#cc williams

[jennrg]

(Credit to NASA)

[emmythespacecowgirl]

Headcanons for hanging out with all the marines Astros

Hanging with the NASA Marine Astronauts:

they're all super busy allllll the time

so you guys kinda just hang out while doing tasks or different stuff together

hanging with John is fun

bc he usually invites you to his office

it's the most warming and friendly atmosphere

he'll be doing some kind of paperwork

and you'll just sit there and tell him about your day

he also really likes going to see shows

you guys will get free tickets to broadway musicals all the time

so you end up planning an impromptu trip to NYC together

sometimes you'll hang out with C.C. in the cafeteria at Johnson

he'll tell you about the new work out routines that he's been trying

you'll poke fun at him about the fact that he tried to compress his spine

by jumping up and down all night before his physical

he'll never live that one down

Gerry Car definitely won't let him

hanging with Gerry is also kinda fun

he's the one that gives you the most free passes to everything

he even gets you into the Skylab mock up facility

as long as you promise not to touch any of the buttons

which you don't

[liaspacethings]

The lovely Astronaut Group 3 aka the “the new fourteen” having Water Survival Training in Pennsacola, Florida. 

Must say always see photos of the second group having Water Survival Training never the third. So here is one. 

[gusgrissom]

53 years ago today, astronaut C.C. Williams died in a T-38 crash in Florida. To remember him, here are some lovely photos of C.C.’s wedding to his wife Beth in July 1964. Their first daughter was born in 1967 and was a year old when her father died; their second daughter was born several months after C.C.’s death.

[good-and-colorful]

As a peace offering from the last post, here’s all this other stuff I found on Pinterest, where they can’t seem to source anything so I don’t know where it’s actually from.

[twinamoto2]

Today would have been the 85th birthday of Clifton C. Williams, also known as C.C. Williams. He was born on September 26, 1932, and he tragically was killed in a T-38 crash near Tallahassee, Florida on October 5, 1967.  He was selected as an astronaut in the 3rd group in 1963, and he was the first ever bachelor astronaut. He found his love and married in July 1964.  The four stars on the Apollo 12 patch signifies the three crewmen of Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, Richard Gordon) and CC Williams. 

[jennrg]

[jennrg]

(Credit to NASA)