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Boilerplate no. 6, destined for Pad Abort Test no. 1 (PA-1), after being offloaded at Holliman AFB, White Sands, NM, July 1963.
After arrival at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), Boilerplate no. 6 is seen being prepared for Pad Abort Test 1 (PA-1), on 7 November 1963 .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pad_Abort_Test_1
Additional photos at this WONDERFUL site:
georgesrockets.com/GRP/Scale/DATA/JoePhotos/PA-1/PA-1-pic...
The astronauts perform their system checks while in orbit.
Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
by Charles Coombs
Scholastic Books, Inc., 1965
"Apollo 16- CM 113 move to Chamber "S" and mate to Service Module."
I’m certain this photo was taken at the Manned Spacecraft Operations (MSOB) Building, Kennedy Space Center (KSC). However, I can't seem to find a Chamber “S” (at least not anywhere online). Chambers “L”, “M” & R” - yes, “S” - no. Possibly a typo?
Note what appear to be multiple Apollo emblem decals on the hard hat of the gentleman on the right.
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.
America, the Apollo 17 Command module, was flown from 7-19 December 1972. Apollo 17 was the last mission of Project Apollo, and the Apollo 17 spacecraft is the last manned one to have travelled to the moon. This Command module orbited the moon while astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt landed in the Lunar Module. Ron Evans piloted it back to Earth and the crew landed safely. The underside was charred during re-entry.
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/...
The actual Apollo 17 Command Module, dubbed "America", is on display in the Starship Gallery of Space Center Houston.
Apollo 17, the final mission of NASA's Apollo program launched on December 7, 1972 with a crew made up of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt. It was a "J-type mission" which included three days on the lunar surface, extended scientific capability, and the third Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). While Evans remained in lunar orbit in this Command/Service Module (CSM), Cernan and Schmitt spent just over three days on the moon in the Taurus–Littrow valley and completed three moonwalks, taking lunar samples and deploying scientific instruments. All three astronauts returned safely to Earth in this capsule, ending an era in space history.
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:53812904 - Catalog:14_031243 - Title:GD/Astronautics Details: Guest in Life Science Building with Centaur Model Date: 03/18/1963 - Filename:14_031243.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 Command Module #007, not flown, but used for ground and water tests in the late 1960s. This command module originally was identical to the one in which the Apollo 1 astronauts died in a fire during a plugs-out test. This one was later upgraded to the Block 2 specs, including this new unified hatch.
“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.
Boilerplate no. 6, destined for Pad Abort Test no. 1 (PA-1), is offloaded upon arrival at Holliman AFB, White Sands, NM, July 1963.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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