a08_v_bw_o_n (68-H-737, 68-HC-472)
“The command module of Apollo spacecraft 103 is lowered into [the] altitude chamber in KSC’s Manned Spacecraft Operations Building today. The spacecraft will undergo rigorous testing before it is finally mated to its Saturn V launch vehicle for launching later this year. It will be the first Apollo to fly with men aboard a Saturn V. The crew will be Astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr., and William A. Anders.”
Dated: August 21, 1968
This photo provides an excellent view of the umbilical fairing that bridges the Command & Service Modules. Note the cabling and wiring feeding into/through it...basically serving as the spinal cord between the two spacecraft components.
Along that line, and neither here nor there...but, where IS the Service Module? I've only seen photos of the entire CSM combo lowered/raised into/out of the MSOB altitude chamber. Was this ‘unaccompanied’ test unique to Command Module 103?
Who knew, right?!
a08_v_bw_o_n (68-H-737, 68-HC-472)
“The command module of Apollo spacecraft 103 is lowered into [the] altitude chamber in KSC’s Manned Spacecraft Operations Building today. The spacecraft will undergo rigorous testing before it is finally mated to its Saturn V launch vehicle for launching later this year. It will be the first Apollo to fly with men aboard a Saturn V. The crew will be Astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr., and William A. Anders.”
Dated: August 21, 1968
This photo provides an excellent view of the umbilical fairing that bridges the Command & Service Modules. Note the cabling and wiring feeding into/through it...basically serving as the spinal cord between the two spacecraft components.
Along that line, and neither here nor there...but, where IS the Service Module? I've only seen photos of the entire CSM combo lowered/raised into/out of the MSOB altitude chamber. Was this ‘unaccompanied’ test unique to Command Module 103?
Who knew, right?!