Apollo Command Module - April 1980 - Shot on Film
I don't recall which of the Apollo command modules this one is. It might have been Apollo 7, the first manned flight following the tragic events of the Apollo 1 fire, or if it was 8 (the first orbital trip around the moon), or if it was the Big One, Apollo 11, the one that took Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins to the moon for the first landing and manned walk on the lunar surface.
Probably during the day there would have been more people hovering around this spacecraft. (I'm sure the summer months were really busy.) You can see by the coats, sweaters and jackets that it was still early spring (April 1980) and the days were just beginning to get longer.
You can see the X-15 at the top right (more on that later), and below it a rocket that I can't remember what it was designed for -- perhaps to send satellites up in. And then we see at the upper left the Wright Brothers' airplane and perhaps an earlier model they tested out to the right of that.
This photo was shot with my Vivitar 400 S/L 35mm camera, using (I think) a Vivitar 50mm lens. I used Eastman Kodak 5247 motion picture stock (negative), rated at ASA 100. The image was scanned at Samy's Camera in Pasadena, California.
Apollo Command Module - April 1980 - Shot on Film
I don't recall which of the Apollo command modules this one is. It might have been Apollo 7, the first manned flight following the tragic events of the Apollo 1 fire, or if it was 8 (the first orbital trip around the moon), or if it was the Big One, Apollo 11, the one that took Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins to the moon for the first landing and manned walk on the lunar surface.
Probably during the day there would have been more people hovering around this spacecraft. (I'm sure the summer months were really busy.) You can see by the coats, sweaters and jackets that it was still early spring (April 1980) and the days were just beginning to get longer.
You can see the X-15 at the top right (more on that later), and below it a rocket that I can't remember what it was designed for -- perhaps to send satellites up in. And then we see at the upper left the Wright Brothers' airplane and perhaps an earlier model they tested out to the right of that.
This photo was shot with my Vivitar 400 S/L 35mm camera, using (I think) a Vivitar 50mm lens. I used Eastman Kodak 5247 motion picture stock (negative), rated at ASA 100. The image was scanned at Samy's Camera in Pasadena, California.