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"Designed for space, but it will never leave the launching pad. A full-size dummy spacecraft - dubbed the Spacecraft Verification Vehicle - is a new feature at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. Once used to train launch crews for the Apollo 4, 6 and 8 moon missions, it is now open to the public."
7" x ~9".
Apollo Spacecraft 101 Command/Service Modules being moved into position for mating with Spacecraft/Lunar Module Adapter (SLA)-5 in the Kennedy Space Center's Manned Spacecraft Operations Building (MSOB). Apollo Spacecraft 101 will be flown on the first manned Apollo space mission, Apollo 7 (Spacecraft 101/Saturn 205).
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PictionID:53763890 - Catalog:14_032112 - Title:Apollo Program Details: Overall View of Apollo Mockup Date: 08/22/1961 - Filename:14_032112.tif - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
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Boilerplate no. 12 (BP-12) prior to being hoisted for mating to a Little Joe II booster, in preparation for a transonic abort test (A-001) of the Launch Escape System.
See also, an awesome site...no longer...DAMN:
georgesrockets.com/GRP/Scale/DATA/JoePhotos/JoePhotos.htm...
Credit: GEORGE'S ROCKETRY PAGES website
Seen here as well...or maybe not anymore:
www.accur8.com/images/LittleJoeII-9.jpg
Credit: John Pursley/Accur8 Spacemodels website
SWAG: Post-recovery photo of stuff inside Apollo 14 Command Module 'Kitty Hawk'. The scuffed & abraded red stripe indicates that at least part of it is Alan Shepard's EMU. Or, it could be David Scott's...from Apollo 15. Or for that matter, it might be an EVA training EMU for one or the other. However, the photo ID number seems to be representative of actual flight photography, although its sequence, when compared to other Apollo 14 & 15 ‘S-71-‘ photographs is problematic.
The tan colored metal plate in the foreground is an adapter bracket used to mount the Hasselblad EL camera in the Command Module rendezvous window. With the 80-mm lens, the camera was aligned along a line pitched up 12° from the x-axis; with the 250-mm lens, the camera was aligned along the x-axis.
I wonder what the brown accordion-like thing is? Reminds me of what vacuum cleaner bags looked like a LONG time ago.
The Apollo 1 Command Module, CM-012, is loaded aboard an Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy…at (I assume) an airstrip near/at(?) North American Aviation’s Downey, California plant, August 24, 1966.
The ill-fated spacecraft was received at KSC on August 26, 1966.
Verification Vehicle Being Moved to Launch Complex 34.
Photo and content downloaded from the "RICHES of Central Florida" website. They have additional wonderful, good quality and seldom seen photos at the site! Cut/paste pertaining to this photo are as follows:
DESCRIPTION:
An Apollo verification vehicle being moved from the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building (MSOB) (MSOB) at John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) industrial Area to Launch Pad 34 in Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS). Verification vehicles are complete or mostly versions of mission-ready vehicles used to test logistics, vehicle performance, and other mission critical factors. The building was renamed in honor of Neil Armstrong in 2014 to the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building.
SOURCE:
Original black and white photographic print, September 3, 1965: Space Walk of Fame Collection.
DATE CREATED:
1965-09-03
CONTRIBUTOR:
Chronopoints
IS FORMAT OF:
Digital reproduction of original black and white photographic print, September 3, 1965.
IS PART OF:
Florida Space Coast History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
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White Sands Missile Range personnel are shown loading Boilerplate 23 (BP-23) onto a transport carrier, following the successful flight to test the Apollo LES. The boilerplate was only slightly damaged. A Little Joe II was the launch vehicle.
"The Apollo 12 Command and Service Modules are lifted from a test stand in preparation for mating to adapter containing the Lunar Module. The complete Apollo spacecraft later was transported to the Vehicle Assembly Building and mated to a Saturn V launch vehicle within High Bay 3."
"Command and Service Module 106 (CSM-106), scheduled to fly the Apollo 10 mission, is moved from a workstand at KSC in preparation for mating to its Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA), 31 January 1969."
This Apollo command module, nicknamed "Casper" by its crew, was launched on April 16th, 1972 and took astronauts John Young (later to command the first Space Shuttle flight), Ken Mattingly, and Charles Duke on an 11 day journey to the moon and back.
A rather distorted panorama of the Rocket Garden at Kennedy Space Centre, Cape Canaveral. We can see rockets from the Gemini, Atlas, Mercury Missions as well as a complete Saturn V launcher as used to carry the Apollo missions. And to the right hand side is the Service Arm from the Apollo 11 launch gantry which was the last place on earth Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins stood before their lunar mission on 16th July 1969.
The Apollo 17 Command Module, with astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans and Harrison H. Schmitt aboard, splashes down in the South Pacific Ocean to successfully conclude the final lunar landing mission in NASA's Apollo program. This view was taken from a recovery aircraft at nearly the moment the spacecraft hit the water. The splashdown occurred at 304:31:59 ground elapsed time, 1:24:59 p.m. (CST) December 19, 1972, at coordinates of 166 degrees 8 minutes west longitude and 27 degrees 53 minutes south latitude, about 350 nautical miles southeast of the Samoan Islands. The splashdown was less than a mile from the target point.
Apollo 15 Command & Service Module (CSM), with Al Worden driving, during rendezvous and docking procedures with the Ascent Stage.
Looking E-SE at the eastern edge of Mare Tranquillitatis.
Correct photo ID is AS15-88-11974.
Image from the Roger Belstein Collection--Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
“Orbit and Launch Facility Concept
This is a concept drawing of an orbit and launch facility. It was to use a nuclear SNAP-II nuclear power supply at the end of the long telescoping boom. Nuclear reactors were considered dangerous, which is why in this concept drawing it was located so far away from the habitat part of the station. Creators envisioned the structure being built in orbit to allow assembly of the station in orbit which could be then larger than anything that could be launched from Earth. The two main modules were to be 33 feet in diameter and 40 feet in length. When combined the modules would create a four-deck facility, 2 decks to be used for laboratory space and 2 decks for operations and living quarters. The facility also allowed for servicing and launch of a space vehicle. Though the station was designed to operate in micro- gravity, it would also have an artificial gravity capability.”
The above & image is at/from the below linked “NASA on The Commons” Flickr image…
…and it’s WRONG.
It’s the “Scientific Laboratory Facility” component of an overall “Orbital Facility”, NOT the “Orbital Launch Facility” (OLF) component, or as the NAsSA dumbasses refer to it; “Orbit and Launch Facility.”
Yet again, inexcusable NasSA buffoonery by those responsible for providing image descriptions/captions knows no limits. My guess regarding the botched nomenclature: “orbital”, being a rather complex multisyllabic word and not in their rudimentary vocabulary, was interpreted to be “orbit and…”, especially if pronounced quickly or through stupidity-induced slurring.
So, not surprisingly, here we are, with another erroneous NasSA identification, further muddled by an inaccurate mash-up of otherwise useful info, that’s been blindly & mindlessly propagated for ~50 years…and counting.
Take another bow NAsSA ass clowns (retroactively & currently), as you continue the abysmal tradition of mangling your own rich visual record. Yet…perplexingly…y’all are unfoundedly arrogant tools. Why??? You’re the equivalent of the Keystone Cops!!! As such, you merit NO RESPECT, hence my relentless sophomoric beratement. BTW, for any NAsSA-holes that bumbled your way here, beratement means “putting you down.”
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Thanks to Scott Lowther, at his “Aerospace Projects Review” website, we have the following, to include the image & several enlightening diagrams:
“Designed in April of 1962, this NASA-Marshall Future Projects Branch design for a space station was to serve as both a scientific research facility and as an orbital launch facility (OLF). The research station concept is straightforward enough, but the OLF is more interesting.
At the time, it was just accepted that by the end of the decade Apollo would have proven successful… and was to have been merely the first step in the conquest of space. Lunar bases and missions to Mars would have followed soon on the heels of the Apollo program. To support these expected missions, the OLF would have served as a construction facility in space. Unlike many later orbital construction facilities, this OLF would have a telescoping hangar, providing a long cylindrical shield to protect the spacecraft and those working on it from excessive sunlight and micrometeoroids. Additionally, it would provide a controlled lighting environment.
The facility would be launched in two components, each on a Saturn C-5 and both initially unmanned. The scientific research base would have a 30-kilowatt nuclear powerplant and would be made from a Saturn S-IC liquid oxygen tank. The OLF would similarly use an S-IC LOX tank as a basis and would dock to the scientific base once on orbit.
A 10-man crew would be needed for orbital launch operations, and a further 15 for the scientific base.
Mr. Lowther astutely captioned the image as “Scientific lab with reactor extended.”
All at:
www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=466
So, the “Orbital Launch Facility” would dock with the depicted “Scientific Laboratory Facility”…on the right end. In addition to the telescoping hangar, the OLF would have a similarly pressurized/shirtsleeve-environment section, composed of two decks of checkout equipment and a third deck with vehicle repair & maintenance equipment. The telescoping hangar segment would extend out from this core/base section. Even a “Mobile Boarding Capsule” was envisioned as operating within the hangar. In fact, the bottom diagram at the following link depicts it docked to the lunar?/interplanetary? (Mars?) Saturn C-5-derived vehicle berthed within the hangar:
www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2...
Credit: Scott Lowther/”Aerospace Projects Review” website
Last but NOT least, a WIN. I’ve been able to identify the artist of this masterpiece as Euel Dean Cagle, who understandably, went by “Dean”. Mr. Cagle was a NASA-MFSC artist, born December 1925 and died January 2002, with unfortunately no additional information…as of yet. Also, per a blurb in the May 1979 issue of “NASA Activities”, he’s identified as being responsible for the final design and artwork for the original/official Space Telescope Program "badge"… i.e., the Hubble Space Telescope.
The cover of the booklet for another of my old TI99/4A games.
From the '80s, when the graphics promoting the game were better than those in the game.
This was a fun game, though; certainly, of the original TI ones, probably my favourite (not including Atarisoft games like Defender).
“This view of the Skylab 4 Command/Service Module in a docked configuration is a frame from a roll of movie film exposed by a 16mm Maurer camera. The other four components of the Skylab space station in Earth orbit are out of view to the right. This picture was taken by astronaut Gerald P. Carr, Skylab 4 commander, during the final Skylab extravehicular activity (EVA) which took place on Feb. 3, 1974. The crew members -- Gerald Carr, Edward Gibson and William Pogue -- were the first NASA astronauts to spend New Year's in space. A week earlier, they became the first crew to perform an EVA on Christmas day.”
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/skylab/skylab4/html/s...
Also:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Skylab_4_-_co...
Men and capsule survive the blazing re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
by Charles Coombs
Scholastic Books, Inc., 1965
The American Apollo spacecraft as seen in Earth orbit from the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft during the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission. The Command/Service Module and Docking Module are contrasted against a black-sky background. This is a near "head on" view of the Apollo. This picture was furnished by the USSR in an exchange of photography taken during the ASTP flight. Note the docking mechanism and docking target on the Docking Module. The four dish-like reflectors of the unified S-band high-gain antenna protrude from the side of the Service Module. The American and Soviet spacecraft were joined together in space for approximately 47 hours on July 17-18-19, 1975.
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Credit: Framepool website
Astronaut Alfred M. Worden, Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot, floats in space outside the spacecraft during his trans-Earth extravehicular activity (EVA). This photograph was taken from a frame of motion picture film exposed by the 16mm Maurer camera mounted in the hatch of the Command Module (CM). During his EVA, Worden made an inspection of the Service Module's Scientific Instrument Module (SIM) bay and retrieved the film cassettes from the Panoramic Camera and the Mapping Camera. The SIM bay holds eight orbital science experiments. The EVA occurred when the spacecraft was homeward bound approximately 171,000 nautical miles from Earth.
R.I.P. Col. Worden, with heartfelt thanks.
1/20th scale Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) and Command/Service Module (CSM) engineering models depicting docked configuration and LEM descent to surface, ca. 1966.
Lithograph.
To the Moon: Project Apollo and the U.S. Air Force
The goal of Project Apollo was to land astronauts on the moon and return them safely to Earth. Beating the Soviets to the moon in the "space race" of the 1960s was an important part of the Cold War competition between the United States and the USSR for prestige and world leadership in science and technology.
NASA had contemplated a journey to the moon since its formation in 1958. Rivalry with the USSR in space "firsts" was intense, and the Soviets had scored important victories -- launching Sputnik, the world's first satellite, and sending the first man into space. The moon landing project was the biggest prize in the space race. It became a national goal in 1961 when President John F. Kennedy proposed that the United States complete this difficult task before 1970.
Developing the ability to travel to the moon and carry out lunar scientific exploration established American preeminence in space technology. Project Apollo achieved six lunar landings between 1969 and 1972, in which 12 astronauts walked on the moon. The U.S. Air Force role in Apollo was important and varied, and included biomedical research and testing, launch and recovery support, and airborne telemetry and tracking. Of the 29 astronauts who flew Apollo missions, 14 were Air Force officers or had Air Force experience.
Apollo 15 Command Module Endeavor
Apollo 15 was the fourth mission to land astronauts on the moon and the only Apollo mission with an all-Air Force crew. Col. David R. Scott, Lt. Col. James B. Irwin and Maj. Alfred M. Worden flew the command module on display, named Endeavor, to the moon in 1971. The craft is named after the ship that carried Capt. James Cook on his famous 18th century scientific voyage.
After launch on July 26, 1971, the crew spent four days traveling to the moon. On July 30, Scott and Irwin landed the lunar module Falcon on the moon, and spent about 67 hours on the lunar surface. Worden remained aboard Endeavor in lunar orbit conducting experiments and taking photographs. The crew returned to Earth on Aug. 7, 1971, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. The successful mission lasted just over 12 days.
The three major Apollo spacecraft components were the command module, the service module and the lunar module. The service module carried equipment, plus support and propulsion systems, while the lunar module took two crewman to the moon's surface. Like earlier Mercury and Gemini spacecraft, the Apollo command module re-entered Earth's atmosphere blunt-end first. A protective heat shield made of epoxy resins in a metal honeycomb charred away as the spacecraft slowed in the atmosphere, shedding the nearly 3,000-degree (F) heat of re-entry. Parachutes then slowed the spacecraft for a landing in the Pacific Ocean. One of Apollo 15's three parachutes failed, and Endeavor hit the water somewhat faster than the anticipated 29-36 mph, but no crewmen were injured.
The command module, made by North American Rockwell Corp., is 10 feet, 7 inches tall, 12 feet, 10 inches wide, and 12,952 pounds at launch. The space for three crewmen inside is about 210 cubic feet, about the same as an average minivan. The crew compartment contained navigation equipment, controls and displays, and other equipment. The lower part of the spacecraft housed plumbing, wiring, fuel and reaction control engines, while the upper part contained re-entry parachutes and a hatch for passage to the lunar module. The hatch on the side of the spacecraft was used for entry before launch and exit after returning to Earth, and is located above the middle of three side-by-side astronaut couches.
The Apollo 14 Command Module Kitty Hawk is on display at the Saturn V Centre building at KSC after being on display at the nearby Astronaut Hall of Fame for several years.
Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the American Apollo program, and the third to land on the Moon. It was the last of the "H missions", targeted landings with two-day stays on the Moon with two lunar EVAs, or moonwalks.
At the beginning of the mission, the CSM Kitty Hawk had difficulty achieving capture and docking with the LM Antares. Repeated attempts to dock went on for 1 hour and 42 minutes, until it was suggested that pilot Roosa hold Kitty Hawk against Antares using its thrusters, then the docking probe would be retracted out of the way, hopefully triggering the docking latches. This attempt was successful, and no further docking problems were encountered during the mission.
Kitty Hawk splashed down in the South Pacific Ocean on February 9, 1971 at 21:05 [UTC], approximately 760 nautical miles south of American Samoa.
Post-flight documentation photo of the umbilical fairing interface of Apollo 11 Command Module (Columbia). See the two subsequent photos in this album for context/orientation, both pre- and in-flight.
The fairing, which remained attached to the Service Module at jettison, housed the veritable "nervous system" pathway between the Service Module and Command Module during the mission.
Apollo 17 Command/Service Module (CSM) “America” viewed from Lunar Module “Challenger”, taken during the Translunar Coast TLC.
Original film magazine was labeled NN. Film type was SO-368 Color Ektachrome MS CEX, Color Reversal, 80mm lens.