 31 William C. McCool STS 107 Michael J. McCulley STS 34 Edgar Mitchell Apollo 14 Lee Miller Emile Morin STS 110 Lisa Nowak STS 121 William A. Oefelein STS 116 Stephen S. Oswald STS 42,56,67 Alan Goodwin Poindexter STS 122,131Kenneth S. Reightler Jr. sTS 48,60 Richard N. Richards STS 28,41,50,64Kent V. Rominger 73,80,85,96,100 Mario Runco Jr. STS 44,54,77 Wally Schirra Mercury 8, Gemini 6A, Apollo 7 Winston Elliot Scott STS 72,87 Alan Shepard Mir, Apollo 14, William M. Shepherd STS 27,41,52,102, Soyuz, ISSHeidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper STS 115,126 Pierre J. Thuot STS 36,49,62 Richard H. Truly STS 2,8 David M. Walker STS 51-A,30,53,69 Paul J. Weitz Skylab 2, STS 6 James D. Wetherbee STS 32,52,63,86,102,113 Donald E. Williams STS 51-D,34 Sunita Williams STS 116,117, Soyuz,ISS Barry Eugene Wilmore STS 129, Soyuz,ISS John Watts Young Gemini 3,10 Apollo 10,16 STS 1,9 Congratulations RamenNoodles FTF!
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