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The outcome of the national election will not affect the process of human exploration of space. In the process of exploration, a watch brand was recognized by NASA, which is rare in the history of watches. It can be said that it is not just a watch, but behind it actually reveals a cognitive science achievement: how astronauts respond to the catastrophe and turn the danger into a disaster when faced with fear (including death). It's both scientific and like a miracle. It all started with Omega winning NASA's Snoopy Award... (Watch science, Fine Watchmaking combined with other social sciences to study the "applause" and "applause" of watches.) ）
The 50th anniversary of the new Speedmaster series "Snoopy Award" is a commemorative watch that leads the Omega Speedmaster series to a new design height. In addition to a variety of creative dial designs, the back of this watch also has movements, as if the classic watch complication - moving dolls (Automaton, more on that later)
The 50th anniversary of the Omega Speedmaster series "Snoopy Award" represents the shaping of astronauts' heroic temperament. This cool watch is the coolest with heroic temperament. This article will focus on Omega's Snoopy Award, talking about the application of psychology in the aerospace industry.
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of NASA's "successful failure", the coolest medal
In 1968, Snoopy was chosen as NASA's mascot, symbolizing the success and safe execution of the space mission. NASA also established the Silver Snoopy Award, which recognizes people who have made outstanding contributions to the scientific exploration of the human universe. Winners receive a NASA thank-you note and certificate, as well as a Snoopy Silver badge. The Snoopy Awards are NASA's highest honors, and from 1968 to the present, less than 1% of the award nominees have received this honor, and Omega is one of them.
On April 17, 1970, the Apollo 13 command module landed safely on the surface of the Pacific Ocean under widespread attention. Shortly before that, the spacecraft suffered an accident in space 200,000 miles from Earth. One of the two oxygen storage tanks on the Apollo 13 service module exploded. This caused damage to the ship's power system. The lunar landing plan was forced to be suspended, 3 astronauts squeezed into the lunar module that could only accommodate 2 people and began to prepare to return to The Earth, in the final stage of the flight, the lunar module flight as an emergency rescue capsule deviated from the orbit, because of the power system failure, the astronauts could only manually control the engine to burn for 14 seconds to ensure that they did not deviate from the course, at this life and death juncture, the astronauts relied on the Omega Speedmaster watch between the wrists to accurately time, successfully completed a series of orbit corrections, so that the spacecraft re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. Eventually landed safely on the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
On October 5, 1970, NASA awarded Omega the Silver Snoopy Award in recognition of its contributions to the Apollo program as a whole, particularly in Apollo 13. This honor is well deserved.
How can understatement portray the hero's desperate rebirth
The oxygen tank exploded, and the astronauts completed a series of orbit corrections. Re-enter the atmosphere.
There is an explosion in space, which is equivalent to a catastrophe, and the commanders and scientists on the ground can only hope that the astronauts themselves will make the right choices and judgments and find a solution.
The space hero who experienced disillusionment returned safely, from left to right: Fred Haise, Jack Swigert, and Jim Lovell
The problem is that in the face of the catastrophe, I am not scared to death, and I am already strong. Where else can we talk about finding a solution?
Although aerospace hardware is built by the best scientists and engineers, these devices are made on the ground. Accidents that occur in the application scenario of space are often unimaginable on the ground, and naturally there will be no plan.
In response to this difficulty, NASA introduced the results of cognitive science and pinned its hopes on astronauts. "Since accidents cannot be imagined, we have to count on human reason." No matter how good the hardware is, it also needs to be played by people.
Omega Speedmaster series "Snoopy Award" 45th anniversary scale watch
The Divine Operation of Psychologist Risk Management?
Simply put, it is to train astronauts to be able to remain calm and make the best judgments and choices when facing extreme situations. That is to say, when encountering a catastrophe and others are scared half to death, the astronauts can still operate correctly. Hero Summer Camp!
This is based on a study in psychology that negative emotions affect the quality of people's judgments. The biggest negative emotion is the feeling of "going to die".
Psychologists train astronauts to separate actions from the negative emotions that can be brought about. As a common example on our ground, being rejected for a sales pitch can make you negative. You just need to separate these negative emotions from your actions. This customer rejected me, it doesn't matter, let's see if there is any other possibility of cooperation, my sales behavior if there is no problem, next time I will do it.
Astronaut training is a little more complicated, and psychologists let astronauts enter a hypothetical accident environment first (the rocket is out, you're going to die. What happens when you die), so that astronauts get used to death in advance, psychologically called "perceptual adaptation" so that you are not bothered by fear. Astronauts can separate the fear of death from his operations. He can deal with accidents rationally and calmly without fear.
Every astronaut experiences his disillusionment on the ground and is always ready to be reborn. Of course, no one wants this moment to really come.
NASA will introduce personality assessments to screen astronauts. Self-righteous "heroes" may not be selected. Perhaps the selection of astronauts is more professional than the selection of presidents.
Risk is risk after all, space is unpredictable, and astronauts have to be a little superstitious. Astronauts throughout the ages have had their own superstitions, such as touching their mascots before setting off.
The watch became the carrier of the medal
As a beloved character in peanut comics and a mascot of NASA, the "Snoopy" image has twice been adorned on the dial and back of the Omega Speedmaster watch, as an Omega tribute to the Apollo 13 astronauts, and is also a small commemoration of the brand's "Snoopy Award".
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Omega winning the "Snoopy Award", in order to commemorate the legendary history of "successful failure", Omega Glory presented the 50th anniversary of the new Speedmaster series "Snoopy Award" commemorative watch, which uses an unprecedented breakthrough design to lead the Speedmaster series to a new design height.
The 50th anniversary of the new Speedmaster series "Snoopy Award" pays tribute to this unforgettable space mission 50 years ago and commemorates teamwork, composure and courage. It was these qualities that allowed Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, command module pilot John "Jack" Swigert, Jr., and lunar module pilot Fred Haise to return home safely.
The asymmetrical design of the 42 mm stainless-steel case is inspired by the fourth generation of the Speedmaster (the Speedmaster worn by astronauts on the moon for the first time in 1969). The watch is fitted with a blue nylon knitted strap that echoes the blue zirconia [ZrO2] ceramic tachymeter and the blue mini-dial. Engraved with the "Ag925" logo on the silver dial, the ultra-cute Snoopy, for the first time in the form of a silver relief medallion, presents a small blue dial at 9 o'clock, which is the same as the design of the silver Snoopy brooch awarded by NASA to the winners. Blue PVD stereoscopic time marker with classic Speedmaster "Moon Watch" style hands. The strap lining is also decorated with the sailing tracks of the Apollo 13 mission.
This watch is equipped with the Omega 3861 manual winding chronograph movement, this movement is an upgraded version of the classic 1861 manual movement of The Speedmaster, this movement lasted 4 years of research and development, Omega in the 1861 movement size unchanged, adding more parts, and the movement into the coaxial escapement system, and upgraded to the best observatory standard, the watch has 15,000 gauss anti-magnetic performance, the daily travel accuracy of 0-5 seconds.
Omega's first "moving puppet" watch
In a sense, yes. And this may be the only mechanical doll watch that can be bought at a price of 70,000 yuan.
The biggest innovation of this year's Snoopy watch is the dynamic design of the back. The Earth on the back of the watch rotates synchronously with the 9 o'clock second hand, rotating one week per minute. And Snoopy sits in the Command Service Cabin (CSM) depicted in the black-and-white comic, with "magical" hands leading it around the moon. When the chronograph second hand began to run, Snoopy, like the astronauts on Apollo 13, slowly sailed out of the far side of the moon and began an exploration journey around the far side of the moon. The "Snoopy" flight around the moon not only increases the complications of the watch, increases the ornamentality of the watch, but also echoes the true history of Apollo 13, which is amazing. The "moon" surface of the watch back is treated with a unique microstructure metal spray plating technology, which realistically appears on the transparent sapphire back.
As shown by the red line in the figure, the "Earth" disc is synchronized with the watch's small second hand and rotates once a minute, symbolizing the precise movement of the earth. Snoopy, on the other hand, does a flight around the moon. The classic phrase "EYES ON THE STARS" is also engraved in the dark universe on the back of the watch.
The watch back uses OMEGA's unique NAIAD LOCK technology to ensure that all engraved text is always in the correct position, including the date on which Omega won the Snoopy Award (October 5, 1970) and the date of the "successful failure" of Apollo 13 (April 1970).
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