<p>(edit: see comment below for how these cleats were for much more than the exercise bike)
</p><p>Today is the 50-Year Anniversary of the successful completion of Apollo 9, the first flight of the Lunar Module. We hosted LM Pilot Rusty Schweickart and B612 for a dinner, and tonight, the &lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://sandiegoairandspace.org/calendar/event/50th-anniversary-of-apollo-9">http://sandiegoairandspace.org/calendar/event/50th-anniversary-of-apollo-9</a>" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;50th Anniversary Celebration&lt;/a&gt; with the entire Apollo 9 crew in San Diego.  Apollo 8 and 9 is the only mission with all three crew members still with us on this pale blue dot.
</p><p>Rusty shared a mesmerizing story of his EVA and a 5 minute unexpected delay where he got to hang outside the lunar module (awaiting a camera to be fixed) with an unlikely moment to contemplate the purpose of life in the silence of space. It brought to life a picture we have that hung behind Randy at dinner, of his spacecraft in earth orbit (below).
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And the shoes were his personal pair used in training as backup crew for Skylab.  I also happen to have the full exercise bike that they clip into, a marvel of custom engineering, with switches and dials that look like it was borrowed form the Lunar Module (below)
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/44124348109@N01">Steve Jurvetson</a> from Los Altos, USA
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/40404208063/">Rusty Schweickart's Skylab Exercise Bike Shoes</a>