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An engineering, structural, thermal…or something like that model/mock-up of a Surveyor lunar lander is lowered into/raised from? the black maw of a 50-foot-high space environment chamber at the Boeing Space Center near Seattle, Washington. Circa 1961-64?
Is the big round thing an early representation of a high gain antenna?
Although probably not uncommon, I nonetheless found it interesting that a Hughes Aircraft Company product was in a Boeing Company facility. I suppose if you’re the only one with a vacuum chamber & the other party has the money, it’s all good. In fact, in researching this symbiotic arrangement, Boeing currently touts its availability of just such a capability:
www.boeing.com/company/key-orgs/boeing-testing-services/e...
Credit: Boeing website
"APOLLO MODEL - - One-twentieth size engineering model of the Apollo Block-I Spacecraft 012 Command Module."
Spacecraft/Command Module 012 was that of Apollo 1.
The scale cited would make the diameter of this model 7.7". Note the seam, so I assume it’s hinged to reveal the interior. I wish I had a photograph of that!
‘Technically’, the two roll reaction control system thrusters on the left should’ve been depicted as ovals...in order to induce such roll.
Hence, I'm certain this isn’t an "engineering model". Nor is it specifically CM-012. I think it’s a generic (Block I?) Apollo command module model. Yet another bumbling, uninformed, doofus write-up IMHO. What’s for certain is that it’s really cool.
View of the full-size Rosetta engineering model (EQM) at ESOC, Darmstadt.
Rosetta is en route to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, where it will make the most detailed study of a comet ever attempted. It will follow the comet on its journey through the inner Solar System, measuring the increase in activity as the icy surface is warmed up by the Sun. The lander will focus on the composition and structure of the comet nucleus material. It will also drill more than 20cm into the subsurface to collect samples for inspection by the lander’s onboard laboratory.
More about Rosetta: www.esa.int/rosetta
Credit: ESA/J.Mai
I don’t know. Obviously, it’s a Command/Service Module configuration of some sort. I don’t even think the Command Module (CM) is a boilerplate. Does it qualify as a mockup? An engineering model? Although externally, it’s relatively featureless, at least from this perspective, there does appear to be instrumentation internal to it. And note that the orifice on the right of it appears to have a hinged access door.
Lastly, the technician at left is wearing a lab coat bearing “NASA TECHNICAL SERVICES” on the back, so I think it’s at least safe to assume this is at a NASA facility, MSC I’d think.
Could it possibly be what’s in the photo I’ve linked to below?
Regardless, it’s cool.
Brings to mind Starhip.
View of the full-size Rosetta engineering model (EQM) at ESOC, Darmstadt.
Rosetta is en route to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, where it will make the most detailed study of a comet ever attempted. It will follow the comet on its journey through the inner Solar System, measuring the increase in activity as the icy surface is warmed up by the Sun. The lander will focus on the composition and structure of the comet nucleus material. It will also drill more than 20cm into the subsurface to collect samples for inspection by the lander’s onboard laboratory.
More about Rosetta: www.esa.int/rosetta
Credit: ESA/J.Mai
Engineering model, 1970
Venera 7 performed the first ever controlled landing on the surface of another planet. The spacecraft survived for 23 minutes on the surface of Venus, defying temperatures of almost 500 degrees Celsius. The Venera spacecraft design had been strengthened over several missions to resist the immense pressure, acidity and searing temperatures of Vensus's atmosphere.
Taken from the Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age exhibition at the Science Museum (September 2015 to March 2016).
Original landed on Venus (1970). Soviet Space Programme. Cosmonauts Exhibition, Science Museum, London, UK.
Engineering model, 1970
Venera 7 performed the first ever controlled landing on the surface of another planet. The spacecraft survived for 23 minutes on the surface of Venus, defying temperatures of almost 500 degrees Celsius. The Venera spacecraft design had been strengthened over several missions to resist the immense pressure, acidity and searing temperatures of Vensus's atmosphere.
Taken from the Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age exhibition at the Science Museum (September 2015 to March 2016).
1/20th scale Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) engineering model depicting its descent to the lunar surface, ca. 1966.
Note: The ladder appears to be missing...on an "engineering model". I think not. "Desktop model"...sure.
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Lunokhod 1 lunar roving vehicle (engineering model, 1970)
Two Lunokhod vehicles were sent to the Moon's surface, and remain there now. The Lunokhod vehicles were originally intended to support cosmonauts landing on the Moon. They were expected to land first, and act as a radio beacon and emergency buggy for travelling to a backup lunar lander. Their TV and photographic cameras recorded thousands of images and instruments analysed the lunar environment. During their working life on the Moon both travelled over 50 km, under the control of operators on Earth.
[Science Museum]
Taken from the Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age exhibition at the Science Museum (September 2015 to March 2016).
Lunokhod 1 lunar roving vehicle (engineering model, 1970)
Two Lunokhod vehicles were sent to the Moon's surface, and remain there now. The Lunokhod vehicles were originally intended to support cosmonauts landing on the Moon. They were expected to land first, and act as a radio beacon and emergency buggy for travelling to a backup lunar lander. Their TV and photographic cameras recorded thousands of images and instruments analysed the lunar environment. During their working life on the Moon both travelled over 50 km, under the control of operators on Earth.
[Science Museum]
Taken from the Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age exhibition at the Science Museum (September 2015 to March 2016).
Lunokhod 1 lunar roving vehicle (engineering model, 1970)
Two Lunokhod vehicles were sent to the Moon's surface, and remain there now. The Lunokhod vehicles were originally intended to support cosmonauts landing on the Moon. They were expected to land first, and act as a radio beacon and emergency buggy for travelling to a backup lunar lander. Their TV and photographic cameras recorded thousands of images and instruments analysed the lunar environment. During their working life on the Moon both travelled over 50 km, under the control of operators on Earth.
[Science Museum]
Taken from the Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age exhibition at the Science Museum (September 2015 to March 2016).
Original landed on Venus (1970). Soviet Space Programme. Cosmonauts Exhibition, Science Museum, London, UK.
Lunokhod 1 lunar roving vehicle (engineering model, 1970)
Two Lunokhod vehicles were sent to the Moon's surface, and remain there now. The Lunokhod vehicles were originally intended to support cosmonauts landing on the Moon. They were expected to land first, and act as a radio beacon and emergency buggy for travelling to a backup lunar lander. Their TV and photographic cameras recorded thousands of images and instruments analysed the lunar environment. During their working life on the Moon both travelled over 50 km, under the control of operators on Earth.
[Science Museum]
Taken from the Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age exhibition at the Science Museum (September 2015 to March 2016).
Lunokhod 1 lunar roving vehicle (engineering model, 1970)
Two Lunokhod vehicles were sent to the Moon's surface, and remain there now. The Lunokhod vehicles were originally intended to support cosmonauts landing on the Moon. They were expected to land first, and act as a radio beacon and emergency buggy for travelling to a backup lunar lander. Their TV and photographic cameras recorded thousands of images and instruments analysed the lunar environment. During their working life on the Moon both travelled over 50 km, under the control of operators on Earth.
[Science Museum]
Taken from the Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age exhibition at the Science Museum (September 2015 to March 2016).
Probable Surveyor engineering model S-10, ca. 1968.
The model most closely depicts Surveyor 7, with both the surface sampler and alpha-scattering instrument.
Also:
www.hughesscgheritage.com/surveyor-in-the-national-air-sp...
airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/lunar-lander-survey...
Name: AECL Heavy Water Production Plant Engineering Model
Artifact No.: 2003.0036
Location: Canada Science and Technology Museum, Storage Facility, Ottawa
Photo by: D. Maillet
Originally supposed to be constructed in Saguenay, Qc by AECL, this Heavy Water Production Plant was most likely the victim of Canada’s downsizing Nuclear Energy industry, and when Canada ceased producing Heavy Water at the Bruce Nuclear Power Station in 1997, all plans for future production plants were cancelled and therefore it was never built. Prior to this decision, the engineering model was then donated by AECL to the University of Waterloo where it ended up in the Engineering department in pieces for a number of years, until Professor John Chatzis asked Mechanical Systems Designer Mr. Bert Habicher to attempt to rebuilt it. In 1997 Mr. Habicher, having never seen the model together did his best from his knowledge of Heavy Water Plants, and photographs. Although even today he believes there are perhaps a number of errors in his reconstruction. Constructed out of fully standard scale building materials, the model spent a number of years largely collecting dust, until the University of Waterloo decided that it was far too large for the space they had to display it, and Mr. Habicher received permission from the institution and donated it to the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 2003, where it has remained under plastic sheets and parts are still in pieces and over several tables.
Mr. Habicher alluded to a possible connection with an Engineer by the name of James Scott, who previously was employed with Dominion Bridge Canada (Currently employed with Andritz Hydro Ltée – we have been unable to make contact). Dominion previously built the Reactor Vessels for the CANDU 2 reactors which entered service in 1983. However, Dominion Bridge went Bankrupt in 1993, and was purchased by Cedar Group, which continued to operate Dominions metal industries. In 1998, after more financial troubles Cedar Group sold its portions of the former Dominion Bridge to ADF Heavy Industries. In 2003 ADF closed the remaining former Dominion metal factories and sold the assets to Cintube, who continues to hold the assets/properties. In 2008 Corporations Canada accepted and approved the application for Dominion Bridge Inc. Corp. No. 3010864 which had previously been dissolved in 2003. To date there has been no movement from any such company and was perhaps just to keep the copyright on the industry name. Dominion bridge Inc.’s file is managed by RSM Richter Inc.
The Table pictured is one of several, and stands at close to 10+ft, as it is not fully assembled in the photo.
Lunokhod 1 lunar roving vehicle (engineering model, 1970)
Two Lunokhod vehicles were sent to the Moon's surface, and remain there now. The Lunokhod vehicles were originally intended to support cosmonauts landing on the Moon. They were expected to land first, and act as a radio beacon and emergency buggy for travelling to a backup lunar lander. Their TV and photographic cameras recorded thousands of images and instruments analysed the lunar environment. During their working life on the Moon both travelled over 50 km, under the control of operators on Earth.
[Science Museum]
Taken from the Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age exhibition at the Science Museum (September 2015 to March 2016).
Lunokhod 1 lunar roving vehicle (engineering model, 1970)
Two Lunokhod vehicles were sent to the Moon's surface, and remain there now. The Lunokhod vehicles were originally intended to support cosmonauts landing on the Moon. They were expected to land first, and act as a radio beacon and emergency buggy for travelling to a backup lunar lander. Their TV and photographic cameras recorded thousands of images and instruments analysed the lunar environment. During their working life on the Moon both travelled over 50 km, under the control of operators on Earth.
[Science Museum]
Taken from the Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age exhibition at the Science Museum (September 2015 to March 2016).
Another clue that this was never a production aircraft. Each of the production B-2's were given the name 'Spirit of ' (the way the Navy used to name battleships after states).
(the one that crashed in Guam - was 'Spirit of Kansas')
SPAR Aerospace Limited
Brampton, Ontario
ca. 1990’s
Source: Canadian Space Agency, David Florida Laboratory, Ottawa, ON
Built by SPAR Aerospace Ltd. in the early 1990’s, this artifact is a full scale engineering model of a solar array belonging to the Radarsat-1 satellite. The array represents one complete wing of the spacecraft and consists of five panels attached to one another by hinges, springs, and a deployment mechanism.
While solar panels convert sunlight to electricity, the function of this model was to test the solar array’s deployment mechanism prior to launch. Notable for being the first deployable solar array developed in Canada, the device was tested at the David Florida Laboratory, a spacecraft assembly, integration and testing facility.
Radarsat-1, Canada’s first remote sensing satellite was designed to provide imagery of Earth’s surface to be used in areas such as disaster management, agriculture, cartography, forestry, ice studies and coastal monitoring. Developed by the Canadian Space Agency and about 100 Canadian and international organizations, it was launched from Vandenberg Airforce Base in California in November 1995.
Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation
Photo credit: CSTMC
Cancelled Soviet Manned Moon Exploration Programme. Cosmonauts Exhibition, Science Museum, London, UK.
Dave Rippington overseeing vibration testing on the MIRI, ( Mid InfraRed instrument ), for the James Webb Space Telescope, JWST, Engineering Model on a Ling Dynamic Systems shaker in the Space Science and Technology Departments vibration test facility, R46, at STFC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 14th December 2009.
Name: AECL Heavy Water Production Plant Engineering Model
Artifact No.: 2003.0036
Location: Canada Science and Technology Museum, Storage Facility, Ottawa
Photo by: G. Fullerton
In this semi-aerial photo of the back-left corner of the model, shows the various walk-ways and pipe systems that lead up from the base towards the middle of the model.
Name: AECL Heavy Water Production Plant Engineering Model
Artifact No.: 2003.0036
Location: Canada Science and Technology Museum, Storage Facility, Ottawa
Photo by: G. Fullerton
In this under Cat-Walk close up, the various labels, pipe-systems and knobs are clearly shown. The knobs we notices are beads cut in half in most cases.
Name: AECL Heavy Water Production Plant Engineering Model
Artifact No.: 2003.0036
Location: Canada Science and Technology Museum, Storage Facility, Ottawa
Photo by: D. Maillet
Name: AECL Heavy Water Production Plant Engineering Model
Artifact No.: 2003.0036
Location: Canada Science and Technology Museum, Storage Facility, Ottawa
Photo by: D. Maillet
In this close-up view, the globs of glue are visible where it seems the model has been/was broken. Which fits with the fact that there are two cylinder tower extensions that were not replaced when we viewed the model. It also fits with Mr. Habicher's description of the model being broken when he attempted to reconstruct it.
Name: AECL Heavy Water Production Plant Engineering Model
Artifact No.: 2003.0036
Location: Canada Science and Technology Museum, Storage Facility, Ottawa
Photo by: D. Maillet
In this Semi-Aerial photo, the front left corner of the table is view with all the intricacies of the engineering model.
Name: AECL Heavy Water Production Plant Engineering Model
Artifact No.: 2003.0036
Location: Canada Science and Technology Museum, Storage Facility, Ottawa
Photo by: D. Maillet
In this photo, which was taken in an attempt to show the size of this model. Pictured with the model is G. Fullerton, who stands easily at 5'10'' and the model dwarfs him and myself. The Model is also missing the upper sections of the Hot and Cold Water Tubes.
Name: AECL Heavy Water Production Plant Engineering Model
Artifact No.: 2003.0036
Location: Canada Science and Technology Museum, Storage Facility, Ottawa
Photo by: D. Maillet
Base-Up View of the table we would late have uncovered, as it shows the plastic in the background. Please note during this research an error in the artifact numbering was found with this model. The official number is 2003.0036, NOT the 2002.0036 which can be read in the picture.
Name: AECL Heavy Water Production Plant Engineering Model
Artifact No.: 2003.0036
Location: Canada Science and Technology Museum, Storage Facility, Ottawa
Photo by: D. Maillet
This is a close-up photo of the Humid Pumps and various chemical labels which indicate what would be stored inside these two cylinders.
Name: AECL Heavy Water Production Plant Engineering Model
Artifact No.: 2003.0036
Location: Canada Science and Technology Museum, Storage Facility, Ottawa
Photo by: D. Maillet
In this close-up Cat-Walk view, shows the detail which was placed into the Cat-Walk. However, if you look close you can see that there are sections with mess-like material on the walk-way while there are others that are just clear.
Name: AECL Heavy Water Production Plant Engineering Model
Artifact No.: 2003.0036
Location: Canada Science and Technology Museum, Storage Facility, Ottawa
Photo by: D. Maillet
This is a close-up photo of the intricacies in pipe work and labelingon this engineering model. Today we take things like this for granted, as we have 3-D modeling software to aid in this process.
Name: AECL Heavy Water Production Plant Engineering Model
Artifact No.: 2003.0036
Location: Canada Science and Technology Museum, Storage Facility, Ottawa
Photo by: G. Fullerton
In this close-up of the front walk-way, shows how the pipe-systems and labeling continue throughout the model, nothing seems to have been forgotten.
Name: AECL Heavy Water Production Plant Engineering Model
Artifact No.: 2003.0036
Location: Canada Science and Technology Museum, Storage Facility, Ottawa
Photo by: D. Maillet
This close-up photo of the intricacies of the Cat-Walk system in this engineering model. This table would unfortunately not come out form under its plastic sheet for closer viewing.
Name: AECL Heavy Water Production Plant Engineering Model
Artifact No.: 2003.0036
Location: Canada Science and Technology Museum, Storage Facility, Ottawa
Photo by: G. Fullerton
In this base-up photo, the towering stance of the model was attempted to be captured. Just imagine the cylinder tower extensions, had they been on.
Name: AECL Heavy Water Production Plant Engineering Model
Artifact No.: 2003.0036
Location: Canada Science and Technology Museum, Storage Facility, Ottawa
Photo by: D. Maillet
This is a close-up photo of the intricacies of the labeling system on this engineering model. Today we take things like this for granted, as we have 3-D modeling software to aid in this process.
Name: AECL Heavy Water Production Plant Engineering Model
Artifact No.: 2003.0036
Location: Canada Science and Technology Museum, Storage Facility, Ottawa
Photo by: G. Fullerton
In this close-up, the intricacies of the labeling system are shown, and even though they are simple, they mean little to two historians like ourselves. Engineering degree is still required....