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70 years ago… SETP into existence! 1955, September 14 saw the formation of the SETP - Society of Experimental Test Pilots and the first meeting on September 29 brought seventeen test pilots of the "Testy Test Pilots Society" together but the name was soon changed into SETP. Well-known test pilots like Robert Hoover and Scott Crossfield were instrumental in the SETP creation with Crossfield becoming the driving force in the USAF and NASA’s hypersonic flight research X-15 spaceplane program. In 1959 Crossfield was the first to fly the North American Aviation X-15, testing the spaceplane 14 times. This 1959 photo shows Scott Crossfield wearing his beloved Rolex GMT-master 6542 Pepsi pilot watch, which he wore between 1958 and at least 1968. In October 1967, a Rolex GMT-master 1675, worn by test pilot William “Pete” Knight during X-15 flights 188 & 190 became the fastest pilot watch (Mach 6.7 = 7232 Km/Hr) and the first “Rolex-in-space” flying above 85 kilometers as 50 miles was considered space for USAF pilots! (photos: USAF/AP/AFFTC)

September 14, 1955 ... SETP founded This 1959 photo shows American test pilot Scott Crossfield, who became the first president of SETP, during a press briefing on the North American Aviation X-15 hypersonic rocket plane. In 1950 Crossfield joined NACA, which became NASa by October 1958. Scott Crossfield was a Naval aviator turned testpilot and became the first to fly at twice the speed of sound in November 1953 with the Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket. Crossfield survived an X-15 ground test explosion and flew 14 of the 199 hypersonic test flights. Note Crossfield wore his personal Rolex GMT-master Pepsi pilot watch, which can be seen on his wrist in photographs taken between 1958 and 1968. Crossfield died in an aircraft crash in April 2006. (Photo: AP/NASA)

NASA portrait S76-28475 shows Fred Haise holding a scale model of a Rockwell International space shuttle orbiter. After Haise flew as LMP on Apollo 13, he was assigned to the ALT - Approach & Landing Test flights for the Space Transportation System program. Between February & October 1977, 4 astronauts flew 8 captive and 5 free gliding flights with shuttle prototype orbiter named “Enterprise”. These ALT flights started from the topside of the SCA - Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a modified NASA Boeing 747. Note astronaut Haise was wearing a SETP - Society of Experimental Test Pilots patch on his shoulder and his personal Rolex Oyster Perpetual wristwatch on a jubilee bracelet. (Photo: NASA)

50 years ago… Apollo 14 another 3 Rolex watches to the Moon ! US Navy Captain Alan Bartlett Shepard was Commander onboard Apollo 14 Command Module “Kitty Hawk” and Lunar Lander “Antares” aimed to the Fra Mauro highlands region on the nearside of the Moon. Together with Ed Mitchell, Alan Shepard stayed 34 hours on the lunar surface conducting 9 hours Moonwalking, collecting 42 kilograms of lunar samples & Moon rocks. Besides his NASA-issued #75 Omega Speedmaster 145.012 chronograph, Shepard might have taken his personal Rolex GMT-master 1675 Pepsi bezel pilot watch on this historical Apollo 14 mission. He often wore his favorite Pepsi bezel pilot watch during Apollo training between early 1969 and January 1971. All NASA astronauts involved in Apollo 14 training (Shepard, Cernan, Mitchell, Engle, Roosa, Evans and Collins) have been photographed wearing a Rolex GMT-master pilot watch during training. On August 25, 1971, Alan Shepard was promoted to Rear Admiral, the very first astronaut to reach that one-star officers’ rank! (Photo: NASA/USN Inc)

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I should call my mom and see if she has it or pictures of it.