A special thanks from Brazil to you, Ann Miklos, for share with us your sentimental history with a simple objetc and how objects are straight related with persons.

When she holds up watch and says I have it with me …the tears just flowed… Thank you for an inspired and moving sharing…

Great lecture Ann. I knew Dave for a summer when we were with the circus. I gave to Coast Guard Capt. Dan Burbank who flew on STS 106 and 115. some photos from Dave's circus days to post on the bulletin board at NASA. Dave was a tremendous talent in so many ways and a very nice guy.

Most informative. One point that seems to be missing is the fact that the foam strike caused great concern because of its large size. There were pleas for hi res photographs of the suspect area and these pleas were ignored by, amongst others, Leroy Cain, flight director, and Linda Ham management. Bad engineering decisions. And fatal.

Thank you for posting this look into an aspect of historical space travel I hadn't seen or read about before. Although called a stopwatch, "timepiece" seems a more appropriate term than "watch", since a stopwatch is started and stopped to measure a finite elapsed time from zero to X units, without regard to actual time of day. Whereas a "watch" is basically a small clock worn on or carried about the person to primarily provide the current time continuously. 🙂 The part about Scott Carpenter's Navitimer not being waterproof immediately reminded me of John Cameron Swayze's Timex commercial showing the outboard motor torture test.... NASA shoulda used a "Timex - It takes a licking and keeps on ticking!" 😂

Wonderful presentation on my favourite aspect of horology: the humanity of it all. Thanks HSNY.

Neil Armstrong's Omega Speedmaster did not malfunction. The Bulova clock inside the Lunar Module malfunctioned. Armstrong made a decision to leave his Omega Speedmaster in the Lunar Module as a back-up to Buzz Aldrin's. He didn't want to risk both Omega's to be damaged while outside the Lunar Module.

Great talk as always!

Armstrong’s watch wasn’t malfunctioning...he left it in the module, as a backup, because their internal clock wasn’t working.

Surely the first watch in space must have been worn by Gagarin!

35:30 I wonder what kind of properties that watch's surface treatment has. Very matte color but maybe surface hardened?

With that being said...

"Anne! We found the watch! It was still on Dave's dismembered and charred wrist!" "Oh, wonderful! Please send it!" Jesus H. Christ in a sidecar.

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