a_v_c_o_AKP (NAA photo no. 7008-90-78 "I", 3-15-68)
Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr., is seen sitting in the hatchless opening of what appears to be an Apollo Command Module simulator at – I suppose – North American Aviation’s Downey CA. manufacturing plant, March 15, 1968. The cylindrical, can-like object affixed to the side window may be a projector, to provide simulated views out the side window?
Note the bin in the foreground with a camera (possibly an Intravehicular variety Hasselblad), along with another camera and/or lense(s)?) Possibly to be used for photography training...of simulated views outside the side window?
As of the date of the photograph, Aldrin, Collins & Armstrong had not yet been named as the crew of Apollo 11, which consensus of those in the know has determined, was January 9, 1969.
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Credit: Stephen Isherwood/“APOLLO SPACECRAFT HISTORY” FB group
a_v_c_o_AKP (NAA photo no. 7008-90-78 "I", 3-15-68)
Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr., is seen sitting in the hatchless opening of what appears to be an Apollo Command Module simulator at – I suppose – North American Aviation’s Downey CA. manufacturing plant, March 15, 1968. The cylindrical, can-like object affixed to the side window may be a projector, to provide simulated views out the side window?
Note the bin in the foreground with a camera (possibly an Intravehicular variety Hasselblad), along with another camera and/or lense(s)?) Possibly to be used for photography training...of simulated views outside the side window?
As of the date of the photograph, Aldrin, Collins & Armstrong had not yet been named as the crew of Apollo 11, which consensus of those in the know has determined, was January 9, 1969.
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Credit: Stephen Isherwood/“APOLLO SPACECRAFT HISTORY” FB group