Buzz Aldrin uses Corvette for Moon Ride

[XfireZ51]

Here he is arriving for moon shot prep

[KILLSHOTS]

That's not a real Corvette. It only appears to be a Corvette. This shot was actually taken in a special studio in the Nevada desert using highly specialized taxpayer-funded lighting and cameras. Corvettes were never actually made.

[XfireZ51]

Originally Posted by KILLSHOTS

That's not a real Corvette. It only appears to be a Corvette. This shot was actually taken in a special studio in the Nevada desert using highly specialized taxpayer-funded lighting and cameras. Corvettes were never actually made.

Oh so that is the fabled "Capricorn Corvette"!

[WB9MCW]

Astronaut Alan Bean drives his old Corvette again

http://youtu.be/uarNyD1L1lM

Corvettes have been associated with America’s space program beginning with Alan Shepard’s sub-orbital Mercury flight in May of 1961 and continuing into the Apollo moon landing program. Astronauts were offered a special Chevrolet plan in which they were given the use of any Chevrolet automobile for a year at the very nominal cost of $1. Many chose Corvettes, but only the crew of Apollo XII elected to have their 1969 Corvettes customized with identical paint schemes.

http://www.examiner.com/article/apol...ip-to-the-moon

[gbrtng]

stylish pocket protector ...

[XfireZ51]

Brian,

Do you recall what that paint scheme was about?

[WB9MCW]

Originally Posted by XfireZ51

Brian,

Do you recall what that paint scheme was about?

Furthermore, the crew decided a distinctive paint scheme was needed; since Alan was the artist among the three he was put in charge of that project. Bean explained during an interview that, “Pete probably came up with the idea. Due to the heavy training schedule there was little time to give much thought to it, but I did present three or four ideas to Jim Rathmann.” Rathmann took it from there. As Bean recalled, “Jim painted one of the cars. The first paint job may have had more black – the hood may have been black. We did not really like it, but Jim was patient and repainted the car perhaps two more times.” The last presentation resulted in thin white pinstripes being added to divide the black from the gold. Some of the finer details of the project have been forgotten, though, over the last three decades; Capt. Bean could not recall why black was chosen since blue and gold are Navy colors.

From
http://c1toc3vettes.blogspot.com/201...-corvette.html

[XfireZ51]

Personally not a fan of the scheme, but it is historic now, so that's that.