I personally purchased a Speedmaster because of my nerdy sci-fi and spaceflight interests. Most recently, the Speedmaster broke a new space record in 2012, spending nearly 900 consecutive days in space on the wrist of Russian Gennady Padalka aboard the ISS.
When Apollo 13 was at risk of being trapped in space, one crewman’s Speedmaster was used to time the critical burns to adjust the craft’s trajectory to ensure they made it back to Earth ( as later dramatized by Hollywood). Self-professed ‘watch guy’ Buzz Aldrin wore his down to the surface, however – making his particular Speedy the first watch worn on another celestial body.Īfter the Apollo 11 mission, the Speedmaster continued to be used for many years. Plus, knowing the time in Texas wasn’t exactly key down on the surface. Neil Armstrong left his Speedmaster inside the module as a backup, because the module’s electronic timer had malfunctioned vindicating the need and utility for disconnected, analogue timepieces for the mission. NASA had a couple of modifications it wanted Omega to make – but ultimately, it was a modified version of this watch that went to space. Omega’s Speedmaster, which was initially designed as a racing and sports chronograph, passed them all. Other brand’s offerings (including that of Rolex), failed during NASA’s torture tests. One brand bafflingly pitched a pocket watch, which would’ve inevitably floated around, annoyingly, as soon as gravity lessened. NASA invited brands to pitch, and several did so. Whatever was chosen needed to be super-accurate and resistant to the extreme changes in temperature, humidity, and gravity that’d be encountered on the mission. They didn’t just need any old watch, though. And so, a search began for a watch fit for space. At the time of the Apollo Program development, NASA made one key decision: its astronauts should be equipped with personal timepieces in order to ensure the mission stayed on track, even if any timing mechanisms built into the modules themselves faltered. The Speedmaster, or Speedy for short, has since become absolutely synonymous with the Moon Landings, and space travel in general. Manage cookie settings Space is a completely new setting for Bethesda, but Starfield harkens deeply back to the studio's roots. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.
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