a_v_bw_o_n (ca. 1967-71, unnumbered poss. NAA/NAR or NASA photo)
An exquisite ca. 1967-71 (total SWAG) cutaway diagram of the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM), with Launch Escape System (LES). The image was possibly originally created for & contained within the “Apollo Spacecraft News Reference” manual. Over the course of the Apollo Program, the manual was revised several times to more accurately reflect changes, updates, additions, etc., to hardware, timelines (maybe?), etc.
As such, because of the featureless non-ribbed SM radiator panels, I think this to be an earlier/initial rendering, subsequently updated with the callouts “REACTION CONTROL ENGINES (QUAD)” and “HIGH-GAIN (DEEP SPACE) ANTENNA”. They can be seen to be affixed to the original image, likely over what was originally printed. Another version bears “RCS QUAD” and “S-BAND HIGH GAIN ANTENNA” respectively.
Who knows what other versions have? Who knows how many revisions were made? I’d expect the source material for the CSM news reference to have been primarily of NAA/NAR origin, hence the talented unidentified artist responsible to have been under their employ.
Speaking of exquisite:
heroicrelics.org/info/csm/csm-general.html#csmcanr
Credit: Mike Jetzer/heroicrelics.org
In exquisite color:
www.apolloproject.com/diagrams/csm-diagram-tempi.jpg
Credit: APOLLOPROJECT.com website
a_v_bw_o_n (ca. 1967-71, unnumbered poss. NAA/NAR or NASA photo)
An exquisite ca. 1967-71 (total SWAG) cutaway diagram of the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM), with Launch Escape System (LES). The image was possibly originally created for & contained within the “Apollo Spacecraft News Reference” manual. Over the course of the Apollo Program, the manual was revised several times to more accurately reflect changes, updates, additions, etc., to hardware, timelines (maybe?), etc.
As such, because of the featureless non-ribbed SM radiator panels, I think this to be an earlier/initial rendering, subsequently updated with the callouts “REACTION CONTROL ENGINES (QUAD)” and “HIGH-GAIN (DEEP SPACE) ANTENNA”. They can be seen to be affixed to the original image, likely over what was originally printed. Another version bears “RCS QUAD” and “S-BAND HIGH GAIN ANTENNA” respectively.
Who knows what other versions have? Who knows how many revisions were made? I’d expect the source material for the CSM news reference to have been primarily of NAA/NAR origin, hence the talented unidentified artist responsible to have been under their employ.
Speaking of exquisite:
heroicrelics.org/info/csm/csm-general.html#csmcanr
Credit: Mike Jetzer/heroicrelics.org
In exquisite color:
www.apolloproject.com/diagrams/csm-diagram-tempi.jpg
Credit: APOLLOPROJECT.com website