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Catalog #: Casson_0083
Title: Apollo Testing
Photo Credit: North American Aviation Inc., Space and Information Systems Division, Photographic Department
Year: 6/17/1965
Collection: Norm Casson Collection
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
On display at Kennedy Space Center
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"Recovery teams proceed immediately to pick up the Apollo crewmen."
Note the radar dish in the background, referenced in the preceding illustration (below). Although the recovery aircraft has been upgraded to the venerable Boeing CH-47 Chinook, the bone-jarring terrestrial landing was obviously still under consideration as of this illustration. Sorta blasphemous that the CH-47 bears a USAF roundel - it is any Army bird...artistic license I suppose. ;-)
Look at the astronaut-to-capsule scale. That thing is HUGE...like Orion-sized. Even the hatch is the size of a door. Hence the CH-47 Chinook?
Just sayin’:
Columbia's hatch is displayed separately, in the Apollo to the Moon gallery. airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/hatch-crew-apollo-11
Gorgeous artist’s concept of an early LEM/CSM design (ca. 1962), depicting the LEM shortly after undocking from the CSM, prior to PDI. Superior artwork, the shading, dramatic lunar terrain and overall attention to detail is amazing.
I don't see any signature(s); however, based on the others in this 'series', it certainly looks to be the meticulous work of Ludwik Źiemba, et al.
8.5" x 11".
Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, with his ride..."Spacecraft 107, alias Apollo 11, alias ‘Columbia.’ The Best Ship to Come Down the Line. God Bless Her."
Are those low-top canvas Converse All Stars he's wearing? Stylin’ if so!
airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/apollo-11-writings-wall
AWESOME...yet again.
Also:
Michael Collins sits in the open hatch of the Apollo 11 Command Module after its return to the MSC's Lunar Receiving Laboratory for detailed examination.
www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a11/ap11-S69-4549...
Spacecraft: Apollo 9 Command Module, "Gumdrop." Original, flown March 1969 on loan- -Image from the SDASM Curatorial Collection.Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Hangar 135, Ellington Air Force Base, sometime during 1963.
Quite the assortment of no longer needed items, ingloriously stored in the corner. From left to right, I think they’re; the Big Joe (Big Joe 1) capsule (farthest back), a wrapped unidentified Mercury capsule (possibly from a Little Joe test flight?), BP-25 (maybe BP-1?), maybe BP-25’s (BP-1’s?) forward heat shield, an unidentified Mercury parachute/drop-test boilerplate capsule, and last, but not least, the exotic, NAA-manufactured, ‘JFK co-star’ concept lunar lander.
The large machine along the wall, to the left of the lunar lander is a Cincinnati mechanical press brake, a machine used for bending sheet metal & metal plates. So, fabrication of aircraft/aerospace parts was performed here? As part of making repairs? Modifications? Interesting.
In front of the covered Mercury capsule is a radial drilling machine/radial drill press, used for drilling, boring, reaming, and thread cutting, particularly on large or heavy workpieces that are difficult to move.
The above has caused me to rethink what transpires in hangars. Ignorantly & passingly, I’d vaguely considered maintenance & repairs, but not to a degree that requires press brakes & radial drill presses. Those would seem to be associated with construction. Then again, who’d have considered them housing above-ground pools with boilerplate capsules in them???
Image at/from:
share.google/161JXGTuROngSelLK
Credit: DVIDS website
A similar drop-test Mercury capsule:
airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/boilerplate-capsule...
Credit: NASM website
Apollo 13 Command Module ‘Odyssey’ returns home on three good parachutes.
And/or:
The Apollo 13 spacecraft heads toward a splashdown in the South Pacific Ocean. The Apollo 13 Command Module splashed down in the South Pacific at 12:07:44 p.m., April 17, 1970. Note the capsule and its parachutes just visible against a gap in the dark clouds.
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo13/html/...
www.universetoday.com/119921/13-more-things-that-saved-ap...
Credit: UNIVERSE TODAY website
“Command Service Module for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Apollo 11 mission is being moved from the workstand for mating to the Spacecraft Launch Adapter at the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building.”
"Saturn 5 Display G. L. Higdon, of P&UE (left) George C. Rogers (Brown Eng.) (right)”
3/27/64"
All of those wonderful models!!!
“APOLLO RECOVERY—Forward compartment of Apollo spacecraft command module shows main parachutes, drogue chutes and their containers, reaction control system engines (covered and ready for flight), and pilot mortar. Assembled and checked out at North American’s Space Division clean room, the spacecraft is shipped to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for mating with the Saturn V launch vehicle.”
Based primarily on the NAA photo numbering when compared to other photos, and most features matching up quite well with those in the following photos, I think it's CM-017:
A superlative site btw:
www.americanspacecraft.com/pages/apollo/A-4.html
Credit: A Field Guide to American Spacecraft website
roundupreads.jsc.nasa.gov/images/imagefull-3139.png
Another good view:
roundupreads.jsc.nasa.gov/images/imagefull-3137.png
Above credit JSC 'Roundup Reads', at:
roundupreads.jsc.nasa.gov/pages.ashx/747/Rocketing
Also:
airandspace.si.edu/webimages/collections/full/A1970025400...
airandspace.si.edu/sites/default/files/images/collection-...
Credit: NASM website
Museum of Flight, Seattle, Sept. 2019. What a thrill to be in the presence of this historic spacecraft! I set the camera, photo by a kind fellow attendee.
Great nighttime view of Apollo/Saturn-201 (AS-201), the first Saturn IB, prior to its 26 February 1966 launch from Launch Complex 34 (LC-34).
Excellent AS-201 reading:
www.drewexmachina.com/2016/02/26/the-first-flight-of-the-...
Credit: Drew Ex Machina website/Andrew LePage
Also:
www.facebook.com/groups/111270505971579/permalink/1760992...
Catalog #: Casson_0022
Title: Apollo Capsule - Escape test
Collection: Norm Casson Collection
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Official NASA description:
Artist's concept Apollo 15 Command/Service Modules astronauts performing EVA
Description:
An artist's concept of the Apollo 15 Command/Service Modules, showing two crewmen performing a new Apollo extravehicular activity. The figure at left represents Astronaut Alfred M. Worden, Command Module (CM) pilot, connected by an umbilical tether to the CM. At right, a figure representing Astronaut James B. Irwin, Lunar Module pilot, stands at the open CM hatch. Worden is working with the panoramic camera in the Scientific Instrument Module (SIM). Behind Irwin is the 16mm data acquisition camera.
Credit: Internet Archive website
Although not exclusive to any single artist, based on the 'brush-stroke heavy' background, I'm sorta considering this to possibly have been by the hand of Donald W. Bester.
"One astronaut will always be fully suited in space attire for emergency."
Above per the numbered black & white version, linked to below.
One of many gorgeous images in this 1963-series of NAA/NASA works by Gary Meyer.
I've never seen this in color prior to this. In wonderful condition, with ample gloss.
Note the identical rotational(?) hand controllers…on what appears to be the LMP’s couch. Huh? But hey, it’s only 1963, so all is forgiven. 😉 And it’s Gary Meyer!
Catalog #: Casson_0014
Title: Apollo Lunar Capsule
Photo Credit: North American Aviation Inc., Space and Information Systems Division, Photographic Department
Year: 8/23/1966
Collection: Norm Casson Collection
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Free download under CC Attribution ( CC BY 4.0) Please credit the artist and rawpixel.com.
Higher resolutions with no attribution required can be downloaded: www.rawpixel.com/category/public_domain
“APOLLO 11 PACIFIC RECOVERY AREA—A rescue helicopter hovers above the Apollo 11 spacecraft seconds after it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 12:50 p.m. EDT July 24, 1969. The spacecraft turned apex down after impact, as shown here, but inflatable bags repositioned the spacecraft shortly after this view was taken. Splashdown and recovery took place 900 miles southwest of Hawaii eight days after astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., performed man’s first lunar exploration mission.”
Note the submerging parachute just below the surface, to the left of the capsule, along with the mostly radial scorch marks on the heat shield.
An absolutely wonderful read - by a shipmate onboard no. 53 - not bad for a Navy bubba: 😉👍
www.navyhistory.org/2012/02/navy-photographer-apollo-11-r...
Credit: Navy Historical Foundation website
youtu.be/y3KEhWTnWvE
Credit: YouTube/Ahmad F Elyan
Enough fond memories of July 1969. Back to today’s reality...
So, here we are, hoping that between SpaceX and Boeing, along with the SLS, and/or whatever combination there of, NASA, et al can/will safely get our asses back in space...eventually. Just space, let alone the moon. By that time, if/when we do actually return that is, authorization to orbit & land may have to be granted by the Taikonauts that are already there, along with the payment of some sort of fees. Or tariff possibly? Idk, I’m a socio-economic idiot. Whatever it may be, hopefully it'll be less than the current Russian ISS taxi service.
Mars?...my long beleaguered Browns will have been to a Super Bowl or two or four before an American sets foot on the red planet. Depressing...to a degree. The Lombardi Trophies at least will be nice. ;-)
Might as well start getting desensitized to this now:
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/01/07/opinions/china-moon-landing-ou...
Credit: CNN
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Credit: JALOPNIK.com website
When there is no real will, resolve or imperative, this is what happens. I know it’s only a couple of articles; however:
spacenews.com/is-the-gateway-the-right-way-to-the-moon/
Credit: SPACENEWS website
forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=pn599mjc1hg...
Credit: NASA Spaceflight.com website
Back to the past, and an opportunity to promote this again. It's amazing, and highly entertaining (to me at least):
3d.si.edu/apollo11cm/boxes/play-cm-2016-09-26/cm-exterior...
Credit: Smithsonian Institution/AUTODESK
Apollo Program Display
San Diego Air and Space Museum
San Diego, California, USA
One of the original 3-man command modules from the United States historic human space flight project that led to a successful landing of the first humans on the Moon in 1969, culminating in Apollo 11's historic mission .
North American Aviation artist's concept of the Apollo 4 (AS-501) flight profile/mission sequence of events.
Description/caption associated with this exact image (in color) in the NAA promotional brochure “This is the first of the big shots: NASA’s Apollo 4.”
“Here - at a glance - is the plan for Apollo 4. Lift-off at Kennedy Space Center...earth orbit and translunar injection...apogee at 11,400 miles...the plummet back to earth and re-entry at almost 25,000 mph...finally, splashdown in the Pacific. (This photograph of the mission was made on a single negative with 89 exposures using a 1/100th-scale model of the Apollo/Saturn V vehicle.)
The Apollo 11 Command Module "Columbia" is photographed being lowered to a transport dolly aboard the U.S.S. Hornet, prime recovery ship for the historic lunar landing mission. The flotation ring, attached by Navy divers immediately after splashdown, has been removed from the capsule.
Taken from deck level, at nearly the same time:
history.nasa.gov/afj/ap11fj/nasm/AS11-1052C-S69-21793cut.jpg
Credit: Apollo 11 Flight Journal website
Apollo 14 was the third manned mission to land on the Moon in 1971. This is the command module called Kitty Hawk that returned to Earth.
The Apollo 11 Command/Service Module (CSM) are being mated to the Saturn V Lunar Module Adapter on April 11, 1969.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 69P-0247
Date: April 11, 1969
"The Apollo 9 Command Module "Gumdrop", with astronauts James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott, and Russell L. Schweickart aboard, splashes down in the Atlantic recovery area to conclude a successful ten-day, Earth orbital mission. Splashdown occurred at 12:00:53 p.m. (EST), March 13, 1969, only 4.5 nautical miles from the prime recovery ship, U.S.S. Guadalcanal."
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_9_Splashdown_-_GPN...
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
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.
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.
“A 9.5-inch concentric device with three circular data wheels on heavy paper. The user may move the wheels to cross reference mission events and times in both mission elapsed and earth days of the week. The reverse side has additional flight events and a glossary. Apollo equipment made by this contractor is also illustrated.”
Above per the Live Auctioneers website.
Interesting reading:
www.raytheon.com/news/feature/moon-anniversary
Credit: Raytheon website
President John F. Kennedy climbs the stairs to view a mock-up of an Apollo command module, during a tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas. Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth, follows behind President Kennedy; Director of Manned Space Flight, D. Brainerd Holmes, stands at bottom of stairs. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.
And at:
www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-ST-387-18...
I highly recommend exploring the rest of the impressive collection of photos at the above site.
Priceless:
archive.org/details/1962-09-13_Kennedy_Tour
Interesting reading:
www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/jfk-and-the-moon-180947824/
Credit: Smithsonian Air & Space website
“The Apollo 15 spacecraft splashes down in the Pacific Ocean at the completion of the Nation’s fourth manned lunar landing mission. Splashdown was recorded at 4:46 p.m. EDT, August 7, 1971, 333 miles north of Hawaii.”
Beautiful conceptual Apollo Program artwork by North American Aviation (NAA) illustrator Gary Meyer. Mr. Meyer possibly was the illustrator for this 1963 series/family of Apollo concept illustrations. Hard to confirm, as this and the other NAA/Apollo illustrations have no signature visible.
Mr. Meyer's credentials, achievements and honors are very impressive indeed!!!:
garymeyerillustration.net/BIOGRAPHY.html
Wow!!!:
garymeyerillustration.net/ILLUSTRATIONS/Pages/early_work....
In this instance, specifically:
garymeyerillustration.net/ILLUSTRATIONS/Pages/early_work....
Obviously a later version, with the Command Module strakes removed, minor cosmetic tweaks and the addition of first stage (S-IC) ullage motors firing.
Who knew?!
A rare interior view of an unidentified Apollo Command Module mockup, taken April 17, 1963 at North American Aviation’s (NAA) Space and Information Systems Division, Downey, CA. Too many cool, obscure, and to me, unidentifiable/unknown things/items going on here to bring attention to…just enjoy.
I am, however, compelled to point out the reel-to-reel tape drive. It’s obviously incorporated into the mockup, and not GSE. I’d never really considered this before; was such actually considered/required/used aboard the spacecraft? Apparently ‘yes’…at least as of 1963? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’ll be damned…not GSE, but DSE (Data Storage Equipment):
www.spaceaholic.com/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_i...
Credit: Scott Schneeweis/”Spaceaholic” website
And:
www.ninfinger.org/models/vault/spaceflight.pdf
Credit: Sven Knudson/the wonderful Ninfinger website
With excellent explanation of the DSE:
www.ibiblio.org/apollo/ApolloProjectOnline/Documents/SMA2...
Credit: "The Virtual AGC Project:: Gemini — Apollo — Shuttle" website
Who knew???
Did YOU???
I did NOT!!!
Really makes one appreciate the incredible feat that was Apollo.
8.5” x ~11”, with three-ring binder punch holes, with an extremely fine satin finish.
Catalog #: Casson_0027
Title: Apollo Capsule
Photo Credit: North American Aviation Inc., Space and Information Systems Division, Photographic Department
Year: 4/27/1966
Collection: Norm Casson Collection
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
“APOLLO 8 SHIPS OUT--Spacecraft command module for Apollo 8 lunar orbit launch Dec. 21 is lowered onto dolly at North American Rockwell’s Space Division, Downey, Calif., for shipment to Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Spacecraft was accepted by NASA following lengthy series of tests. Apollo 8 spacecraft is programmed for approximate 6 day lunar orbit flight. Spacecraft command and service modules are produced for NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Tex.”
Arrogantly, absurdly & insultingly priced, in addition to the description being jacked up...capped off by the ever popular but ignorant use of the term “blast off”:
www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/view-of-the-apol...
"Credit": Getty Images
Apollo 15 - National Museum of the USAF-United States Air Force located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
"The Apollo 15 Command Module (CM), with astronauts David R. Scott, commander; Alfred M. Worden, command module pilot; and James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, aboard safely touches down in the mid-Pacific Ocean to conclude a highly successful lunar landing mission. Although causing no harm to the crewmen, one of the three main parachutes failed to function properly. The splashdown occurred at 3:45:53 p.m. (CDT), Aug. 7, 1971, some 330 miles north of Honolulu, Hawaii. The three astronauts were picked up by helicopter and flown to the prime recovery ship, USS Okinawa, which was only 6 1/2 miles away."
Already collapsed, the failed parachute is to the rear.
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo15/html/...
Interior view of the 2TV-1 Command Module, ca. 1968. The Apollo 2TV-1 "mission" involved the crew of Joe Kerwin, Vance Brand, and Joe Engle staying in the CSM test spacecraft (2TV-1) for 177 hours while the spacecraft was in a large vacuum chamber in Houston. A similar test (LTA-8) was run on the LM, with James Irwin and John Bull. The purpose of the tests was to verify the spacecraft were capable of operating in the vacuum of space, under the temperatures and lighting conditions that would be experienced during an Apollo space flight. Note that the center couch has been removed in order to provide some freedom of movement not otherwise possible under earth's onerous gravity.
Credit: collectSPACE website, member "tr", at:
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/000742.html
Also:
ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19740012430...
Excellent summation of the purpose and pertinent specifics of the 2TV-1 "spacecraft/mission":
www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/roundups/issues/68-06-21.pdf
And multiple excellent photos here:
archive.org/search.php?query=2TV-1
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.
President John F. Kennedy (left) views a mock-up [boilerplate] of an Apollo Command Module, during a tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth, stands left of President Kennedy. Also pictured: Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Representative Albert Thomas (Texas); chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence of Great Britain, Sir Solly Zuckerman; White House Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius and Rufus Youngblood. The President visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.
Credit: Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
The decal/sign/placard on the boilerplate capsule reads:
"APOLLO COMMAND MODULE
FULL SIZE MOCKUP FOR
FLOTATION STABILITY TESTS"
See also:
archive.org/details/Aviation_Week_1962-09-24/page/n15/mod...
Credit: Internet Archive website
In fact, the montage of photos President Kennedy is being shown appears to document such flotation stability and towing tests of (most likely) this boilerplate having already been conducted. I wonder which one it is...BP-2, 25, or even 29 maybe?
www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-ST-387-19...
archive1.jfklibrary.org/JFKWHP/1962/Month%2009/Day%2012/J...
Priceless:
archive.org/details/1962-09-13_Kennedy_Tour
Interesting reading:
www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/jfk-and-the-moon-180947824/
Credit: Smithsonian Air & Space website
Command Module (CM-017), Service Module (SM-020), Lunar Module Test Article (LTA-10R) and Spacecraft/Lunar Module Adapter (SLA-8) possibly having completed final testing and checkout at the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building (MSOB), is prepared for transport to the Vehicle Assembly Building for stacking/mating
www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-4205/images/c233a.jpg
atop the Saturn V/Apollo 4 (AS-501) launch vehicle. The spacecraft is immediately to the right of the integrated test stand, in which the CSM was mated with the SLA. The upwardly open (with the angled lights) work platforms are partially visible. For context, please see Comment section photos of other Apollo spacecraft either while in it or near it while in the MSOB, or for that matter, in the immediate vicinity of the MSOB itself. Additionally, a subsequent photo of the vehicle stack exiting MSOB, it’s doors open:
www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-apollo-saturn-5...
Magnanimously available through Getty Images.
A subsequent photo shortly before exiting the MSOB:
images-assets.nasa.gov/image/KSC-67P-0259/KSC-67P-0259~or...
Excellent information regarding the flight at:
history.nasa.gov/SP-4009/v4p2f.htm
And: