To Donna, Love Bob

Why is this 1975 photo of ME all over Britain?

ILC Industries, the NASA Contractor that made Apollo moon suits, held a "Garage Sale" in 1975 to clean out the storerooms. I flew down to Dover, Delaware from my home in Rochester NY. My flight to Philadelphia got me to the sale 2 hours late, and all the bubble helmets were gone by then.

I bought a white outer suit, and the blue training liner that was underneath. Before sending the outer suit to my buddy in Connecticut (I kept the training liner), I went to a portrait photographer, and had the photo made.

Donna was someone I was dating at the time I bought the space suit. When I visited Donna and her family in Brooklyn NY a few years ago, I found that they had the last remaining print that I had signed to her all those years ago. Her husband Marc was kind enough to scan it for me, and e-mail it to me.

As to how my picture got plastered all over Britain, I've got no idea. I'm waiting to hear from the folks at ToDonnaLoveBob.org myself. When they ask for your code number, put in "31220" so they'll know you visited this web site (unless you've got a code number from one of the photos). Why that number? Well, put 31220 into a pocket calculator, and turn it upside-down.

Robert Osband Computerist Spaceyideas.Com PO Box 445 Cape Canaveral   FL USA   32920 Ozzie@Spaceyideas.Com

Ozzie's old space suit photo is showing up all over London.	Ozzie, in only the training liner, has his copy of the novel "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" autographed by the author Robert A Heinlein at MidAmericon, the 1976 World Science Fiction Convetnion.	This is a more recent photo of Ozzie. The phone he's holding was his first mobile phone. Since he lives in Florida now, he claims his hair is "sun bleached".