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Playboy Playmates on the Moon « Thread Started on Sept 13, 2007, 7:26am »
Sigh! Researching Apollo information can be a tough job at times, but somebody's got to do it.
The TV mini-series and DVD set, From the Earth to the Moon, highlighted the fact that while they were on the lunar surface during the Apollo 12 mission, Pete Conrad and Al Bean found that on their cuff checklists, along with numerous cartoon drawings, they each had two black-and-white photostat pictures of Playboy Playmates.
Details of individual pages and photos of the checklists can be viewed at the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, fourth from the bottom of the list of Background Material for the Apollo 12 Journal, with the link Cuff Checklists: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a12/cuff12.html
However, the Playmates in the four photos are not identified in the captions, and there has occasionally been discussion on the internet about who they are, such as this thread at collectSPACE: http://collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/000421.html
Two of the Playmates have been correctly identified at collectSPACE, but not the other two.
So, armed with memories of sneaking Playboy magazines home under my shirt in 1963 at the age of 14 and subsequently conducting considerable research into the contents of the magazine for many years, I bravely sallied forth on the internet, fruitlessly searching online archives for originals of the checklist photos, noting any photos that were vaguely similar, and eventually contacting the Playboy Advisor for assistance and advising them of my guesses at who the unidentified Playmates were. It turned out that my long, scholarly and tedious research had paid off -- I had correctly identified the two parties.
Below are links to the checklist photos and the correct identities of all four Playmates, plus details of the exact photos in the 1970 Playboy Playmate Calendar (desktop version) that the photostats were mischievously taken from by Dave Scott and cohorts.
Those who have the DVDs of From the Earth to the Moon can view that production's versions of the checklists on Disc 3, Part 7 as follows, but note that they are shown in colour and reversed for each astronaut: 0:31:40 Leslie Bianchini, Miss January 1969 Survey - Her activity 0:31:40 Error: This picture of Leslie Bianchini was actually on Al Bean's checklist 0:31:56 Reagan Wilson, Miss October 1967 Preferred tether partner 0:31:56 Error: This picture of Reagan Wilson was on Pete Conrad's checklist.
On her own website, Reagan Wilson has a copy of her actual photo, plus a 1990s photo of herself with Pete Conrad. The original photo is the eighth on the For Sale page, titled "Hi There Cowboy" (Warning: Not for delicate eyes) http://www.reaganwilson.com/reaganforsale.htm and on her Candids page, fifth from the top and titled "Pete Conrad - What an honor!" is the photo of tall Reagan with considerably shorter Pete. They were reunited on E! Entertainment Television in the mid-1990s. http://www.reaganwilson.com/candidphotos.htm
Mercifully for us, in this photo they both have all their clothes on.
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Re: Playboy Playmates on the Moon « Reply #1 on Sept 14, 2007, 1:13am »
Well that's another mystery solved - we now know the real reason Bean accidentally aimed his camera at the sun!
Seriously, I could imagine this being used as evidence of a hoax. "They were serious professionals on a dangerous mission to the moon - no way would they have soft porn in their possession. What if they got an erection? They could have damaged their suits."
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Re: Playboy Playmates on the Moon « Reply #3 on Sept 14, 2007, 3:50am »
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Excellent Work!
Thank you, thank you! As you can imagine, it required considerable dedication.
I do hope that those of you who examined the checklist photos noticed in the fourth one, another joke in Beano's checklist: The term "COLOR/ALBEANO VARIATIONS" instead of COLOR/ALBEDO VARIATIONS. According to the ALSJ caption, CapCom Ed Gibson was responsible for that one.
Don't criticize what you can't understand. Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1963) Some people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices and superstitions. Edward R. Murrow (190865)
Some hoax-believers seem to be so po-faced and deadly serious about their pursuit of a conspiracy that they are quite put out and think it most inappropriate when they come across the astronauts cracking jokes...
Don't criticize what you can't understand. Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1963) Some people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices and superstitions. Edward R. Murrow (190865)
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Re: Playboy Playmates on the Moon « Reply #6 on Sept 16, 2007, 6:41am »
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I can imagine... "I think I've found the right playmates, but I better keep looking... just to be absolutely sure."
Of course. As JayUtah would put it, it's not sufficient to select just one candidate that seems to fit -- one must eliminate all other possibilities. Therefore it was essential to not confuse Cynthia Myers's large, round eyes with Majken Haugedal's, or Angela Dorian's cute nose with Lisa Baker's.
Not knowing, initially, that the checklist photostats came from the 1970 Playmate calendar, nor having access to it, meant casting a wide net and critically examining a large number of photos from 1966 to 1969, and it was only a dogged determination to solve this particular Apollo mystery that enabled the completion of such a tiresome and onerous task.
[Would anyone like to bet whether or not Google has recently had a more enquiries than usual about Angela Dorian, Reagan Wilson, Cynthia Myers and Leslie Bianchini?]
Don't criticize what you can't understand. Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1963) Some people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices and superstitions. Edward R. Murrow (190865)
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Re: Playboy Playmates on the Moon « Reply #7 on Sept 16, 2007, 9:14am »
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[Would anyone like to bet whether or not Google has recently had a more enquiries than usual about Angela Dorian, Reagan Wilson, Cynthia Myers and Leslie Bianchini?]
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Re: Playboy Playmates on the Moon « Reply #9 on Sept 17, 2007, 12:12am »
You can't keep a secret these days -- not that I tried. My confirmation from the Playboy Advisor about the dates and location of the original photos arrived on Friday, 3 November 2006 5:21 a.m.
Don't criticize what you can't understand. Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1963) Some people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices and superstitions. Edward R. Murrow (190865)
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Re: Playboy Playmates on the Moon « Reply #10 on Nov 11, 2009, 6:20am »
Being a such dogged, determined and dedicated researcher into this important Apollo detail, as expressed in earlier posts, I sometimes wondered if there were any photos taken on the lunar surface which included any of the Playmates, and yes, thanks to the ALSJ on DVD, there is one. So remember that you learnt it here first at ApolloHoax:
There is one genuine, unmanipulated photo that shows two astronauts and one other person on the moon.
(Well, sort of.)
AS12-48-7071 is Al Bean's photo of Pete Conrad taking a photo of Al, and Al is reflected in Pete's visor. Besides that, Pete's wrist checklist is open at the page which shows Playmate Reagan Wilson, Miss October 1967. Reagan is shown more clearly in the photo of the checklist page.
Don't criticize what you can't understand. Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1963) Some people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices and superstitions. Edward R. Murrow (190865)
Re: Playboy Playmates on the Moon « Reply #11 on Nov 16, 2009, 2:34am »
I don΄t remember where Al Bean was saying it,but I remember him saying that when they discovered the pics that they were loughing and giggleing for about 3 minutes. Someone(I believe it was Harrison Schmitt A17) later calculated that every minute on the moon was about 1 million dollars to the tax payers...that means that was a 3 million dollar joke by Mr. Dave Scott
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I sometimes wondered if there were any photos taken on the lunar surface which included any of the Playmates, and yes, thanks to the ALSJ on DVD, there is one. So remember that you learnt it here first at ApolloHoax: