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The enigmatic Ames Research Center’s “preliminary mock-up” Apollo spacecraft. Few photos and even less text available on it, other than the below or slight variant thereof:
“Three NASA test pilots suited in flight restraining suits prepare to enter the 3-man Apollo Spacecraft. A preliminary mock-up model 13’ wide and 12’ high.”
But wait, and not surprisingly, Aviation Week & Space Technology, via the Internet Archive website, comes through! With minor paraphrasing:
"Mockup of the Apollo command module at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Research Center will be used primarily to determine instrument layouts for the three-man crew. The laboratory mockup, made of aluminum with a wood interior, is 13 ft. in dia. and 12 ft. high. Three Ames scientists (L - R) -- Milton Contella, Clark White and Ronald Gerdes -- simulate the crew. They are dressed in Ames-developed restraint suits from which the Apollo full pressure suit is expected to be designed."
See also:
Specifically, number 24:
www.theatlantic.com/photo/2012/05/50-years-ago-the-world-...
www.sciencesource.com/archive/Apollo-Flight-Restraining-G...
elpoderdelasgalaxias.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/apollo-earl...
78.media.tumblr.com/cfd886e1aa936897cfdd34cc73bb33f3/tumb...
www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Watchf-AP-A-CA-USA-APHS36...
c8.alamy.com/comp/HRF7PE/test-pilot-climbs-into-apollo-mo...
www.pbagalleries.com/images/lot/1545/154524_0.jpg
Credit: PBA Galleries website
www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/portrait-of-three...
"Credit": Getty Images website
a_v_bw_o_n (62-APOLLO-21)
The enigmatic Ames Research Center’s “preliminary mock-up” Apollo spacecraft. Few photos and even less text available on it, other than the below or slight variant thereof:
“Three NASA test pilots suited in flight restraining suits prepare to enter the 3-man Apollo Spacecraft. A preliminary mock-up model 13’ wide and 12’ high.”
But wait, and not surprisingly, Aviation Week & Space Technology, via the Internet Archive website, comes through! With minor paraphrasing:
"Mockup of the Apollo command module at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Research Center will be used primarily to determine instrument layouts for the three-man crew. The laboratory mockup, made of aluminum with a wood interior, is 13 ft. in dia. and 12 ft. high. Three Ames scientists (L - R) -- Milton Contella, Clark White and Ronald Gerdes -- simulate the crew. They are dressed in Ames-developed restraint suits from which the Apollo full pressure suit is expected to be designed."
See also:
Specifically, number 24:
www.theatlantic.com/photo/2012/05/50-years-ago-the-world-...
www.sciencesource.com/archive/Apollo-Flight-Restraining-G...
elpoderdelasgalaxias.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/apollo-earl...
78.media.tumblr.com/cfd886e1aa936897cfdd34cc73bb33f3/tumb...
www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Watchf-AP-A-CA-USA-APHS36...
c8.alamy.com/comp/HRF7PE/test-pilot-climbs-into-apollo-mo...
www.pbagalleries.com/images/lot/1545/154524_0.jpg
Credit: PBA Galleries website
www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/portrait-of-three...
"Credit": Getty Images website