a (JFK)_v_bw_o_n (original 1962 photo, JFK lib assession no. ST-387-19-62 eq)
President John F. Kennedy (left) views a mock-up [boilerplate] of an Apollo Command Module, during a tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth, stands left of President Kennedy. Also pictured: Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Representative Albert Thomas (Texas); chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence of Great Britain, Sir Solly Zuckerman; White House Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius and Rufus Youngblood. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
Credit: Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
The decal/sign/placard on the boilerplate capsule reads:
"APOLLO COMMAND MODULE
FULL SIZE MOCKUP FOR
FLOTATION STABILITY TESTS"
See also:
archive.org/details/Aviation_Week_1962-09-24/page/n15/mod...
Credit: Internet Archive website
In fact, the montage of photos President Kennedy is being shown appears to document such flotation stability and towing tests of (most likely) this boilerplate having already been conducted. I wonder which one it is...BP-2, 25, or even 29 maybe?
www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-ST-387-19...
archive1.jfklibrary.org/JFKWHP/1962/Month%2009/Day%2012/J...
Priceless:
archive.org/details/1962-09-13_Kennedy_Tour
Interesting reading:
www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/jfk-and-the-moon-180947824/
Credit: Smithsonian Air & Space website
a (JFK)_v_bw_o_n (original 1962 photo, JFK lib assession no. ST-387-19-62 eq)
President John F. Kennedy (left) views a mock-up [boilerplate] of an Apollo Command Module, during a tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth, stands left of President Kennedy. Also pictured: Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Representative Albert Thomas (Texas); chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence of Great Britain, Sir Solly Zuckerman; White House Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius and Rufus Youngblood. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
Credit: Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
The decal/sign/placard on the boilerplate capsule reads:
"APOLLO COMMAND MODULE
FULL SIZE MOCKUP FOR
FLOTATION STABILITY TESTS"
See also:
archive.org/details/Aviation_Week_1962-09-24/page/n15/mod...
Credit: Internet Archive website
In fact, the montage of photos President Kennedy is being shown appears to document such flotation stability and towing tests of (most likely) this boilerplate having already been conducted. I wonder which one it is...BP-2, 25, or even 29 maybe?
www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-ST-387-19...
archive1.jfklibrary.org/JFKWHP/1962/Month%2009/Day%2012/J...
Priceless:
archive.org/details/1962-09-13_Kennedy_Tour
Interesting reading:
www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/jfk-and-the-moon-180947824/
Credit: Smithsonian Air & Space website