a_v_c_o_AKP (NAA photo no. 7008-90-78A, 3-15-68)
An interesting view of the audience/gallery of observers, I assume composed primarily of NASA personnel, watching three television monitors of the activities within the Command Module mockup in the background, at the North American Rockwell (NAR) plant in Downey, CA.
Thanks to Mr. Ed Hengeveld, what’s transpiring here is a stowage review using the mockup, conducted March 15, 1968. Participating were (then) Apollo 8 astronauts McDivitt, Scott & Schweickart, plus their backups Conrad & Gordon. Later in the day, the test was repeated by Apollo 9 astronauts Borman, Collins & Anders. Possibly, their backups, Armstrong, Lovell & Aldrin also participated, Aldrin at the very least.
In the below linked photograph (of Aldrin), what I erroneously thought was a device to display a simulated exterior view out the window, is instead one of three CCTV cameras documenting activities inside the Command Module.
Note also the diagrams below each television monitor, providing the position & field-of-view of its respective television camera. A Service Module mockup is visible in the background to the upper right.
From the day before, March 14:
NASA announced to the public that program officials had decided to use a 60-percent-oxygen and 40-percent-nitrogen atmosphere in the Apollo spacecraft cabin while on the launch pad (and to retain the pure-oxygen environment in space). This technical decision - because of the earlier tragedy with Apollo 204 over a year earlier - was subjected to closer public scrutiny than perhaps any comparable decision in the history of the U.S. space program. The change affected only ground operations and support equipment and did not necessitate any major changes in the spacecraft itself. Exhaustive testing of the redesigned interior of the vehicle since October 1967 had demonstrated that the risk of fire inside the spacecraft had been drastically reduced. Hardware changes inside the cabin, spokesmen said, had minimized possible sources of ignition and materials changes had vastly reduced the danger of fire propagation.
NASA News Release 68-47, "Apollo Spacecraft Cabin Atmosphere," March 14, 1968."
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a_v_c_o_AKP (NAA photo no. 7008-90-78A, 3-15-68)
An interesting view of the audience/gallery of observers, I assume composed primarily of NASA personnel, watching three television monitors of the activities within the Command Module mockup in the background, at the North American Rockwell (NAR) plant in Downey, CA.
Thanks to Mr. Ed Hengeveld, what’s transpiring here is a stowage review using the mockup, conducted March 15, 1968. Participating were (then) Apollo 8 astronauts McDivitt, Scott & Schweickart, plus their backups Conrad & Gordon. Later in the day, the test was repeated by Apollo 9 astronauts Borman, Collins & Anders. Possibly, their backups, Armstrong, Lovell & Aldrin also participated, Aldrin at the very least.
In the below linked photograph (of Aldrin), what I erroneously thought was a device to display a simulated exterior view out the window, is instead one of three CCTV cameras documenting activities inside the Command Module.
Note also the diagrams below each television monitor, providing the position & field-of-view of its respective television camera. A Service Module mockup is visible in the background to the upper right.
From the day before, March 14:
NASA announced to the public that program officials had decided to use a 60-percent-oxygen and 40-percent-nitrogen atmosphere in the Apollo spacecraft cabin while on the launch pad (and to retain the pure-oxygen environment in space). This technical decision - because of the earlier tragedy with Apollo 204 over a year earlier - was subjected to closer public scrutiny than perhaps any comparable decision in the history of the U.S. space program. The change affected only ground operations and support equipment and did not necessitate any major changes in the spacecraft itself. Exhaustive testing of the redesigned interior of the vehicle since October 1967 had demonstrated that the risk of fire inside the spacecraft had been drastically reduced. Hardware changes inside the cabin, spokesmen said, had minimized possible sources of ignition and materials changes had vastly reduced the danger of fire propagation.
NASA News Release 68-47, "Apollo Spacecraft Cabin Atmosphere," March 14, 1968."
From/at: