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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
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
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.
This is the side of the Apollo command module you never saw in photos. They always favored the "hatch" side. The guidance equipment looks at the stars through these little windows. The 28x sextant looked through the larger slit on the right and the scanning telescope used the smaller one on the left. Both rotated to see 360°.
PictionID:53812868 - Catalog:14_031240 - Title:GD/Astronautics Details: Space Science; Rendezvous Simulator Date: 12/12/1962 - Filename:14_031240.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
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.
North American Rockwell Apollo Command Module (CM) mock-up.
This full-size mock-up was built to travel around the country in the 1960's with the purpose to educate and promote the Apollo spaceflight program to the public, along with the hundreds of suppliers and subcontractors that would ultimately participate in the building of the Command Module.
Pima Air and Space Museum
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
This capsule was used for Apollo 4 to test the emergency escape system. The parachutes in the background actually flew to the moon aboard Apollo 15. On loan from the Air & Space Museum, this spacecraft is on display at the Cradle of Aviation Museum.
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.
Apollo Command Module #007, not flown, but used for ground and water tests in the late 1960s.
Slide scan from Fuji Velvia.
Edited NASA image of the splash-down of the Command Module of Apollo 16.
Original caption: The Apollo 16 command module, with astronauts John W. Young, Thomas K. Mattingly II and Charles M. Duke Jr. aboard, nears splashdown in the central Pacific Ocean to successfully conclude a lunar landing mission. This overhead picture was taken from a recovery aircraft seconds before the spacecraft hit the water. The splashdown occurred at 290:37:06 ground elapsed time at 1:45:06 a.m. (CST), April 27, 1972, at coordinates of 00:43.2 degrees south latitude and 156:11.4 degrees west longitude, a point approximately 215 miles southeast of Christmas Island.
PictionID:55775407 - Catalog:Project Apollo Details: Project Apollo; Command Module Mock Up Date: 03/28/1961 - Title:Array - Filename:14_037686.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
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.
At the Ames Research Center, 3 NASA personnel, suited in spaceflight restraining gear, prepare to climb aboard the Apollo Spacecraft. This preliminary mockup model was placed on display today. The Apollo Command Module is 13 ft. wide and 12 fl. high, and will be the most complex manned flight device ever designed and built for earth orbit and lunar landing.
NASA photo dated April 6, 1962.
This is a command module trainer. A mock up used in astronaut training.
The Flotation Collar and Flotation Bags are the actual bags used on the Apollo 11 Mission. The bags deployed when the spacecraft touched down in the ocean.
They were designed to deploy and right the aircraft in the event that it landed nose down and started to sink.
The custom made flotation collar was fitted to the spacecraft by navy divers who entered the water from a Military Helicopter to stabilise the craft.