a (BP06/PA-1)_v_bw_o_n (S-63-13884)
“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:
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”
a (BP06/PA-1)_v_bw_o_n (S-63-13884)
“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:
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”