Posted on 11/23/2022 2:58:34 AM PST by C19fan
Navy football players are going to be looking gooooooooood for their game against Army this year -- the school just revealed it'll be wearing NASA-themed uniforms for the classic rivalry ... and they're awesome!!
The helmets, jerseys, cleats and gloves will feature nods to astronauts -- as the school looks to pay homage to the 54 Naval Academy graduates who went on to become space explorers.
One side of the players' headgear will have a painting of Navy alum Bruce McCandless II, who took the first untethered spacewalk back in 1985. The other side will have NASA's logo on it with a moon in the background.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
Cool uniforms.
That’s a nice uniform for Moonball.
Those were great men indeed and a credit to the navy, but their efforts and accomplishments were needed just to catch the navy up to the accomplishments of Lewis and Clark.
Wifey does not care as long as they wear uniform tight pants. Her absent knowledge of the games rules has her guffawing every time she hears the term “1st down.”
Beat Army !
Bunch ‘a ring knockers...
Naval academy- of that group- Alan Shepard and James Lovell.
Hang on...I thought the Navy was all about pronouns today. Wouldn’t cute little skirts and halter tops be more fitting?
And my father… who knew both of them VERY well…
There’s a small Army research facility in my town and,as a result,one can see soldiers at the local mall pretty regularly. Whenever I see one I give him/her a thumbs up and say “beat Navy!”.
What am I missing? Other than the Helmet (very cool graphic), it’s a clean white uniform and not the usual Navy colors. I like it but I wouldn’t consider it out of this world.
Wow. Astronaut I imagine.
I have my father’s copy of 1953 lucky Bag. Lovell’s picture is in it
Uniforms don’t score points
NASA patch on the shoulder......but yeah I’m not really seeing it either
Matches their eyeshadow, even.
J/k
Almost.
My father was a Navy test pilot graduate of Annapolis who made the last group of candidates before the final selection of the original seven Mercury class. He was disqualified for a minor medical condition (which actually ended up killing him later in life). NASA leadership liked what he brought, though, and asked him to join the Astronaut Corps as a trainer. He trained Mercury and Gemini crews on emergency flight procedures. One of those team members was Lovell, who used his training during the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission.
Deke Slayton had my father’s status reclassified for the Apollo program, but that ended before my father could fly. He retired from the Navy as a Captain at the end of that program and left NASA.
He knew and trained all of the astronauts of that era, and was friends with many. He was very close to Gus Grissom, and we’ve had Neil Armstrong to our house for dinner. As a kid, I was starstruck by being so close to all of that.
His greatest disappointment was that he never flew into space. My oldest son now works in the space program, and a few years ago, he was able to get my father’s name inscribed on the leg of the Mars lander.
He may have never left our atmosphere, but he finally got to have a presence where he wanted to be.
Why is there a NASA patch on a Navy uniform?
NASA works with the Space Force.
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