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NORTH AMERICAN ROCKWELL
APOLLO COMMAND MODULE (MOCKUP)
The Apollo command module is the NASA spacecraft that flew astronauts from the Earth to the Moon and back.
In 1961, NASA awarded the contract for the command module to then North American Aviation. It was a continuation of the "capsule" spacecraft design used in the Mercury and Gemini Programs. The Apollo command module was larger to accommodate three astronauts and used advanced computers and navigational equipment on the longer lunar flights. For most of the flight, the command module was attached to the service module which contained the propulsion, environmental, electrical, control and fuel systems.
Unlike the previous NASA spacecraft, the Apollo command module was built with a docking assembly and hatch so that it could dock with the lunar module. The lunar module would detach and land on the moon with two astronauts leaving the command module and its pilot in lunar orbit until their return.
Thirty-five command modules were built, with 15 of them being launched on manned space missions. These included eleven Apollo missions, three Skylab missions, and the Apollo Soyuz Test Project. The rest of the modules were used in various Earthbound tests or unmanned test flights.
This command module mockup was built by North American Rockwell for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite during their reporting of the Apollo missions. Made up of surplus command module panels, equipment, couches and other parts, it gave television viewers a visual of the interior of the spacecraft. During the Apollo missions, there was limited live and recorded footage for use by the networks. Mockups, models, graphics and other visual aids were important tools for reporters to help fill in the visual narrative of an Apollo mission.
The mockup was later used in the Ron Howard & Tom Hanks HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. In the miniseries, the mockup was used by Emmett Seaborn, a fictitious news anchor with the fictitious NTC network.
Technical Specifications (Command Module Without Service Module):
Length: 30 ft-10 in
Diameter: 10 ft-7 in
Interior 210 cubic feet
Weight: 12.251 Ibs. (without service module)
Crew: 3
“North American Aviation, prime contractor for the Apollo spacecraft, named the command module, will carry the astronauts and all of the control instruments. Approximate width of the module is 13' and 12' high. Shown here is a full-scale preliminary model. Standing next to the spacecraft are two North American Aviation representatives.”
A great view of the opened up mock-up at:
darkroom-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/2017/01/BSHIST-AGV-219-BS_F...
Also:
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/001198.html
Credit: collectSPACE website
The Apollo 4 command module on display inside the INFINITY Science Center and NASA visitor center for the John C. Stennis Space Center near Pearlington, Mississippi. Apollo 4 launched on 9 November 1967 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
The Museum of Flight’s Apollo Command Module, serial #007, is a Block 1 capsule—built for training and Earth-orbit missions. It is identical to capsule #012, in which astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee died in a fire in 1967.
CM 007 was delivered to NASA in 1966. After serving as a ground test vehicle, CM 007 was modified in 1967 for use in water-survival training. As part of their training, the astronauts inside the capsule were dropped into the Gulf of Mexico by a crane from an aircraft carrier to simulate the force of splashdown. Apollo crews also trained for extended recovery by remaining at sea for several days at a time in the Command Module. Such training prepared astronauts for the possibility of a splashdown far from the planned recovery site.
In 1971, CM 007 was transported to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, where it was exposed to cold water and cold air during testing for the forthcoming Skylab program. The Command Module survived these extremes only to end up in an equipment lot of the Houston Department of Public Works, where it remained for 12 years. In 1988, CM 007 was restored for the Museum by the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center.
Excellent close-up view of Apollo 9 Command Module 'Gumdrop', as it sits on a dolly on the deck of the USS Guadalcanal, shortly after being hoisted from the Atlantic Ocean, 13 March 1969.
Also:
Close-up view of the Apollo 9 Command Module (CM) as it sets on dolly on the deck of the USS Guadalcanal just after being hoisted from the water. The Apollo 9 spacecraft, with astronauts James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott, and Russell L. Schweickart aboard, splashed down at 12:00:53 p.m. (EST), March 13, 1969, only 4.5 nautical miles from the aircraft carrier to conclude a successful 10-day Earth-orbital mission in space.
In color:
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo9/html/s...
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.
Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum
Apollo Boilerplate
The Apollo Boilerplate came into use during the testing phases of the Apollo capsule, and remained active throughout the Apollo space program. The boilerplate was made of steel and simulated the size, weight, shape, and center of gravity of a manned Apollo capsule. The internal section of the boilerplate remained empty, though it was insulated with cork to prevent overheating. The goal of the boilerplate was to test the design of the parachute, drag, and impact tests. Instruments were also set up on the boilerplate to take several different measurements including temperature, heat rates, static loads and aerodynamics. It was also used by U.S. Navy recovery personnel to train for flotation collar installation and retrieval procedures. The use of the Apollo boilerplate ended in 1972 with the conclusion of the Apollo program.
This boilerplate was used for water landing tests and rescue training.
Specifications
Height: 10' 9"
Diameter: 13'
Weight: 10,000 lbs
Operational Life: 1963-1972
Inside the Apollo 10 Command Module, Science Museum, London. Panel 2 of the Main Display Console is visible with the computer display and keyboard on the left.
Astronaut Ronald E. Evans is photographed performing extravehicular activity during the Apollo 17 spacecraft's trans-Earth coast. During his EVA, Evans, command module pilot, retrieved film cassettes from the lunar sounder, mapping camera and panoramic camera. The cylindrical object at Evans' left side is the mapping camera cassette. The total time for the trans-Earth EVA was one hour, seven minutes, 18 seconds, starting at ground elapsed time of 257:25 (2:28 p.m.) and ending at G.E.T. of 258:42 (3:35 p.m.) on Sunday, Dec. 17, 1972.
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo17/html/...
Oddly, the faint, blurred and basically illegible text on the verso is also reversed - if I'm not mistaken. I've never seen that before. How the hell does that happen? Good thing the photo is drop-dead gorgeous. ;-)
Post-flight documentation photo of Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia's two drogue parachute mortars. The contoured hand rail-like attachment running horizontally between & below the mortars is actually a parachute riser protector. Makes sense, what with the two forward RCS pitch control nozzles immediately below it. The yellow/braided rope-like loop is the sea recovery sling. Also visible along the bottom of the photo are the corners of the two shutters affixed (and taped) over the rendezvous windows. Along with a bunch of other cool & critical stuff that I'm clueless on.
Compare/contrast with:
ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NASM-A19700102000-NASM2...
Credit: NASM website
And of course...THIS!
3d.si.edu/apollo11cm/boxes/play-cm-2016-09-26/cm-exterior...
Documentation/engineering photo of the Apollo 7 Command Module (CM-101), about three weeks after delivery to KSC.
As the first flight of the redesigned CM Unified Crew Hatch, on the first manned mission, documentation, both before and after the mission was most likely incredibly extensive.
The previous hatch design was sadly, a major contributor to the death of the Apollo 1 Crew.
The photograph primarily centers on the pressure equalization valve. The purge port is to the immediate lower left.
Great comparative photo & interesting thread:
external-preview.redd.it/tc0-_4eUyoicCG-3kY03MUP2M16FQy5r...
www.reddit.com/r/MachinePorn/comments/28rxe1/apollo_7_com...
Credit: reddit
Excellent diagram:
heroicrelics.org/info/csm/cm-hatch.html
Credit: Mike Jetzer/heroicrelics.org
www.space1.com/pdf/news1296.pdf
Credit: Historic Space Systems website
CSM-118
This is the Skylab 4 Command Module, which served as the crew cabin for going to and from Skylab, the first U.S. space station. Skylab 4, the third and last of the Skylab missions, was launched on November 16, 1973 with Command and Service Modules CSM-118. The three-person crew, Gerald P. Carr, William R. Pogue, and Edward G. Gibson, spent 84 days on orbit, landing on February 8, 1974. The mission included the observation of the comet Kohoutek, among numerous experiments. The crew completed 1,214 Earth orbits and four extra-vehicular activities totaling 22 hours, 13 minutes.
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"The last mission in NASA's Apollo manned lunar landing program concluded at 2:25 p.m. EST today when the spacecraft carrying Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans and Harrison H. Schmitt safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, 648 kilometers (350 nautical miles) southeast of American Samoa. World-wide television audiences watched recovery highlights via the Pacific Intelsat IV satellite, launched from Cape Kennedy Jan. 22, 1972."
"Lunar Module footpads protruding from its launch adapter, the Apollo 11 spacecraft was erected atop its Saturn V launch vehicle in the Vehicle Assembly Building today (14 April 1969)..."
Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum
Apollo Boilerplate
The Apollo Boilerplate came into use during the testing phases of the Apollo capsule, and remained active throughout the Apollo space program. The boilerplate was made of steel and simulated the size, weight, shape, and center of gravity of a manned Apollo capsule. The internal section of the boilerplate remained empty, though it was insulated with cork to prevent overheating. The goal of the boilerplate was to test the design of the parachute, drag, and impact tests. Instruments were also set up on the boilerplate to take several different measurements including temperature, heat rates, static loads and aerodynamics. It was also used by U.S. Navy recovery personnel to train for flotation collar installation and retrieval procedures. The use of the Apollo boilerplate ended in 1972 with the conclusion of the Apollo program.
This boilerplate was used for water landing tests and rescue training.
Specifications
Height: 10' 9"
Diameter: 13'
Weight: 10,000 lbs
Operational Life: 1963-1972
Catalog #: Casson_0013
Title: Northrop Ventura Block II Upper Deck Mock Up
Photo Credit: North American Aviation Inc., Space and Information Systems Division, Photographic Department
Year: 12/21/1966
Collection: Norm Casson Collection
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Post-recovery documentation photo of Apollo 17 Command Module 'America'/CM-114.
Hey...where'd the Beta Cloth U.S flag & mission emblem go...that were affixed to the Optical Unit Assembly???
NASA invited members of the media to view the Orion spacecraft which will be used for the Artemis 1 Moon mission, which is currently scheduled for 2021.
The spacecraft has successfully completed four months of testing at NASA’s Plum Brook Station near Sandusky, Ohio, and is scheduled to return to Kennedy Space Center for final assembly.
The NASA Glenn Research Center’s Plum Brook Station’s Space Environments Complex (SEC) is home to the largest space simulation vacuum and electromagnetic interference chamber in the world.
If you want to get the attention of any Smithsonian Museum security guard, just lay down on the floor. This worked for me. Elapsed time about 10 seconds.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
The Skylab 4 Command Module, which served as the crew cabin for going to and from Skylab, was the first U.S. space station. Skylab 4, the third and last of the Skylab missions, was launched on November 16, 1973 with Command and Service Modules CSM-118. The three-person crew, Gerald P. Carr, William R. Pogue, and Edward G. Gibson, spent 84 days on orbit, landing on February 8, 1974. The mission included the observation of the comet Kohoutek, among numerous experiments. The crew completed 1,214 Earth orbits and four extra-vehicular activities totaling 22 hours, 13 minutes.
CSM-118 was transferred from NASA to the Smithsonian in 1975.
"A model of a two-man lunar landing "bug" developed by Martin Company of Baltimore simulated the critical rendezvous and docking portions of a manned mission to the moon. The two-man "bug" featured a round docking ring into which a simulated nose cone of an Apollo spacecraft could be inserted as part of a rendezvous and docking maneuver. The "bug" could move up to about 25 degrees about three axes of motion--roll, pitch, and yaw. The nose cone of the simulated Apollo spacecraft approaching a docking maneuver.
--Martin Company photo."
The above is an extract from "THE APOLLO SPACECRAFT: A CHRONOLOGY - VOLUME II"
My original:
Interesting Martin Co. version of a LEM/CM docking concept.
I'm assuming the conical cage-like fixture is to assist in guiding the two spacecraft together. Possibly taking into account the potential 'imprecision' of controlling the finer translations of a spacecraft in the wild? Possibly, as this photograph was taken several years prior to the successful rendezvous and close quarters station-keeping demonstrated by Gemini 6 & 7.
7" x 9".
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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".
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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
The Skylab 4 Command Module, which served as the crew cabin for going to and from Skylab, was the first U.S. space station. Skylab 4, the third and last of the Skylab missions, was launched on November 16, 1973 with Command and Service Modules CSM-118. The three-person crew, Gerald P. Carr, William R. Pogue, and Edward G. Gibson, spent 84 days on orbit, landing on February 8, 1974. The mission included the observation of the comet Kohoutek, among numerous experiments. The crew completed 1,214 Earth orbits and four extra-vehicular activities totaling 22 hours, 13 minutes.
CSM-118 was transferred from NASA to the Smithsonian in 1975.
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).
www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo7/ht...
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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.
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.
“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.
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