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Original Appolo 9 command module ( complete with traces of after burn caused by re-entry ) Air and Space Museum - Balboa Park
"Saturn 5 Display G. L. Higdon, of P&UE (left) George C. Rogers (Brown Eng.) (right)”
3/27/64"
All of those wonderful models!!!
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
Mercury 7 Astronauts Scott Carpenter, John Glenn and Wally Schirra pose with an early Apollo Command Module mockup during a tour and inspection of North American Aviation's Space and Information Systems Division, Downey, CA.
To me, this looks to be Command Module mockup no. 18. See my linked photos as possible/probable confirmation.
A press release version of this photo is dated 20 March 1963.
Columbia's hatch is displayed separately, in the Apollo to the Moon gallery. airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/hatch-crew-apollo-11
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.”
Catalog #: Casson_0022
Title: Apollo Capsule - Escape test
Collection: Norm Casson Collection
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
“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...
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.
Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA.
The command module (CM) is the heart of the Apollo launch system. Just barely large enough to accommodate the three astronauts, it is equipped with all the life support systems and provisions for the round trip to the moon.
Nikon F5, 16-35mm VR f/4 lens at 35mm, 1/4 sec at f/4. Fujichrome Provia 400X color reversal film developed at EI 400 in an Arista Rapid E-6 kit at 105F.
“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
i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--yI7eKaiA--/c...
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
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
The command module from Apollo 14, named "Kitty Hawk" by her crew, on display in the Kennedy Space Center visitors' center. Apollo 14 flew to the moon in February 1971 with astronauts Shepard and Mitchell descending to the surface while pilot Roosa remained in the Command and Service Module.
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.)
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 Spacecraft Leaving Hangar AF”
A great photograph of the BP-13/“CSM” stack departing Hangar AF to be mated with the SA-6/AS-101 launch vehicle at LC-37B.
Note the flush-mounted tubular appendage that spans the capsule/service module interface, immediately to the left of the scimitar antenna on the boilerplate.
There used to be an informative historical write-up of Hangar AF here:
afspacemuseum.org/facilities/industrial-area/
No longer. The dolts don’t have ANYTHING regarding it now. Reminiscent of NASA’s online historical buffoonery. And the following cursory historical information regarding it is lame.
However, there’s information aplenty regarding its use WRT SRB refurbishment, which I'm sorry, I don’t give a rat’s ass about. Ugh…more foundational history down the drain…yet AGAIN.
“C. PHYSICAL HISTORY
1. Date(s) of construction:
The Hangar AF Complex was built in three phases from the 1960s through the 1990s. The first phase of construction included construction of Hangar AF and the High Pressure Gas Facility in 1962. The facility was designed by Bail, Horton & Associates of Fort Myers, Florida, and used for staff headquarters and administrative support offices of the Saturn IB and Saturn V rockets during the Apollo Program. The hangar site is located on Hangar Road in the CCAFS Industrial Area. This area includes almost two dozen hangars and other buildings, only four of which were used by NASA, with the rest belonging to the Air Force. Another of these NASA buildings is Hangar S, which is adjacent to Hangar AF. Hangar AF was designed to house 66,170 square feet of workspace with a reinforced concrete foundation and a concrete block and aluminum sheeting exterior.”
“3. Builder/Contractor/Supplier:
Hangar AF and the High Pressure Gas Building were built in 1962 by Douglass Aircraft Co., Boeing Aircraft Co., and Bendix Corporation, Inc. The 1977 site modifications were completed by Holloway Construction for $3,227,300.32 The contractors involved in the subsequent construction projects at Hangar AF are not known.
4. Original Plans and Construction:
Hangar AF and the High Pressure Gas Building were originally built in 1962 for NASA’s Apollo Program. According to technical reports, they were used for Saturn IB and Saturn V Staff Headquarters and Administrative Support Offices. The buildings’ site was a previously undeveloped corner of the CCAFS’s Industrial Area immediately southwest of Hangar S. The site was the Industrial Area’s closest access point to the Banana River, providing a place for ships to deliver Saturn rocket components. The site’s configuration included Hangar AF (called “Special Assembly Building AF” on the original drawings) and the High Pressure Gas Building, as well as a parking area, access roads, and a wood Sentry House that was later demolished.”
All above at/from:
tdglobal.ksc.nasa.gov/servlet/sm.web.Fetch/HAERhangAF.pdf...
Also:
“S-IB Stage Operations
The S-IB stage is transported by barge from Marshall Space Flight Center's Michoud plant to the Hangar AF at Kennedy Space Center. After a receiving inspection and pre-erection preparation, the stage is transported to the launch complex and erected on the launch pedestal where the following operations are performed:
1. Installation of Fins
2. Power-on Checks
3. Digital Data Acquisition Checks
4. Radio Frequency and Telemetry Checks
5. Electrical Networks Checks
6. Mechanical Systems Checks
7. RP-1 and Liquid Oxygen Loading Tests”
Above at/from:
commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2718&con...
Credit: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University website
richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/5840
Credit: "RICHES" website
Credit: Wikipedia
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
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 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.”
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.
“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
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
“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
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.
In this cropped, barely edited, excellent photograph taken by Flickr user Steve Furman, serial/identification number 1 is clearly seen to be exactly the one in my photo. Number 2 is not as discernible, other than its orientation & relative placement.
To further (eventually) plunge down the rabbit hole, the red arrows point to innocuous looking components/structures that are actually fascinating & key to distinguishing between Block I and Block II CMs. However, that’ll require posting additional imagery - at a later date.
I’ve also linked to Mr. Furman’s original photograph below, confirmed to be CM-103/Apollo 8.
I also refer to this as "CM-103 confirmation photograph no. 1".
As he egresses Command Module 'America', USN Captain Eugene Cernan, Commander, Apollo 17, is welcomed back to Earth by USN Lieutenant Jonathan Smart, Officer In Charge, UDT 11 Recovery Team, 19 December 1972.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
AWESOME
"We leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind."
YET, here we are, FORTY FIVE years later, pretty much with our thumbs up our...along with seemingly ever-dwindling peace and/or hope.
NOT so awesome.
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
"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/...
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?!
Apollo 15 - National Museum of the USAF-United States Air Force located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
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
As an aside, this "63-Apollo" series depicting critical points during a nominal Apollo lunar mission culminate in an Earth Landing System (ELS) "touchdown", NOT a splashdown.
This is the cover of a 1967 program booklet for the annual Fersommling (gathering) of Grundsow Lodge Nummer Ains on da Lechaw (Groundhog Lodge Number One on the Lehigh), which is one of a number of Groundhog Lodges that -- beginning in the 1930s -- meet on or about Groundhog Day (February 2) each year to promote the Pennsylvania Dutch Language.
Parodies of current events frequently appear as illustrations on the covers of the Fersommling booklets, and this one is no exception. With the Space Race in full swing during the 1960s, it's not surprising to see a groundhog astronaut traveling in a command module spacecraft labeled Wedder Schiff, USA (Pennsylvania Dutch for Weather Ship, USA). Two rockets -- Winder Wedder and Summer Wedder (Summer Weather and Winter Weather) -- are nearby. A satellite, the Earth, and the Sun complete the picture.
For more space-based groundhogs, see Groundhog on the Moon, 1958 and Groundhog Moon Landing, 1970.
Text on the cover of the program booklet:
"Grundsow Lodge Nummer Ains on da Lechaw. Die Ain-un-Dreizicht Yairlich Fersommling uns Fesht 1967, der 2d Harnung om halver siva, Northampton Community Center."
"Wedder Schiff, USA. Winder Wedder. Summer Wedder."
Translation from the Pennsylvania Dutch:
"Groundhog Lodge Number One on the Lehigh. The Thirty-first Annual Gathering and Feast 1967. February 2 at 7:30, Northampton Community Center."
"Weather Ship, USA. Winter Weather. Summer Weather."
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:
“NASA APOLLO 11 EXHIBIT VAN AT CARSON CITY, NEVADA -- The mobile exhibit van is scheduled for a tour of the nation’s 50 state capitals during 1970 and early 1971. The van will carry the Apollo 11 capsule, the spacecraft that carried the first men from Earth to set foot on the Moon. One of the principal features of the exhibit will be a Moon rock collected on the lunar surface by Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin. The big touring display unit measures 40 feet long and 14 feet wide. During its stay in each state capital, the van opens out to accommodate a walk-through ramp in each side, permitting thousands of visitors to see its exhibits daily. The Heavy Specialized Carriers Conference, affiliated with the American Trucking Associations, Inc., will provide the specialized transportation required by the Apollo 11 tour. Member companies of the conference will conduct the trip without charge as a public service.”
U-N-T-H-I-N-K-A-B-L-E today. Even in retrospect, probably not the smartest idea, but for far different reasons.
That guard/police officer was probably one of five…or less.
And we continue to descend.
Speaking of:
www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/january-29-1971-apo...
twitter.com/apollo_50th/status/1266107487230390272
Credit: Apollo 50th/Twitter
www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/crowds-throng-to-mo...
Finally:
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum41/HTML/000680.html
Credit: collectSPACE website