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La Chaux-de-Fonds, Suisse, 19 Août 2025

June 1966… Gemini X training 60 years ago... Michael Collins during Gemini X. Collins graduated from the United States Military Academy - West Point Class 1952, joined the US Air Force as a testpilot and was selected in NASA’s third group of astronauts in 1963. Selected as backup for Gemini VII, Collins became prime crew pilot for Gemini X in January 1966.  The first NASA photos showing Michael Collins wearing a NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster are dated April 1966 and in these June 1966 photos Collins wore a Speedmaster 105.003-63 wrist chronograph on long Velcro strap. Interestingly, during the Gemini X mission, Collins wore the NASA-issued Speedmaster on a leather bund-type strap underneath the David Clark space suit. Collins performed a 49-minutes long stand-up EVA (torso outside spacecraft) and an umbilical EVA-spacewalk to retrieve experiments from the Agena Target Vehicle. Collins main task was to perform celestial navigation with a handheld sextant. During his two spaceflight missions, Michael Collins accumulated 11 days 2 hours in space. (Photos: NASA)

🔵 PATRIMOINE | Maison Blanqui : restauration d'horloges et de pendules anciennes Nos aïeux cachaient des secrets intimes au cœur même de leurs horloges. Derrière le tic-tac austère des imposantes comtoises du XIXe siècle se dissimule une histoire humaine insoupçonnée que peu connaissent. ⏳ 𝐋'𝐚̂𝐦𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞́𝐞 𝐝𝐮 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐬. En démontant ces mécanismes séculaires, les maîtres horlogers découvrent parfois des inscriptions clandestines laissées par nos ancêtres. ⚙️ 𝐋𝐚 𝐦𝐞́𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐠𝐞́𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬. Aujourd'hui, ces pièces monumentales qui rythmaient la vie rurale sont sauvées de la désuétude. #Horlogerie #Artisanat #Art #Horloger #Horloges #Pendules #Lorraine #Patrimoine #XIXeSiècle #SavoirFaire #Histoire #France #Patrimoine #CeJourLà #FrancePittoresque 👉 Découvrez les coulisses de ce sauvetage patrimonial sur https://bit.ly/4vgNeyK

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