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a17_v_c_o_TPMBK (108-KSC-72C-2033)

Pre-flight documentation photo of Command Module America's guidance, navigation and control panels, to include sextant, optics interfaces and the LEB Display Keyboard Panel. A number of oft-published in-flight photos of the crew were taken in front of these panels during their return to earth, to include:

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/AS17-163-24137HR.jpg

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/AS17-163-24144HR.jpg

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/AS17-163-24151HR.jpg

and of course,

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/AS17-163-24149HR.jpg

 

Interesting to compare the 'Optics Control Panel', aka 'Panel 122' - below the eyepieces - to that of the Apollo 16 Command Module...I assume the nomenclature, specifically the VERB/NOUN list had not changed between flights:

 

history.nasa.gov/afj/ap16fj/pics/p122_optics_control_l.JPG

Credit: Bruce M. Yarbro & The Smithsonian Institution

 

A FANTASTIC contextual diagram:

 

history.nasa.gov/afj/ap16fj/pics/cm_nav_stn.jpg

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Uploaded on February 15, 2017