Showing posts with label James McDivitt. Show all posts

Item: James McDivitt signed litho Size: 20.4 x 25.9 cm Description: Jim McDivitt signed white space suit litho with green ink. The reason h...


Item: James McDivitt signed litho
Size: 20.4 x 25.9 cm

Description:
Jim McDivitt signed white space suit litho with green ink. The reason he used green ink for his signatures was not only is he a devout Irish Catholic, but he wrote most of his NASA memos in green ink so folks would know immediately that it was from McDivitt.

James Alton McDivitt (June 10, 1929 – October 13, 2022) was an American test pilot, United States Air Force (USAF) pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut in the Gemini and Apollo programs.

In 1962, McDivitt was selected as an astronaut by NASA as part of Astronaut Group 2. He commanded the Gemini 4 mission, during which Ed White performed the first U.S. spacewalk, and later the Apollo 9 flight, which was the first crewed flight test of the Apollo lunar module and the complete set of Apollo flight hardware. He later became the manager of lunar landing operations and was the Apollo spacecraft program manager from 1969 to 1972. In June 1972 he left NASA and retired from the USAF with the rank of brigadier general.