a13_v_bw_o_n (unnumbered, 70-H-379 companion)
“LANDING SITE – So that the Apollo astronauts could practice their landing, NASA and the Army map service worked together to produce this 14 by 22 foot scale model of the touchdown area. When the pilots move their controls, a TV camera moves over the model. The picture is projected on the pilots’ windows. Dotted line indicates approach path of Aquarius. Lovell and Haise hope to hike from the landing craft to the rim of Cone crater, the most clean cut of the four atop the dome at left.”
I've flipped the photo in order to match the map/chart version of it.
The LM & its path are meticulously affixed (I assume by whatever news service of the time) to the photo, although way off the actual target landing point. Par for this abomination and its two-dimensional predecessor.
How did this get this far, to the point NASA actually fabricated this piece of crap?? Possibly a/the contractual obligation with the Army? The Richard Dreyfuss character’s mashed potato representation of Devil’s Tower was more representative of the real thing:
giphy.com/gifs/richard-dreyfuss-jywqrA0aCBTG0
Credit: Giphy.com website
An excellent documentation of one of these being transported and installed, in this instance Hadley-Apennine (Apollo 15):
a13_v_bw_o_n (unnumbered, 70-H-379 companion)
“LANDING SITE – So that the Apollo astronauts could practice their landing, NASA and the Army map service worked together to produce this 14 by 22 foot scale model of the touchdown area. When the pilots move their controls, a TV camera moves over the model. The picture is projected on the pilots’ windows. Dotted line indicates approach path of Aquarius. Lovell and Haise hope to hike from the landing craft to the rim of Cone crater, the most clean cut of the four atop the dome at left.”
I've flipped the photo in order to match the map/chart version of it.
The LM & its path are meticulously affixed (I assume by whatever news service of the time) to the photo, although way off the actual target landing point. Par for this abomination and its two-dimensional predecessor.
How did this get this far, to the point NASA actually fabricated this piece of crap?? Possibly a/the contractual obligation with the Army? The Richard Dreyfuss character’s mashed potato representation of Devil’s Tower was more representative of the real thing:
giphy.com/gifs/richard-dreyfuss-jywqrA0aCBTG0
Credit: Giphy.com website
An excellent documentation of one of these being transported and installed, in this instance Hadley-Apennine (Apollo 15):