a11_v_c_o_AKP (108-KSC-69C-3968)
“Landing and Ascent facility, Flight Crew Training Building, KSC, 13 May 1969.”
An excellent view of Apollo Landing Site 3, mounted overhead, in the Landing and Ascent Facility, Kennedy Space Center. Manufactured by the United States Army Topographic Command, the relief model was used by the Apollo 11 Astronauts while training in the Lunar Module Simulator a few feet away. Site 3, in the southwestern portion of Sinus Medii, was a back-up landing site for Armstrong & Aldrin.
www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2016/0527-lunar-farsi...
Credit: The Planetary Society website
Within ALS 3, Ellipse/Site II-P-8 constitutes roughly the left two-thirds of the model, as seen here:
crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/crgis/images/7/74/L68-11026.jpg
Credit: NASA CRgis website
See/read also:
www.drewexmachina.com/2017/02/05/lunar-orbiter-3-preparin...
Credit: Drew Ex Machina website/Andrew LePage. Fantastically informative as always, although the image is misidentified as being (as I read it), THE Apollo 11 landing site. When in fact, it is A landing site, a back-up.
An excellent photographic documentation of one of these relief models being transported and installed, Apollo 15 in this instance:
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/a15SiteModel.html
Credit: ALSJ website
a11_v_c_o_AKP (108-KSC-69C-3968)
“Landing and Ascent facility, Flight Crew Training Building, KSC, 13 May 1969.”
An excellent view of Apollo Landing Site 3, mounted overhead, in the Landing and Ascent Facility, Kennedy Space Center. Manufactured by the United States Army Topographic Command, the relief model was used by the Apollo 11 Astronauts while training in the Lunar Module Simulator a few feet away. Site 3, in the southwestern portion of Sinus Medii, was a back-up landing site for Armstrong & Aldrin.
www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2016/0527-lunar-farsi...
Credit: The Planetary Society website
Within ALS 3, Ellipse/Site II-P-8 constitutes roughly the left two-thirds of the model, as seen here:
crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/crgis/images/7/74/L68-11026.jpg
Credit: NASA CRgis website
See/read also:
www.drewexmachina.com/2017/02/05/lunar-orbiter-3-preparin...
Credit: Drew Ex Machina website/Andrew LePage. Fantastically informative as always, although the image is misidentified as being (as I read it), THE Apollo 11 landing site. When in fact, it is A landing site, a back-up.
An excellent photographic documentation of one of these relief models being transported and installed, Apollo 15 in this instance:
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/a15SiteModel.html
Credit: ALSJ website