Astronauts and Fighter Pilot Traditions: Traveling Playboys
After a scandal involving “inappropriate” photos in a commercial airline cockpit, this site covered the fighter pilot tradition of putting risqué photos in cross country mission planning materials. It appears the Apollo astronauts did the same thing.
On January 13th an auction house is planning to start selling off artifacts from a variety of space missions, including a Playboy centerfold:
Vintage color calendar photo of Playboy Playmate Miss August 1967, DeDe Lind, which was stowed away in the Apollo 12 command module Yankee Clipper during its November 1969 voyage to the moon…
The topless image is an original taken from one of the 1969 calendars published by Playboy and features the month Read more