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“APOLLO TRAINER—The Apollo Mission Simulator crew station, including the optical system which will supply the "out of the window" views, located in Building 5. The AMS is a primary training system which will prepare Apollo astronauts for flights. Standing nearly 30 ft. high and weighing approximately 40 tons, the simulator is designed to familiarize Apollo crews with equipment, crew tasks, mission procedures and emergency flight situations. The trainer is expected to be operational by May 1, 1966.”
A neat photo, despite being 'defaced' by whatever news outlet long ago.
The cover of the booklet for one of my old TI99/4A games. It was corny, and dumb, but it was actually fun, at the time. I hope this doesn't ever come to pass, what with this being the 21st century now, and all - avoid Old West ghost towns, tumbleweeds and saguaro cacti! :)
The CM, named Charlie Brown, is on display at the Science Museum in London.
Apollo 10 was crewed by Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young, and Eugene A. Cernan. The mission went to the moon and did much that Apollo 11 would go on to do...except land.
"We is Go and we is down among' em, Charlie!" -Gene Cernan.
FYI: Astronauts Cernan and Young did make it back to the moon. Cernan walked on the moon during Apollo 17 as Young did during Apollo 16. Astronaut Stafford did not return to the moon, but he did fly again on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975.
Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum
Unmanned Apollo test flights were identified by double zeros before their numeric designations. The objectives of the test flights were to evaluate the spacecraft's communication and electronic subsystems, heat shield, and mission support facilities. On February 26, 1966 a Saturn 1B launch vehicle carrying Apollo CSM-009 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Following a seven minute burn, the second stage instrument unit separated from the spacecraft. The Command Module reached a maximum altitude of 310 miles over the Atlantic Ocean before beginning descent.
It is on loan courtesy of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, and restoration was completed courtesy of Duncan Aviation and Dale Jensen of Lincoln, Nebraska.
An excellent view of the Apollo 17 Command and Service Modules (CSM) photographed from the Lunar Module (LM) "Challenger" during rendezvous and docking maneuvers in lunar orbit. The LM ascent stage, with astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and Harrison H. Schmitt aboard, had just returned from the Taurus-Littrow landing site on the lunar surface. Astronaut Ronald E. Evans remained with the CSM in lunar orbit. Note the exposed Scientific Instrument Module (SIM) Bay in Sector 1 of the Service Module (SM). Three experiments are carried in the SIM bay: S-209 lunar sounder, S-171 infrared scanning spectrometer, and the S-169 far-ultraviolet spectrometer. Also mounted in the SIM bay are the panoramic camera, mapping camera and laser altimeter used in service module photographic tasks. A portion of the LM is on the right.
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo17/html/...
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.
The actual Gemini spacecraft, flown by Gordon Cooper and Charles "Pete" Conrad for the Gemini V mission is on display in the Starship Gallery of Space Center Houston. The third manned Gemini flight, and the eleventh manned American spaceflight the Gemini V mission launched from Cape Kennedy on August 21, 1965 and making 120 orbits around the earth over a record duration of 7 days, 22 hours, 55 minutes and fourteen seconds.
Space Center Houston is the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center and a Smithsonian Affiliate Museum owned and operated by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Education Foundation. The center opened in 1992 and hosts more than 1 million visitors annually in its 250,000-square-foot educational complex with over 400 space artifacts, permanent and traveling exhibits, attractions, live shows and theaters dedicated to preserving the history of America's human spaceflight program.
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center, where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted. Construction of the center, designed by Charles Luckman, began in 1962 and the 1,620-acre facility officially opened for business in September 1963. The center is home to NASA's astronaut corps, and is responsible for training astronauts from both the U.S. and its international partners. It has become popularly known for its flight control function, identified as "Mission Control" during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo–Soyuz, and Space Shuttle program flights. It is also the site of the former Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where the first astronauts returning from the Moon were quarantined, and where the majority of lunar samples are stored.
PictionID:55778502 - Catalog:GD/Astronautics Testing Details: Mercury Abort Unit; Vibration Lab-Shaker Test Set Up Date: 02/03/1960 - Title:Array - Filename:14_037915.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
The Apollo Spacecraft Command Module sitting atop of the Saturn V rocket, at the Apollo-Saturn V Museum at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The small rocket, attached to the top of the Command Module, is the Launch Escape System that would be used to pull the Command Module (which contained the crew cabin) away from the launch vehicle in an abort situation.
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.
PictionID:53763927 - Catalog:14_032115 - Title:Apollo Program Details: Apollo Air Locks. With Workers Date: 08/24/1961 - Filename:14_032115.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
PictionID:54245269 - Catalog:14_033615 - Title:GD/Astronautics Details: Space Transport-Present Characteristics of Descent Date: 07/11/1969 - Filename:14_033615.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
Astronaut Thomas K. (Ken) Mattingly II, command module pilot of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, floats in space outside the spacecraft during his trans-Earth extravehicular activity (EVA), as seen in this reproduction taken from a color television transmission made by a color TV camera mounted on the Command Module (CM) hatch. Mattingly used hand-holds and a foot restraint to hold himself in position, and he was secured to the spacecraft by an umbilical tether line. During his EVA, Mattingly made an inspection of the Service Module's (SM) Scientific Instrument Module (SIM) bay, and retrieved film cassettes from the Panoramic Camera and the Mapping Camera. The trans-Earth EVA occurred at ground elapsed time of 242:55, and 2:49 p.m. (CST), Tuesday, April 25, 1972.
Astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly II, command module pilot, performs an extravehicular activity (EVA) during the Apollo 16 trans-Earth coast. Mattingly is assisted by astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot. Mattingly inspected the SIM Bay or Service Module (SM), and retrieved film from the Mapping and Panoramic Cameras. Mattingly is wearing the helmet of astronaut John W. Young, commander. The helmet's lunar EVA visor assembly helped protect Mattingly's eyes from the bright sun. This view is a frame from motion picture film exposed by a 16mm Maurer camera.
Also at:
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo16/html/...
The Command Module (CM) was the control center for the Apollo spacecraft and provided the living and workspace for the three-man crew for the entire Lunar flight, except when two of the crew were in the Lunar Module. The crew compartment is made of stainless steel, and the heat shield on the rear is made of a heat dissipating material that burned away during re-entry. The parachutes seen here were flown to the Moon and back on Apollo 15. On January 20, 1966, Apollo Test 004 was launched with this CM on a Little Joe II rocket. For this test, the rocket started to tumble at an altitude of 24 miles, as planned, and the Escape system sensed trouble and fired its abort rocket, carry the CM away from danger. The CM was recovered normally by parachute ending in a hard landing in the desert. The test proved that the CM launch escape and land impact systems could protect the astronauts in an emergency.
Specifications:
Height: 10' 7"
Diameter: 12' 10"
Weight: 12, 235 lbs
Re-entry speed: 25,000 mph
Cradle of Aviation Museum Long Island NY.
Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum
Apollo Command Module Boilerplate
A boilerplate is a simplified metal model created to test specific aspects of the real spacecraft, such as water landings, launch abort escape rockets, or recovery systems. It duplicates the size, weight, shape, and center of gravity of the actual vehicle.
This particular boilerplate is BP-1101A. NASA used it for flotation tests in the Gulf of Mexico in July, 1965. After some modifications, NASA used it for additional ocean testing in 1966 and 1967.
On Ioan from the National Air and Space Museum.
Preflight photo: Apollo 6 Command Module 020 interior, Main Display Console (right side).
And, as always, excellent reading/info at:
www.drewexmachina.com/2018/04/04/apollo-6-the-saturn-v-th...
Credit: Drew Ex Machina website/Andrew LePage
Excellent in-flight footage...of the same general area (from a different perspective):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvCMJLjqD8o
Credit: Hidden Below
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.
This showed up at breakfast today. @NASA #Apollo command module wind tunnel test asset tested in 1967.
Test report: www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/680396.pdf
I recently acquired this...being a space geek growing up watching EVERY moon mission on TV, this was my favorite game. It came from Avon. It was a bottle of shampoo. But when the shampoo was gone, the cap fit into the hole. When you slammed the command module on the table, the LM popped out and landed with a number up. that was the amount of spaces you moved. I found this online lookin only for the capsule and LM, but was lucky to find one with the box and game matt. Only thing missing is the tokens.
Pre-landing photo of the CSM from the LM and, in the background on the lunar surface, hilly terrain near the northwest rim of Valier (174.5 E / 6.8 N).
Also:
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo16/html/...
PictionID:53763951 - Catalog:14_032117 - Title:Apollo Program Details: Apollo Command Module Mock Up Date: 09/08/1961 - Filename:14_032117.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
PictionID:53763963 - Catalog:14_032118 - Title:Apollo Program Details: Apollo Command Module Mock Up Date: 09/08/1961 - Filename:14_032118.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
Apollo 16 was the fifth and penultimate msiion to land on the moon. A Saturn V rocket with is capsule on the top launched on 16th April 1972 and the astronauts returned in it 11 days later with 208 lbs of moon rock. This amazing piece of history is on display at the USSRC in Huntsville, Alabama.
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.
pictionid72428408 - catalogarray - title-schirra collection image-schirra left and neil armstrong at kennedy space ctr 4497 - filenameschirra000094.tif-Item from the Wally Schirra Collection on loan from the Schirra Estate. ----Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
The Command Module (CM) was the control center for the Apollo spacecraft and provided the living and workspace for the three-man crew for the entire Lunar flight, except when two of the crew were in the Lunar Module. The crew compartment is made of stainless steel, and the heat shield on the rear is made of a heat dissipating material that burned away during re-entry. The parachutes seen here were flown to the Moon and back on Apollo 15. On January 20, 1966, Apollo Test 004 was launched with this CM on a Little Joe II rocket. For this test, the rocket started to tumble at an altitude of 24 miles, as planned, and the Escape system sensed trouble and fired its abort rocket, carry the CM away from danger. The CM was recovered normally by parachute ending in a hard landing in the desert. The test proved that the CM launch escape and land impact systems could protect the astronauts in an emergency.
Specifications:
Height: 10' 7"
Diameter: 12' 10"
Weight: 12, 235 lbs
Re-entry speed: 25,000 mph
Cradle of Aviation Museum Long Island NY.