a11_r_bw_o_TPMBK (montage, ca. 1992-97)
“Two years in the making, NASA’s Apollo 11 spacecraft command module looked like this (right upper photo) Dec. 6, 1968, when it passed test and checkout at Rockwell’s Space Systems Division (then known as North American Rockwell’s Space Division), Downey, Calif. Lowered onto dolly, it was shipped to Kennedy Space Center, Fla., where it was launched July 16, 1969. Eight days and more than a million miles later, the command module returned its astronauts to Earth at almost 25,500 miles an hour. A bit charred from the 4,200-degree Earth entry temperatures, it is seen (lower right photo) at Rockwell’s Space Systems Division, as it underwent post test flight exams, which it passed with flying colors. Apollo 11 carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin A[l]drin, Jr. to the moon for the world’s first lunar landing mission.”
Mr. Blanning served as Media Relations Director at Rockwell International Corp. from 1992 - 1997, hence the 'title' info/date approximation.
Appropriate opportunity to share this fantastical link again:
3d.si.edu/apollo11cm/boxes/play-cm-2016-09-26/cm-exterior...
Isn’t it amazing...and fun?!?!?!
a11_r_bw_o_TPMBK (montage, ca. 1992-97)
“Two years in the making, NASA’s Apollo 11 spacecraft command module looked like this (right upper photo) Dec. 6, 1968, when it passed test and checkout at Rockwell’s Space Systems Division (then known as North American Rockwell’s Space Division), Downey, Calif. Lowered onto dolly, it was shipped to Kennedy Space Center, Fla., where it was launched July 16, 1969. Eight days and more than a million miles later, the command module returned its astronauts to Earth at almost 25,500 miles an hour. A bit charred from the 4,200-degree Earth entry temperatures, it is seen (lower right photo) at Rockwell’s Space Systems Division, as it underwent post test flight exams, which it passed with flying colors. Apollo 11 carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin A[l]drin, Jr. to the moon for the world’s first lunar landing mission.”
Mr. Blanning served as Media Relations Director at Rockwell International Corp. from 1992 - 1997, hence the 'title' info/date approximation.
Appropriate opportunity to share this fantastical link again:
3d.si.edu/apollo11cm/boxes/play-cm-2016-09-26/cm-exterior...
Isn’t it amazing...and fun?!?!?!