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USS Cusk Reunions - 2005
June 15th
to June 19th, Cocoa Beach & Merritt Island, Florida
Reception, Cape Canaveral and
Kennedy Space Center Tours, Dedication of Cusk Museum Display & BBQ
Dinner
The crew of the Cusk from 1966 to
1969 gathered in Merritt Island, Florida for some great times together.
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Reception at the
Roselands
Cape Canaveral Tour
Orbital Processing Facility at Kennedy
Space Center
Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space
Center
Space Station Processing Facility at
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space
Center
Cusk Museum Display
Dedication Ceremonies
Evening Meals
Reception at the
Roselands, Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Group photo on Roseland's
Dock
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Dave Duerr speaking with
Gary Carr
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Relaxing on the back porch
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Sitting on the dock of the,
err, canal
Standing - Joni Krabill &
Don Birch
Sitting - Jim Branske, Ron
Perkins,
Barbara Perkins, John
Troutman
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Feeding the Ducks
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Ducks in canal
(Photo courtesy of
Tom Roseland) |
Cape
Canaveral Tour, U.S. Air Force Missiles and Space Museum, Thursday, June 16, 2005
Our tour bus sitting in
front of the
Missiles & Space Museum on
Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Chimpanzee astronaut display
in the
Museum
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Launch Complex overview &
history
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Launch complex control
center
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Outside the launch complex
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Some of the missiles on
display outside
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Launch Control
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Launch complex displays
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Orbital Processing
Facility (OPF) at Kennedy Space Center, Friday, June 17, 2005
Dave Duerr checking the
tires on
Space Shuttle Atlantis
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
View of underside of
Shuttle's tail section
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
OPF interior
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Vehicle Assembly
Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center, Friday, June 17, 2005
Our NASA bus parked in front
of VAB
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Inside the main area of the
VAB
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Inside the VAB looking at
the tops of the
Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs)
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Inside the VAB
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Inside the NASA bus at KSC
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Space Station
Processing Facility (SSPF) at Kennedy Space Center, Friday, June 17, 2005
Lindsay, Tom and Val
Roseland
(Photo courtesy of Courtney
Roseland) |
Inspecting some of the
payloads in the SSPF
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Zeke & Bev Zellmer and
Dennis Schultz
sitting in the lobby of the
SSPF
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Entrance to SSPF
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
After lunch in the SSPF
lunchroom
(Photo courtesy of Courtney
Roseland) |
Special quilt made to
commemorate
the Space Shuttle Columbia
hanging in
the main hallway of the SSPF
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Dave Duerr and Bill
Weisensee in the
lobby of the SSPF
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Dennis Shultz, Don Birch and
Richard
Bowman looking at a Japanese
Payload
being prepared for
installation on the
International Space Station
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Craig Jacobson discussing
Space Station
payloads with group in the
High Bay
of the SSPF
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Launch Pad
39B at Kennedy Space Center, Friday, June 17, 2005
Joni & Lee Krabill
(Photo courtesy of Courtney
Roseland) |
Space Shuttle Discovery on
Launch Pad
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Group photo in front of
Space Shuttle
Discovery on Launch Pad 39B
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Cusk
Museum Dedication Ceremonies at the Brevard Veteran's Memorial Museum, Saturday,
June 18, 2005
Don Killian addressing the
group and
talking about Sam Houston
(Photo courtesy of Courtney
Roseland) |
Don & Rita Killian, Dottie &
Bill Houston
(son of Sam Houston), Bev &
Zeke Zellmer
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Don Birch, Richard Bowman
and Dave
Lawrence getting ready for
the group shot
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Jim Branske, Don Birch &
Dennis Schultz
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Captain Gernand, commanding
officer of
the Naval Ordinance Test
Unit was our
guest speaker at the Museum
Dedication
(Photo courtesy of Courtney
Roseland) |
Don Killian and Dottie
Houston cutting
the cake
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Tom Roseland addressing the
group
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
The Cusk Museum Display cake
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
The Birchs and Carrs
enjoying lunch at
the Veteran's Center
(Photo courtesy of Courtney
Roseland) |
L to R - Dave Lawrence, Bill
& Nancy
Weisensee, Dave Duerr, Lee &
Joni Krabill
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Captain Gernand (right)
talks with his COB
(left) and XO (center) at
the end of the
ceremonies
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Group shot at the Veteran's
Center
L to R - Gary Carr, Dave
Duerr, Jim Branske,
Don Birch, Dennis Schultz,
Bill Weisensee,
Lee Krabill, Don Killian &
John Troutman
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Group shot at the Veteran's
Center
L to R standing - Jim
Branske, Don Killian,
Dottie Houston, John
Troutman, Dave Duerr,
Tom Roseland, Gary Carr,
Bill Weisensee,
Lee Krabill, John Schmitt,
Jim Johnson,
Ron Perkins & Dennis Schulz
L to R kneeling - Zeke
Zellmer, Don Birch,
Richard Bowman & Dave
Lawrence
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Lee Krabill & Don Killian
outside the center
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Outside the Center getting
ready for
the group photo, L to R -
Dave Duerr's hat,
Gary Carr, Lee Krabill, Bill
Weisensee, John
Schmitt, Ron Perkins,
Richard Bowman's hair,
Dennis Schultz, Dave
Lawrence's sunglasses
and Jim Johnson
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
The Evening
Meals
Lindsay & Val Roseland
(Photo courtesy of Courtney
Roseland) |
Rita & Don Killian at Olive
Garden
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Bill & Nancy Weisensee
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
John Troutman & Bill
Weisensee
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Nelda & Jim Johnson
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
Richard Bowman & Dennis
Schultz
(Photo courtesy of Tom
Roseland) |
If you have any information, pictures,
history, or crewmember names/information from the Cusk in 1959 (or any year),
please contact the
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Thanks!
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