The picture below shows the launch team members for SA-5. Each person has been numbered. Following the picture is a list of these numbers with the corresponding individual’s name. You will note some of the individuals have not been identified.
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SA-5 Launch photo 1 from Blockhouse
Launch Team Members in SA-5 Launch Blockhouse Photo
| 1 | 17 | 33 Gene Bishop |
| 2 | 18 Carrol Rouse | 34 Tommy Marsh |
| 3 Dr. Kurt Debus | 19 Lionel “Ed” Fannin | 35 |
| 4 John Bell | 20 Terry Greenfield | 36 |
| 5 John Twigg | 21 | 37 |
| 6 Dr. Wernher von Braun | 22 W. O. Brown | 38 |
| 7 | 23 | 39 |
| 8 Jack King | 24 Andy Pickett | 40 |
| 9 Dick Deagro | 25 | 41 Milt Chambers |
| 10 John Churchill, MDAC | 26 Carner Dowling | 42 |
| 11 Bob Moser | 27 Bill Jafferies | 43 |
| 12 General Sam Phillips | 28 John Avery | 44 |
| 13 Herb Daft | 29 Isom “Ike” Rigell | 45 |
| 14 Dale Armstrong | 30 | 46 |
| 15 | 31 | |
| 16 | 32 |
SA-5 #36 Jim Hazelton & #37 I believe is Jim Hensley & this picture was taken from Blockhouse @ LC37
Some of us were busy safing our systems and didn’t show in the picture, e.g., I was operating the propellant fuels panel and Gray Rawls was operating the LOX panel.