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“Overall view of BP-6 command module and launch escape system on adapter ring in firing position at Apollo-Little Joe II launch area, WSMR, N. M.”

 

I love the austere ‘field expedient/field exercise’ look, and how it’s accentuated from/by this elevated perspective.

 

1963, six years before Apollo 11.

Unprecedented.

Never to be replicated. IMHO at least.

 

In color:

 

pin.it/1vzHM29sI

 

Along with other excellent photographs of BP-6…and a whole lot more:

 

georgesrockets.com/GRP/Scale/DATA/JoePhotos2.html

 

Specifically:

 

georgesrockets.com/GRP/Scale/DATA/JoePhotos5/s6313884.jpg

Both above credit: the wonderful website of Mr. George Gassaway, “GEORGE’S ROCKETRY PAGES”

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Uploaded on February 22, 2022