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“Wonders of the Universe:
Scientists ‘Tailoring…?’
Within the next 12 months, either a Project Mercury astronaut or his Russian counterpart will be orbiting the earth. Yet, even at this late date, no suitable space suit has been developed which would permit the astronaut to move freely into the hostile environment of space outside the satellite or around on the lunar surface.
While in the past, the problem of designing an acceptable space suit was not considered difficult, as the time approaches when the suit should become operational it no longer appears an easy task. To point up the difficulty of this problem, at least three companies are engaged actively in trying to design a suit to cope with space conditions.”
At this point, unfortunately, the verso-affixed newspaper caption was cut off…drats. I would’ve loved to have read the rest of it! I I wish there was a repository of Dr. Levitt’s “Wonders of the Universe” articles. If there is, I haven’t found it.
There are too many wonderful, quirky, clever, questionable, amusing, implausible, etc., etc. things going on here to enumerate. By John Gorsuch…’nuff said. Enjoy.
Artist's rendering of the Lunar Module's descent and landing, possibly published January 18, 1967.
As was often the case during LEM development, this is a latter version of an earlier (1963) concept artwork, updated/modified to reflect the latest external design changes.
I'm relatively certain this is a Gary Meyer work.
Early 1961 NASA artist’s concept of a Nova launch vehicle direct ascent lunar landing mission. I believe at this time that the lander’s method of lunar touchdown was still in flux - either in an upright position on deployable legs or horizontally, using skids on the descent/lunar landing stage.
A slightly different external variation; however, an excellent depiction of both methods:
www.alternatewars.com/SpaceRace/SP-4205/images/c063b.gif
Immensely entertaining description on the verso: "The first phase of the Lunar mission, is the launch from the surface of the earth. In the launch area, adequate protection will have to be provided against the hazards of explosion and against the tremendous noise that will be generated by the huge rocket are of high intensity but of sufficiently low energy to make shielding practicable.
During the course of the flight toward the moon, the position and velocity of the spacecraft will constantly be assessed and corrections will be made in order to bring the craft into the proper position relative to the moon. Although sensitive guidance and control equipment will be required, the spacecraft pilots will play a large part in maneuvering their craft.
It is not yet clear whether or not artificial gravity will be required in the Apollo spacecraft. Results from Project Mercury orbital flights, and from our Life Sciences programs, will settle this question."
GREAT stuff:
ia801408.us.archive.org/33/items/nasa_techdoc_19630002968...
Credit: Internet Archive website - Which has a mind-boggling collection of amazing photos, documents, videos, etc, etc - truly spectacular...especially with the NTRS no longer offering what it used to.
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) / Lunar Landing Training Vehicle (LLTV) flight profile?/characteristics?/parameters?/abort criteria?/possibly actual plotted 'flight data recorder" data - who knows? - graph/plot.
Although the date (year) doesn’t really support it...possibly the plotted flight recorder data from Armstrong’s aborted May 1968 LLRV training session??? Or Joe Algranti’s LLTV crash later (December) that year???
Note the representation in the center which I believe actually depicts the LLRV, with "CAB" actually being the cab, and not an acronym for something else...I think. It would make sense based on the x (pitch)/y (yaw) coordinate system labeled along the circumference.
Apparently used in some sort of LLRV documentation, manual, etc., labeled "Figure 2-A-12.- Roll and Pitch Authority Limits Combined", at:
www.roadrunnersinternationale.com/nasa/photo_2.jpg
Credit: ROADRUNNERS INTERNATIONALE (formerly SECRET HEROES) website
Due to the complexity, challenging flight dynamics and quite advanced principles of the vehicle (ESPECIALLY for that time), an abundance of information is available:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Landing_Research_Vehicle
www.nasa.gov/pdf/89228main_TF-2004-08-DFRC.pdf
www.lunarlanding.info/articles/GOFORLL_lores-part_one_con...
nsc.nasa.gov/SFCS/SystemFailureCaseStudy/Details/155
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/HSI480106LLTVRules.pdf
hydrogen-peroxide.us/history-US-Bell/LLRV-Design_and_Oper...
ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19670013964...
And last, but NOT least:
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/LLRV_Monograph.pdf
Oh yeah, related, tangential, similar informative discussion/additional resources...at the always informative collectSPACE website:
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong made history as the first person to ever walk on the moon. The sad news of his death at age 82 on Saturday reminded me that I had saved my Halifax, Nova Scotia newspaper printed the day after he landed at Tranquility Base and uttered those famous words: "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind."
For any of us who grew up during the space race in the 60s and 70s, and especially Canadians like me who religiously watched the CTV documentary Here Come the Seventies, the moon landing was supposed to be a harbinger of what was to come.
Here Come the Seventies was a half-hour documentary series that looked ahead at anticipated technological marvels and innovations we could expect during the 70s. The show told us there'd be a colony on Mars and we'd all be traveling by electric cars and personal jet packs before the end of the decade - which, of course, we all believed.
Instead, things turned out quite differently. Space exploration budgets have been cut, even the robotic Canadarm, the pride of the Canadian Space Agency, has faded into history. It was recently retired, along with the Space Shuttle program, and is now little more than a museum artifact from a bygone era.
To quote that old sage Yogi Berra, "The future ain't what it used to be." Once, the future was spaceflight. Now it’s cat videos and status updates.
(For an auditory flashback, listen to Tillicum, the infectious musical theme from "Here Come The Seventies" by the Canadian group Syrinx.)
Other items reported in the Monday, July 21, 1969 Halifax Chronicle-Herald:
■ A complaint charging US Senator Edward Kennedy with leaving the scene of an accident (the previous Saturday), in which Mary Jo Kopechne dies, is filed in Edgartown Massachusetts.
■ In London, in a controversial acceptance of the death of the British Empire, the Duncan Report recommends that Britain scale down the rest of its global role and instead place its emphasis on joining the Common Market and "becoming an integral part of the New Europe."
■ Egyptian MiG and Sukhoi jets clash with Israeli Mirages over the Sinai for the first time since 1967. Both sides claim shooting down a number of planes. Both sides claimed victory.
■ Mario Andretti wins the Indianapolis 500.
■ Halifax Chrysler-Dodge advertises brand new Valiants for $2,290
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Top U.S. space expert and the moon rocket model in 57. Collection of photos available on Google LIFE Magazine in 2008. Here is a picture from the session photo and there is one which has made the cover of November 18, 1957 in the Sputnik crisis. The RM-1 spacecraft to the left of Mr. Von Braun, is the model that was used in the Disney movie "Trip Around the Moon" in 1955. Dan Beaumont report. WIKIPEDIA: Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was a German-born rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany during World War II and, subsequently, the United States.
In his 20s and early 30s, von Braun was the central figure in Germany's rocket development program, responsible for the design and realization of the V-2 combat rocket during World War II. After the war, he and some of his rocket team were taken to the United States as part of the then-secret Operation Paperclip. Von Braun worked on the United States Army intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) program before his group was assimilated by NASA, under which he served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon.[1] According to one NASA source, he is "without doubt, the greatest rocket scientist in history".[2] His crowning achievement was to lead the development of the Saturn V booster rocket that helped land the first men on the Moon in July 1969.[3] In 1975 he received the National Medal of Science.
A delightful artist’s concept/photo hybrid of two Apollo astronauts…Armstrong & Aldrin?…at Tranquility Base…with their LRV…possibly about to start a traverse. Or, maybe it’s the initial shakedown drive, since neither the high-gain antenna nor the aft tool carrier is attached to the LRV. Regardless, I like it.
Note the pneumatic appearance of the tires, albeit with the familiar chevron tread pattern. Also, the two trays to either side of the Control and Display Console, one holding a rather stout Hasselblad data camera, the other…a battery…maybe, both apparently secured by bungee cords. I wonder what the small box-like thing attached to the top of the OPS of the "navigator" Astronaut.
I’m assuming this to have been an RCA-produced image due to the GCTA being labeled “RCA”, with Boeing possibly a distant second as source.
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured these images in Pretoria using an old HP flatbed scanner.
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
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Handsome artwork/painting (gouache I believe) depicting an early configuration LEM liftoff & ascent from the moon. Circa 1962/63, by artist/illustrator Don Crowley, most likely produced during his freelancing period.
Fascinating information on Mr. Crowley, who unfortunately, passed on in 2019:
Credit: Don Crowley website
wenaha.com/artist/don-crowley/
Credit: Wenaha Gallery website
Quite a transformation/evolution:
cowboyartistsofamerica.com/active-members/deceased/don-cr...
Credit: Cowboy Artists of America website
www.greenwichworkshop.com/thumbnails/default.asp?a=18&...
Credit: Greenwich Workshop website
Note the exceedingly long...EVA antenna? Possibly jettisoned, folded, or somehow retracted prior to docking? I guess it wasn't an issue if the forward hatch/docking port was used.
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., Apollo 14 Commander, shades his eyes from the sun during the Apollo 14 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the moon. This photograph was taken by Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, Lunar Module Pilot, through the window of the Lunar Module.
And/or, much better, per the ALSJ:
Alan Shepard, Apollo 14 Commander, shades his eyes from the sun during the first Extravehicular Activity on the moon, 5 February 1971. Ed Mitchell took this photo of Al out the right-hand, LMP window. Al is shading his eyes, probably looking up toward Cone Crater. Note the red stripe on the top of Al's helmet. This and similar stripes on his arms and legs help distinguish him from Ed, who has no stripes. This photo provides good views of Al's cuff checklist, his Omega Speedmaster watch, and the strap-on pocket on his left thigh.
We are with the international press photographers who photographed all night, the pad 39a, with the moon rocket Saturn 5 (Apollo 17) at different locations. This is the sunrise and NASA teams are ready to fill the tanks of rocket. There are sounds of insects, frogs and birds in the wetlands. We are tired, but always amazed seen this rocket take off that night. It is a dream child realized. See a lunar rocket on its launch pad, same situation in the book of TINTIN ("Destination Moon", Hergé, First edition album (Belgium) published in 1953). WOW! Info., Scan and remastering Dan beaumont, Pierre-Paul Beaumont photo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yIvOYFOm6c
Wonderful reading. Quaint actually...and the on-the-fly jargon, like ”cosmic debris”, “engine pod” and “safe down”. I love it!
“500-plus degrees”...dang! The rather skimpy looking suits are at least ‘reflective’, so it’s ‘cool’.
;-)
Wonderful artwork by Roy G. Scarfo.
Early (ca. 1961) Thiokol Chemical Corporation artist's concept of possibly an Apollo/Nova(?) lunar lander lifting off (per the handwritten annotation on the verso).
I can't really identify the vehicle design, other than it possibly being a direct ascent version of some sort. The appearance/design was most likely irrelevant, since what is being promoted here is Thiokol's capability to provide the motors to make it happen.
Has a 1950's sci-fi look...kind of 'Forbidden Planet'-like.
"Midcourse maneuvers are performed to place the spacecraft into position for a proper entry into a precise, circular orbit, about 100-nautical miles (60 miles) above the lunar surface. At the proper time, the service module is ignited slowing the spacecraft so that it goes into the precise orbit."
Hand-highlighted areas are due to this photo having been used for news/press release purposes, and I'm assuming the printing technology of the time required it to enhance definition & delineation within the photo.
Gotta love the hi-rise, panoramic-windowed, highly impractical, surely hazardous, minion-appearance LEM configuration.
At the bottom of the ladder, Neil Armstrong said "I'm going to step off the LEM now" (referring to the Apollo Lunar Module). He then turned and set his left boot on the surface and spoke the words "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." The stamp captures that moment.
David Meltzer, Lunar Excursion Module Prepares to Dock with its Mothership, 1960s
SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont.
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
On display at Kennedy Space Center
#apollo11 #space #lunarlanding #nasa #kennedyspacecenter #astronaut #saturnV #rocket #thefinalfrontier #commandmodule
“APOLLO 11 25TH ANNIVERSARY POSTER VIEW --- This poster has been produced at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the historic lunar landing’s 25th anniversary. It features an artist’s representation of the three astronauts, Earth and the Moon, the spacecraft Columbia and Eagle, along with the symbolic first footprint on the lunar surface.”
I’ve never really taken a good close look at this until now. It looks like crap, with no attention to detail...or historical accuracy. For example, some of the inset images that run diagonally are NOT even from the Apollo 11 mission...the Lunar Module (Intrepid) image is from Apollo 12 and I think the Command Module (Charlie Brown) image is from Apollo 10. At least they’re the right astronauts, although ‘Aldrin’ looks a little iffy. The inferior resolution makes it difficult to confirm. Then there’s the obligatory “visor shot” - actually from Apollo 11 at least - along with (a portion of) the gratuitous “Blue Marble” from Apollo 17. Who knows which mission the photo of the moon is from.
Seriously, this looks like an assignment turned in for an “Introduction to PowerPoint” class, by an unmotivated student, at the last minute, who was limited to using stock photos, clip art and a limited color pallet.
I will however concede, being somewhat unrefined, that maybe I’m missing something here. Maybe there was some (then) new creative imaging technology that converted photos into mottled low resolution representations of the original...that just HAD to be incorporated into this piece of...’work’.
Regardless, I hope it wasn’t a commissioned project. Whatever, it doesn't matter in the slightest...right?
I was/am not aware of an “official” poster/image for the 50th anniversary. Was/is this it?:
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured these images in Pretoria using an old HP flatbed scanner.
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
NASA INFO: FOR RELEASE: 1961: The flight configuration of the giant three-stage Saturn C-1 rocket is seen in the fabrication and assembly engineering division at the G. C. Marchall Space Flight Center, NASA, Huntsville, Alabama, dwarfed by 180' foot C-1 are a Juno 2 rocket (left rear) and a Mercury/Redstone rocket (front foreground). 4x5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, 61-SAT-11 Saturn-3, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont
“A computerized rendering illustrating the field of view for the Astronauts on the approach to the landing site for the NASA Apollo 17 Lunar mission.”
Cutting edge late-1972 visual graphics technology on display! The crater shadows do however look like they're by hand. 😉
Actually, the depiction, especially that of the elevated regions, is remarkably detailed and accurate when compared to mission photographs.
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured these images in Pretoria using an old HP flatbed scanner.
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
Interior mobility study being conducted using Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) Training Model 1 (TM-1).
Fascinating read on Gerd De Beek, to whom this photo was specifically to be distributed:
clarencesimonsen.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/chapter-seven-g...
clarencesimonsen.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/chapter-eigh...
Credit: Clarence Simonsen
Per an August 1962 Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) organizational chart, de Beek was head of the Graphic Engineering and Model Studies Branch, Office of Management Services (OMS)/Management Services Office (office symbol M-MS).
Possibly the same “M-MS” that constitutes the beginning alphanumeric numbering of many early MSFC-produced concept art?
Same photo used as "header" for this excellent article & accompanying video. A small bit of history preserved, bravo:
www.memagazinedigital.org/memagazine/july_2019/MobilePage...
Credit: Mechanical Engineering Magazine online website
“A frame from a pan Pete took just before he and Al arrived at Sharp Crater. He is looking back toward Bench Crater, possibly to get his bearings. Pete and Al are coming down a slight slope toward Sharp Crater and it is an intervening ridge - rather than curvature of the Moon - that is hiding the lower portions of the LM and the S-Band antenna. Note how visible the rocks are because we can see the shadows they cast.”
Above paraphrased from the ALSJ, at/from:
www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/a12/images12.html
I think the other protuberance above the lunar surface, further to the left of the erectable S-Band antenna, is the top portion of the drooped United States flag.
So, they were in the lower left corner of this amazing image, a little to the right of Sharp Crater, somewhere along the darkened paths marking their footprints:
lroc.im-ldi.com/news/uploads/M175428601RE_25cm_AP12_area.png
Credit: NASA/GSFC/LROC, School of Earth and Space Exploration, ASU website
“Apollo 17 visibility study altitude 503 sea 17° flt. Crew trw.”
The view looking out the Lunar Module window of Cdr. Eugene Cernan, from an altitude of 503 feet, as displayed in the Lunar Module Simulator, at the KSC Landing and Ascent Facility. The grid-like markings comprise the Landing Point Designator (LPD).
I believe the extended relief feature to be South Massif. I wish I could identify the larger crater on the right. Too small to be Camelot I think, especially at 500'? Could Cernan even see Camelot at this point? Steno? Powell?
Excellent LM descent/ascent reading:
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/nasa58040.pdf
Credit: ALSJ website
Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
In 1969, Apollo 12 landed about 600 feet from Surveyor 3 robotic probe that had landed on the moon in 1967 during pre-Apollo recognition. Here, Alan Bean and Pete Conrad inspect the Surveyor. INFO: From "In the stream of stars", "The Soviet/American Space Art book" (New York) 1990
SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont.
“APOLLO 16 PANORAMA -- The first of three composite pictures consisting of individual scenes photographed during the third Apollo 16 lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA-3) at the Descartes landing site. The three photographs provide a 360-degree field of view at Station 13, near North Ray Crater. The Lunar Roving Vehicle is parked in the center. The large, lone boulder is called “Shadow Rock.” Smoky Mountain is in the right background. (The second composite is S-72-38174; and the third composite is S-72-38173)”
Absolutely amazing. You can zoom in on Station 13 and clearly see the boulder and the darkened regolith where Young & Duke trod...and in the panorama:
lroc.sese.asu.edu/featured_sites/view_site/55
Credit: LROC/Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration website
The Apollo 11 Astronauts: ABOVE LEFT: The portrait of the three Apollo 11 astronauts, commissioned to celebrate the lunar landing in 1969 is perhaps Tobey's most recognizable group portrait, as millions of reproductions were sold across the USA. Pictured left to right are pilot Edwin Aldrin, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, & Commander Neil Armstrong.
This color lithographic print titled "Astronauts of Apollo 11 - First on the Moon 1969" after the painting by Alton S. Tobey, published in 1969 by the Donald Art Company. The print depicting the three astronauts in their white spacesuits before a scene of the earth and moon.
ALTON S. TOBEY, WEBSITE INFO: www.altontobey.com/index.html
REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont.
Apollo 17 a terrific launch, Can not forgotten, 40 years ago, I was at the Press-site at the Kennedy Space Center accredited by NASA to witness with the greatest journalists of the time of the last Apollo lunar mission. Since December 3, I visit the facility launches, assembly and training. I attend all the press conferences (Alan Shepard, Rocco Petrone etc.). Also several photo shoots of the Saturn-5 day and night. It's been two days that I have not slept and around me, there is Walter Cronkite of CBS, Jules Bergman of ABC, Ralph Morse of Life magazine, whoops! Whener Von Braun passes before me. It is hot and humid as a summer night. After over 2 hours late, I am now with photographers on the side of Banana River, which separates us from the rocket launch to 3 miles. I stand by with a camera Bell & Howell Super 8 with Filmosound. Everyone is looking forward and hope that will not another disorder technique because the launch will be postponed a month. You will hear during the countdown and launch of clicks after all these cameras and you have the sound of a large transistor radio coverage with the launch of Apollo 17 in directly to a station. Now it's 0:33. In - 4 secs. ignition of five F-1 engines are visible with a big blinding flash of light. The sound is absent, but the ground shakes, it's an earthquake! At 0 sec. The rocket rises slowly to the ramp. The flame grows bright! This is a sunrise orange with light effects in the fire of diamonds. One can see bursts of shock waves that appear around the rocket. This is absolutely amazing! Everyone is hysterical. With more than 11 secs. The launch tower is clear and the sound comes from a violent blow, rumbling low frequencies and multiple clicks clear, as dozens of lashes. The rocket takes an angle in the sky and the sound becomes louder and extremely heavy with thunder in the tens to the second. We are totally overwhelmed by the noise. It's like a situation out of control and too impressive at the same time. Sound, we shot the belly and we hammered the entire body. Nothing can be comparable. The sky became illuminated like daylight, but like orange on Mars. Fantastic! Wonderful! Before me, the men went to the moon. This is wonderful and memorable ... I was 16, I was very serious, very aware and well documented to live this historic event. Dan Beaumont report. Pierre-Paul Beaumont photo.
ATTENTION APOLLO 17 : " A terrific launch ". EXCEPTIONAL REAL SOUND LIVE, Dan Beaumont film, December 7, 1972 VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yIvOYFOm6c
“Apollo Landing Site 3
This sample plastic relief map depicts a portion of the precise lunar topographic model prepared for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This model is an integral part of a Lunar Module Simulator. The simulator provides crew training and orientation for Apollo Astronauts for scheduled lunar landings and is installed at the John F. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Kennedy Florida. The “lunar surface was prepared by the U.S. Army Topographic Command from Orbiter IV and V photography provided by NASA. The completed model contains over 500,000 craters, measures 22 feet by 14 feet, and weighs approximately 600 pounds.”
“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
I had before me a moon rocket "This is the last". That was the reality. Technicians and engineers working on the pad 39a, in the main tower and we see the Mobile Service Structure, that just released the Saturn 5 rocket. Sounds of the engines crawler carrier "piston engines sound" that we can hear very well. There are a lot activities. It was a great moment that strikes the imagination. Dan Beaumont. (Pierre Paul Beaumont photo), Dan Beaumont photo restoration. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yIvOYFOm6c
Dr. Wernher von Braun, the first center director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is carried aloft on the shoulders of city officials during the Apollo 11 celebration in downtown Huntsville on July 24, 1969. The Marshall Center worked with companies across America to build the Saturn vehicles under the direction of von Braun. The Apollo 11 lifted off in July and made the first manned lunar landing on the moon.
Image credit: NASA
More about Marshall Center history:
www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/index.html
Marshall History Album on Flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/sets/72157636868630444/
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"First released photograph of the scale model of the lunar excursion module (LEM) proposed by the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. of Bethpage, New York. This is the vehicle in which Americans will land on the moon and return to a moon-orbiting Apollo mother craft. Grumman was announced on Nov. 7, 1962 as the company selected to build the LEM for the Apollo program."
Interesting to see Grumman's evolution of the LEM at one setting:
www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-4205/images/c145a.jpg
Associated description for the above:
"Lunar module generations from 1962 (above left; the vehicle originally proposed by Grumman) to 1969 (a model of the version that landed on the moon). The second and third from the left are renderings for 1963 and 1965."
I wanted to learn some of the features seen on the moon so I made this little graphic. The Apollo landing sites are also included. Apollo 10, crewed by astronauts Cernan, Stafford and Young, was a test run for Apollo 11's landing. Apollo 10 orbited to within 8.4 nautical miles of the moon's surface and produced the first color images broadcast from space.
Apollo 11, carried by the Saturn V rocket and crewed by Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin, was the first manned mission to land on the moon. Launched on 16 July 1969, Armstrong descended the ladder and onto the moons surface on 21 July with the famous line "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind." Apollo 13 was unable to land on the moon as we know, detailed in Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks.
As a side note, during the Civilian Conservation Corps reunion at Frozen Head in July, 2007, I met the man that made the ladder Armstong descended to the surface. He said that he watched the landing on tv and thought it was funny that they just left "his" ladder there.
Without labels here.
Image captured from Frozen Head State Park, Tennessee, USA
Swarovski ATS 80 HD w/20-60x eyepiece
Nikon CoolPix 995
Labels added in Paint Shop Pro
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., Apollo 14 Commander, shades his eyes from the sun during the Apollo 14 Extravehicular Activity (EVA) on the moon. This photograph was taken by Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, Lunar Module Pilot, through the window of the Lunar Module.
And/or, much better, per the ALSJ:
Alan Shepard, Apollo 14 Commander, shades his eyes from the sun during the first Extravehicular Activity on the moon, 5 February 1971. Ed Mitchell took this photo of Al out the right-hand, LMP window. Al is shading his eyes, probably looking up toward Cone Crater. Note the red stripe on the top of Al's helmet. This and similar stripes on his arms and legs help distinguish him from Ed, who has no stripes. This photo provides good views of Al's cuff checklist, his Omega Speedmaster watch, and the strap-on pocket on his left thigh.
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
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"LRV traverse from Station 9 to the LM. The LM is just under the extension of the high-gain antenna."
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/AS17-134-20456HR.jpg
All above per the ALSJ.
It's actually to the right of the high-gain antenna mast, just under the dark/light border between the foreground lunar surface and South Massif in the distance. Only the ascent stage is visible. To the right of it (more discernible in the online image) may be the ALSEP central station...above & slightly to the right of the nearer rock/boulder...which actually has a very similar shape to that of the LM ascent stage.
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016