AS-201 (CM-009)_v_bw_o_n (108-KSC-65-26992)
“Erection of Launch Escape System for Command Module 009 on Pad 34”
The exquisite resolution & detail in these early photographs is just amazing.
The large white object to the right is the white room! Is that cool or what?! And a whole lotta duct tape going on.
More ‘importantly’, having often seen them on early Block I Command Modules being prepared for flight, what the hell are those “REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT” disks? And some/most have that central protruding HAL-like ‘eye’. What’s up with that as well? I can’t correlate their placements to anything that I’m familiar with on the capsules. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Finally, for what little it’s worth, THIS is the Command Module that was on display at Expo ’67 in Montreal, Canada - NOT CM-011 - as has been propagated by NASA, hence nearly everyone else, since day 1.
How can a blatant blunder of such magnitude, 1.) be perpetrated, and 2.) persist…for over five and a half decades??? And counting. Seriously. How?
AS-201 (CM-009)_v_bw_o_n (108-KSC-65-26992)
“Erection of Launch Escape System for Command Module 009 on Pad 34”
The exquisite resolution & detail in these early photographs is just amazing.
The large white object to the right is the white room! Is that cool or what?! And a whole lotta duct tape going on.
More ‘importantly’, having often seen them on early Block I Command Modules being prepared for flight, what the hell are those “REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT” disks? And some/most have that central protruding HAL-like ‘eye’. What’s up with that as well? I can’t correlate their placements to anything that I’m familiar with on the capsules. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Finally, for what little it’s worth, THIS is the Command Module that was on display at Expo ’67 in Montreal, Canada - NOT CM-011 - as has been propagated by NASA, hence nearly everyone else, since day 1.
How can a blatant blunder of such magnitude, 1.) be perpetrated, and 2.) persist…for over five and a half decades??? And counting. Seriously. How?