a04 (AS-501)_v_bw_o_n (S-68-18503)
“APOLLO 4 RECOVERY---The Apollo Spacecraft 017 Command Module is lowered onto a dolly on the deck of the USS Bennington, prime recovery ship for the Apollo 4 (Spacecraft 017/Saturn 501) unmanned, earth-orbital space mission. The Command Module splashed down at 3:37 p.m. (EST), November 9, 1967, 934 nautical miles northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii. Note charred heat shield caused by extreme heat of reentry.”
A really good description/caption...somewhere, pigs are flying.
Despite the erroneous (to a degree) reference to CM-009 as being a “large” hatch window CM, it was also a “small” hatch window CM – at the same time – addressed and as can be seen at the following wonderful site:
heroicrelics.org/info/apollo-4/apollo-4-hatch.html
Credit: Mike Jetzer/HEROIC RELICS website
And check out the Master-at-Arms...with the baton in his hand, either ready to club the alien that may have snuck onboard, or, being Navy, to make sure no one lifts something from the cockpit.
Just kidding shipmates, just kidding. 😉👍
a04 (AS-501)_v_bw_o_n (S-68-18503)
“APOLLO 4 RECOVERY---The Apollo Spacecraft 017 Command Module is lowered onto a dolly on the deck of the USS Bennington, prime recovery ship for the Apollo 4 (Spacecraft 017/Saturn 501) unmanned, earth-orbital space mission. The Command Module splashed down at 3:37 p.m. (EST), November 9, 1967, 934 nautical miles northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii. Note charred heat shield caused by extreme heat of reentry.”
A really good description/caption...somewhere, pigs are flying.
Despite the erroneous (to a degree) reference to CM-009 as being a “large” hatch window CM, it was also a “small” hatch window CM – at the same time – addressed and as can be seen at the following wonderful site:
heroicrelics.org/info/apollo-4/apollo-4-hatch.html
Credit: Mike Jetzer/HEROIC RELICS website
And check out the Master-at-Arms...with the baton in his hand, either ready to club the alien that may have snuck onboard, or, being Navy, to make sure no one lifts something from the cockpit.
Just kidding shipmates, just kidding. 😉👍