Description: This vintage NASA features the official NASA portrait of astronaut, Charles Bassett II. Vintage print on fibre-based Kodak paper with ‘A Kodak Paper’ watermark. Some light edge wear, otherwise excellent. Tragedy struck the NASA community on Feb. 28, 1966. Gemini-IX prime crew members Elliot M. See and Charles A. Bassett were flying a T-38 Talon aircraft from Houston to St. Louis to attend a rendezvous simulation at the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation’s plant, the manufacturer of the Gemini spacecraft. While attempting an instrument landing at Lambert International Airport in marginal weather, their aircraft struck the roof of a McDonnell building before dropping into an outside storage area. See and Bassett died instantly and several McDonnell employees suffered minor injuries. Their Gemini spacecraft being readied for shipment escaped damage. Backup crew members Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan, flying in a separate T-38, landed safely. Robert R. Gilruth, director of the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), now NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, said of the deaths of See and Bassett, “Both of these men were fine persons and excellent professional test pilots. We will miss them more than I can say.”
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