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Voskhod 1 descent module, 1964
The three cosmonauts' couches inside Voskhod were only fitted with difficulty, making the crew crane their necks to see the instrument panels. With no space for a means of escape to be fitted, a retrorocket slowed the spacecraft as it returned to Earth, enabling the cosmnauts to remain on board for the entire mission.
[Science Museum]
Taken from the Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age exhibition at the Science Museum (September 2015 to March 2016).
Module 3 has arrived which means I have all the parts from Marlin to finish the build. Still loads to source from other places though
- Bonnet top panels pre-curved but over sized to allow fitting
Voskhod 1 descent module, 1964
The three cosmonauts' couches inside Voskhod were only fitted with difficulty, making the crew crane their necks to see the instrument panels. With no space for a means of escape to be fitted, a retrorocket slowed the spacecraft as it returned to Earth, enabling the cosmnauts to remain on board for the entire mission.
[Science Museum]
Taken from the Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age exhibition at the Science Museum (September 2015 to March 2016).
Liz and I ventured to Kennedy Space Center for our nerdy Valentine's day date. Cool, huh? We wanted to be different.
An Apollo command module, which was launch on the Saturn V.
Kansas Cosmosphere
The Apollo Lunar Module was the only true manned spacecraft ever built. It was only meant to operate in the unique conditions of space. Since it only had to operate in the 1/6th gravity of the Moon, the spacecraft's structure was reduced to such a point that a flight-ready LM would not even support its own weight on Earth. The LM's unusual spider-like appearance was due to the fact that its designers never had worry about aerodynamics for it would only operate in the vacuum of space.
Since the LM did not incorporate a protective heatshield, none ever returned to Earth in one piece. After a mission was completed, the LM was either sent crashing back into the lunar surface, or allowed to burn up on reentry through the Earth's atmosphere. Due to this fact, the craft before you is one of the few Lunar Modules left in existence.
This specific Lunar Module was built by the Grumman Corporation- NASA's prime contractor for the LM. The spacecraft was originally built as an engineering test structure and has been restored by the Cosmosphere, complete with many flight-ready components