a_v_c_o_AKP (116-KSC-66C-1816)
“Artist Drawing by North American -- After the final flight path adjustments have been made to assure hitting the 40-mile re-entry corridor the Service Module is discarded.”
This series of Apollo mission ‘milestones’, gorgeously rendered by Gary Meyer on behalf of NAA, may be the final/next to final. The high-gain antenna is representative of the final configuration, it’s a Block II Command Module (CM), and the scimitar antennas, originally incorporated into the pronounced CM strakes, subsequently downsized to the ‘half-moon” disks, although still attached to the CM, are seen here (one of them, that is) in their final location, on the Service Module.
a_v_c_o_AKP (116-KSC-66C-1816)
“Artist Drawing by North American -- After the final flight path adjustments have been made to assure hitting the 40-mile re-entry corridor the Service Module is discarded.”
This series of Apollo mission ‘milestones’, gorgeously rendered by Gary Meyer on behalf of NAA, may be the final/next to final. The high-gain antenna is representative of the final configuration, it’s a Block II Command Module (CM), and the scimitar antennas, originally incorporated into the pronounced CM strakes, subsequently downsized to the ‘half-moon” disks, although still attached to the CM, are seen here (one of them, that is) in their final location, on the Service Module.