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Upon request, a higher resolution photo of the NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster 105.012 chronograph #57 for Apollo 12 CMP Richard Gordon, shown as it was on display at the former Omega Museum in Bienne - Switzerland. US Navy Captain Gordon passed away on monday 7th November 2017, aged 88...   R.I.P. (Photo: MoonwatchUniverse)

Vintage OMEGA Speedmaster Pro Calibre 321 Moonwatch In Stainless Steel Circa 1960s - https://omegaforums.net

Cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov enjoyed his Omega Speedmaster chronographs. 1978 Soyuz 27 training photos of Vladimir Dzhanibekov show him wearing a “ 125 years Omega Speedmaster ” reference ST 378.0801. The “Speedy 125″, issued in 1973,  was the first chronometer-certified wrist chronograph. Dzhanibekov certainly wore a Speedmaster 145.022  on Soyuz 39 to Salyut 6 in March 1981, the “Intercosmos” mission with Mongolia. This image shows Dzhanibekov wearing a “ 125 years Omega Speedmaster “ during the Soyuz T-6 mission aboard the Salyut 7 space station in June 1982... (Photo: RKA/TASS)

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March 3, remembering NASA astronaut USAF Col. William Pogue From 1955 to 1957, Pogue was a member of the USAF “Thunderbirds” aerobatics team flying the F-100 Super Sabre. In 1966, USAF test pilot William Reid Pogue was selected in NASA Group 5 and flew 84 days onboard the Skylab space station between November 1973 and February 1974. Pogue passed away in 2014. Most people remember his Seiko 6139 automatic chronograph with striking yellow dial and red/blue bezel. By now we know all Skylab-4 crewmembers carried a personal wristwatch and Commander Gerald Carr also took an automatic chronograph onboard that flight; a Movado Datron HS360 ChronoDiver, fitting for an USMC officer. These 1973 photos show Colonel Pogue wearing the Seiko 6139 during training and onboard Skylab. Note he wore the Seiko 6139 on his lefthand wrist and a NASA-issued #72 Omega Speedmaster chronograph on his righthand wrist. (Photos: NASA)