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Presenter points at the image of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi on the moon (Shri Adhya Katyani Shakti Peeth Hanuman Mandir, Chhatarpur, India).
F-1 engines being readied for a static test at the NASA "High Thrust Test Area", Edwards AFB, California.
TIMELESS - these engineering marvels look phenomenal, on or off, whether they're vertical, horizontal, inverted, attached to a Saturn V or a test stand, on a transport dolly...even on the ocean floor all crumpled up.
Excellent F-1 reading:
www.thespacereview.com/article/3724/1
Credit: The Space Review website
“A GRUMMAN MOLAB PROTOTYPE, 1964. NASA funded the development of one full-scale Molab prototype, which gathered some important information on the handling of vehicles on a simulated lunar surface at Grumman's Calverton, New York, plant.”
I don’t know about the 1964 thing.
The following used to have pertinent information & images. No longer…poof:
www.grummanpark.org/content/mbs
Credit: Grumman Memorial Park website
Above credit:
www.longislandaerospacehistory.com/Select/LM/XXX-LM-PROJE...
See also:
www.longislandaerospacehistory.com/Select/LM/XXX-LM-PROJE...
Interesting reading:
www.wired.com/2013/01/metalastic-wheels-1962/amp
Credit: Wired.com website/David S. F. Portree
And a most fortuitous find:
www.autoevolution.com/news/grumman-molab-the-lunar-pickup...
Credit: “autoevolution” website
Last but not least:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=44hApNzmS_Q
Credit: PeriscopeFilm/YouTube
Presenter points at the image of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi on the moon (Shri Adhya Katyani Shakti Peeth Hanuman Mandir, Chhatarpur, India).
“Astronaut John W. Young, Apollo 16 Commander, adjusts the high-gain antenna on the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) during the third Extravehicular Activity (EVA-3), April 23, 1972. This view of the LRV was exposed by Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., Lunar Module Pilot, who along with Young, explored the Descartes landing area. Several geological hand tools can be seen in their temporary storing place on the back of the rover. Also visible is the Lunar Portable Magnetometer (LPM) and replete rock bags.”
Note the transparent nature of the LRV's tires due to the ingenious wire mesh design, especially apparent in the left rear. Note also a mounted traverse map (with craters visible), directly above the Command & Display Console. The chevron pattern of the tire tread can be clearly seen on the right rear tire, facilitated by the aft 1/3rd segment of the fender having come off at some point.
A spectacular photograph.
And, per the ALSJ:
Buddy Secondary Life Support System (BSLSS):
www.workingonthemoon.com/WOTM-BSLSS.html
"...Frame from Charlie Duke's Station 10 Prime pan, showing John Young aligning the high-gain antenna. The object at the upper left that includes an arc of white spots is the rake basket under unusual lighting conditions. The magnetometer tripod is next right with its ref/orange ribbon cable. The BSLSS bag hangs from the back of the LMP seat."
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/AS16-117-18818HR.jpg
Outstanding:
dahp.wa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/nominations/WHR...
Credit: Washington State Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation website
Passers-by are shown the image of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi on the moon (Shri Adhya Katyani Shakti Peeth Hanuman Mandir, Chhatarpur, India).
Aspirant studies the image of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi (Shri Adhya Katyani Shakti Peeth Hanuman Mandir, Chhatarpur, India).
Members of Messiah Foundation International hold up banners announcing that Lord Ra Riaz is the Awaited One.
"Buzz has reached the bottom rung of the ladder and is about the jump down to the footpad. As he said at the moment Neil took this picture, "Okay. I'm going to leave that one foot up there and both hands down to about the fourth rung up." The thermal shroud protecting the U.S. flag that Neil and Buzz deploy during the EVA can be seen on the underside of the lefthand ladder rail. See, also, NASA photo S69-38755,
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/mccraw.gif
which shows the flag on a LM mockup in Houston."
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5868.jpg
All above credit the ALSJ.
Also:
"Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, descends the steps of the Lunar Module (LM) ladder as he prepares to walk on the moon. He had just egressed the LM. This photograph was taken by astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, with a 70mm lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA). While Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the LM "Eagle" to explore the moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit."
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
In my world, this, with some variations, is one of the more fondly ingrained Apollo images from my childhood. A 1966/67 artist’s concept depicting the deployment of an Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) by two moonwalking Apollo Astronauts.
The Astronaut in the foreground is emplacing the Supra Thermal Ion Detector. In the background, the ALSEP components from right-to-left are: Solar Wind experiment, Passive Seismometer, a “low-profile” ALSEP central station and Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator. Even the orientation/placement of the experiments in relation to the location/direction of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) is relatively accurate.
The above, along with the earliest year cited, are confirmed by a June 1966 Bendix “ALSEP familiarization manual”, page 26 specifically. With HUGE appreciation, at:
www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/ALSEP/pdf/31111000674190.pdf
Credit: Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) website
Additionally, a plethora of other fantastic ALSEP documents. Wow, thank you LPI:
Further:
www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/ALSEP/pdf/ALSEP%20Press%20Backgrou...
The image (more or less) is iconic (to me) as it was used on the box of the first commercially available (to my knowledge) film footage of the Apollo 11 mission at that time. Produced by Columbia Pictures in color and black & white, in both Super 8 & Regular 8 formats. Fond memories. My parents purchased it for me, from, of all places, Kmart.
Note the subtle depiction of the effect of descent engine plume impingement on the lunar regolith. Note also the oversized ascent stage, hence not a Grumman artist, therefore possibly Gary Meyer?
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.
Members of Messiah Foundation USA show the divine signs to attendees at the Global Citizen Earth Day Concert 2015.
"An artist's concept illustrating how radar beams of the Apollo 17 lunar sounder experiment will probe three-quarters of a mile below the moon's surface from the orbiting spacecraft. The Lunar Sounder will be mounted in the SIM bay of the Apollo 17 Service Module. Electronic data recorded on film will be retrieved by the crew during trans-Earth EVA. Geologic information on the lunar interior obtained by the sounder will permit scientific investigation of underground rock layers, lava flow patterns, rille (canyon) structures, mascon properties, and any areas containing water. A prototype lunar sounder has been flight tested in aircraft over selected Earth sites to confirm the equipment design and develop scientific analysis techniques. The Lunar Sounder Experiment (S-209) was developed by North American Rockwell's (NR) Space Division for NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center to provide data for a scientific investigation team with representatives from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, University of Utah, University of Michigan, U.S. Geological Survey, and NASA Ames Research Center."
An unexpected surprise, above & image at the following link. I actually expected something like "Scientific waves from Apollo Shuttle spaceship probe into Moon's mysterious rock layers":
images.nasa.gov/details-S72-53472
Even still at the following defunct site, with a minimal description:
science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/images/images/pao/AS17/10075...
science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/images/images/pao/AS17/10075...
1972, likely/possibly(?) North American Rockwell (NAR) origination...Manuel Alavarez? Donald Bester? Henry Lozano? Unfortunately, what looks to be a partial signature at the far left, immediately above the lunar limb, doesn't look like that of any of the above. Ugh.
Members of Messiah Foundation USA show the divine signs to attendees at the Global Citizen Earth Day Concert 2015.
A group looks closely at the divine signs of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi on the Moon, Sun, and Maha Shivling (Holy Black Stone).
"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.
Presenter points at the image of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi on the moon (Shri Adhya Katyani Shakti Peeth Hanuman Mandir, Chhatarpur, India).
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.
Members of Messiah Foundation USA show the divine signs to attendees at the Global Citizen Earth Day Concert 2015.
Wonderful & surely rare commemorative raised relief map of Tranquility Base, as produced by the United States Army Topographic Command (TOPOCOM), ca. 1969/70.
TOPOCOM even took a stab at where the U.S. flag was planted. And actually, as a military organization, it’s pretty much expected. Speaking of U.S. flags on the moon...awesome:
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ApolloFlags-Condition.html
Credit: not surprisingly, the ALSJ
I don’t understand the two “camera stations” at/on the LM. One, sure, initially as part of the MESA. But the other? Or is it just referring to photography out the two LM windows?
Compare/contrast. So cool. Again, pretty damned good job:
mobile.twitter.com/contactlight69/status/868510755745918978
Credit: “CONTACT LIGHT”/Twitter
Presenter points at the image of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi on the moon (Shri Adhya Katyani Shakti Peeth Hanuman Mandir, Chhatarpur, India).
Aspirants are shown the divine signs of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi Youths accepting the message of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi (Shree Adya Katyayani Shaktipeeth Temple, Chhatarpur, New Delhi).
“Mount Hadley, fully lighted, showing abundant linear features. Mountain rises approximately 14,765 feet above the plain. Apollo 15 was launched July 26, 1971 at 9:34 a.m. EDT and touched down at the Hadley-Apennine site at 6:16 p.m. EDT, July 30—staying a total time of 66 hours and 55 minutes. Splashdown in the Pacific was August 7, at 4:46 p.m. EDT. Astronaut Alfred M. Worden was the command module pilot; James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot and David R. Scott, commander.”
The electronics box of the Heat Flow Experiment (HFE) can be seen at the far left center of the photograph, along with one of its two sensors protruding up from the surface to the right of it... in the disturbed, heavily trodden, darkened regolith... where David Scott busted his ass trying to get the ALSD to go deep enough to fully emplace the probe, not to mention the extraction of the drill stem first.
Aspirant takes a close look at the image of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi (Shree Adya Katyayani Shaktipeeth Temple, Chhatarpur, New Delhi, India).
A member of Messiah Foundation International holds up a banner announcing that Lord Ra Riaz is the Awaited One.
"Astronaut John W. Young, Apollo 16 commander, with a sample bag in his left hand, moves toward the bottom part of the gnomon (center) while collecting samples at the North Ray Crater geological site. Note how soiled Young's Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) is during this the third and final Apollo 16 extravehicular activity (EVA-3). The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is parked at upper left."
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo16/html/...
Per the stellar ALSJ website:
“This excellent picture of John at Station 10 Prime is a "locator" to the Rover from the rake sample site. the gnomon legs - all that remains of the instrument, is in the foreground.”
Note also the missing aft 1/3 of the right rear fender. And finally, note the semi-transparent nature of the tires, primarily visible in the rear tires. An ingenious & lightweight design that proved highly effective.
Might've been a good idea for Curiosity.
People are given leaflets bearing the image of Kalki Avatar Ra Gohar Shahi (Shri Adhya Katyani Shakti Peeth Hanuman Mandir, Chhatarpur, India).
A member of Messiah Foundation International holds up a banner announcing that Lord Ra Riaz is the Awaited One.
Members of Messiah Foundation USA show the divine signs to attendees at the Global Citizen Earth Day Concert 2015.
A member of Messiah Foundation International gives the message of divine love to a policeman in Bangkok, Thailand.