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June 6, 2020, Congratz 88th birthday to astronaut David R. Scott! David Scott, a West Point graduate who joined the Air Force in 1954, served as a fighter pilot at Soesterberg - the Netherlands during the height of the Cold War before graduating as Test pilot of class 62-C at the Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force base. The photo shows Scott in the cockpit of a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. Scott was selected in NASA astronaut group 3 and went on to fly on Gemini VIII, Apollo 9 and the 7th person to walk on the Moon during Apollo 15. In 1993, David Scott was inducted in the US Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy space center - Florida. (Photo: USAF)

May 1963, Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper is seen during pre-flight checks in the NASA capsule simulator at Cape Canaveral. Leroy Cooper wore his modified full-body Mercury pressure suit and both his personal wrist watches strapped over the suit on steel mesh bracelets; an Accutron Astronaut tuning fork GMT pilotwatch at his right wrist and an Omega Speedmaster CK2998-4 manual winding chronograph at his left wrist. (Photo: NASA)

April 16, 1972 Launchday for Apollo 16 and a time check for Command Module Pilot Thomas Ken Mattingly, who was scrapped from Apollo 13 in April 1970. During Apollo 16, Mattingly broke the record for a solo spaceflight as he stayed solo in lunar orbit for 81 hours 40 minutes. The astronauts wore NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster chronographs. (Photo: NASA)

1969 onwards, Apollo astronauts returning from a lunar mission made a post-mission World Goodwill Tour to meet foreign cultures and people. By 1971, the Apollo 15 Goodwill tour brought the crewmembers to several European countries, among which Germany, where the astronauts were invited skiing on the slopes of the 2962 meter high ZugSpitze, the highest mountain in the Wetterstein gebirge & Germany. Note David Scott wore an Omega Speedmaster chronograph, with running chrono hand, during skiing activities with fellow Apollo 15 crewmembers James Irwin and Alfred Worden. (Photo: NASA/ZüdDeutsche)

May 7, 1965 the Gemini IV astronauts were photographed at Cape Canaveral going through training activities listings. It was the first good photograph showing astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White wearing a NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster 105.003-63 chronograph on a steel mesh JB Champion bracelet. Originally the Extra Vehicular Activity was only planned as a standup-EVA and the complete schedule for a full exit EVA-spacewalk was kept secret. Next opportunity to clearly spot the Omega Speedmaster chronographs occurred on June 1, 1965 during the medical examination... (Photo: NASA)

Happy 92th Birthday astronaut Frank Borman ! Borman was selected in NASA group 2 in 1962 and flew on Gemini VII (December 1965) and Apollo 8 (December 1968). This 1970 official portrait shows him wearing a Rolex DateJust on Jubilee bracelet. Official NASA individual portraits and crewphotos are a great source to look for watches. In fact each official portrait or crew photograph was taken in two ways; smiling and non-smiling. The latter would be used in case of a mishap, accident or disaster. Borman left NASA in June 1970.

Celebrating 75 years United States Air Force Test Pilot School. Just 60 years ago TPS class 59-C officers pose near a North American F-86 Sabre jet. Note future NASA astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White, backrow 3rd & 4th from left, who would both fly on Gemini IV in 1965. From 1961 onwards the school added the Aerospace Research Pilot Course, whin spun off at least 25 future astronauts. 40 years ago, Tom wolfe wrote “The Right Stuff” about test pilots engaged in U.S. postwar experimental high-speed rocket-powered aircraft testing, pushing the envelope...  (Photo: USAF Academy/NASA)

November 1966, USAF testpilot & astronaut group 3 member Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin made his first spaceflight aboard the Gemini XII mission. Aldrin, a USMA West Point graduate and MIT PhD specialized in spacewalk techniques, earned him the nickname "Dr. Rendezvous" from fellow astronauts, is pictured here during the November 13, 1966 spacewalk as the capsule was docked to the Atlas/Agena Target Vehicle. Aldrin performed two standup EVAs, lasting 3.5 hours and one full EVA lasting 2 hours 6 minutes. On November 15, 1966 after 3 days 22 hours, the Gemini 12 crew (James Lovell & Edwin Aldrin) was recovered by USS Wasp off the East coast of the USA. Note the NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster on long black velcro at his right forearm. (Photo: NASA)