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sa500F (poss) (ca. 1966, internet download, credit - DonColeCartoons blog)

Posted in honor of Don Cole, former "NASA Spacecraft Photographer", in conjunction with the below linked photographs.

 

Per Mr. Cole's caption of the photograph, from his blog "DonColeCartoons":

 

"NASA Spacecraft Photographers at work. Donald Cole, on the left; Ken Lee, on the right. Cape Canaveral, Florida, 1960’s."

 

At:

 

doncolecartoons.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/where-i-was-when...

 

The outward appearance of the M-11 Command/Service Module (CSM) combination in this photograph and that of the below linked stacking photograph leads to my associating it with the SA-500F Facilities Verification Vehicle.

However, if so though, where's the circumferential black aft portion of the Service Module? Painted on later? Or is there something else going on here?

 

FANTASTIC:

 

www.capcomespace.net/dossiers/espace_US/apollo/vaisseaux/...

Credit: The consistently amazing "CAPCOM ESPACE" website

 

Regardless of all of the above, Thank You Mr. Cole!

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Uploaded on October 3, 2022