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An unidentified individual descends the ladder of an unidentified Lunar Module (LM) Test Model (TM) or Mock-up (M) at an unidentified location while conducting some sort of Extravehicular Activity (EVA) training, evaluation(s) of the space suit, procedures & LM configuration(s), to possibly include ease of egress/ingress…or something like that…I think.
At least I’m pretty sure it’s some time during 1966. 😉 And, I think that the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) is a safe bet as far as location. Also, based on the lighting, it’s inside.
I wonder if it’s an Astronaut, and if so, who…or is it somebody from the Crew Systems Division…like Jack Mays or Jack Slight? I suppose we’ll never know.
Based primarily on the boots, I believe the suit worn to be International Latex Corporation’s (ILC) A-5L Training Suit. Sorta in support of such, see:
www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/ILC-S...
And:
www.christies.com.cn/en/lot/lot-1560672
Credit: Christie’s auction house website
Note some interesting things going on with the LM porch/handrail & ladder, which seems to include an additional peripheral/secondary/alternate(?) porch handrail, immediately to the outside of the primary handrails…with its lower structure crossing behind/inside the descent stage’s primary strut. And the odd placement of the S-band inflight antenna…way off to the left. You can’t go any farther left than that.
Note also the progressively inward placement of the top two ladder rungs, the second-from-the-top being curved in the middle to accommodate this, and the top actually going into the primary strut itself, representative of the final configuration. As such, this may be one of the earliest training models/mock-ups with this configuration, considering that this is 1966. Further, note also the cylindrical housing/container for the Erectable S-Band Antenna, on the descent stage (at lower right of photo). BTW, excellent Erectable S-Band Antenna reading:
www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/WOTM/WOTM-Erectable-S-Band.html
There are a few other things, but I’ve already gone too far.
The kitchen module. In a lot of ways this was the most complex section. Again the goal was a screen accurate representation. I absolutely did not want large blocky shelves, fridge etc. And space is tight here.
I'm very impressed with the results even if I do say so myself.
Bremen, Germany. Orion's European Service Module is loaded on the Antonov airplane for transport to Kennedy Space Center.
For the first time, NASA will use a European-built system as a critical element to power an American spacecraft, extending the international cooperation of the International Space Station into deep space. The European Service Module is a unique collaboration across space agencies and industry including ESA’s prime contractor, Airbus, and 10 European countries. The completion of service module work in Europe and shipment to Kennedy signifies a major milestone toward NASA’s human deep space exploration missions to the Moon and beyond.
Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak
Bremen, Germany. Orion's European Service Module is loaded on the Antonov airplane for transport to Kennedy Space Center.
For the first time, NASA will use a European-built system as a critical element to power an American spacecraft, extending the international cooperation of the International Space Station into deep space. The European Service Module is a unique collaboration across space agencies and industry including ESA’s prime contractor, Airbus, and 10 European countries. The completion of service module work in Europe and shipment to Kennedy signifies a major milestone toward NASA’s human deep space exploration missions to the Moon and beyond.
Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak
A look at my currently available MILS Modules. As you may have already seen, these make for a sizeable yet modest layout.
Akiyuki's Spiral Module GBC
Lego Technic
Designed by Akiyuki
Instructions by 9v System and Blakbird
Master built by OneMoreRobot 2016
Some cool rapidly prototyping photos:
Extender Module
Image by Michael Kappel
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Module for transporting containers. It an expansion of the Rock Raiders Tunnel Transport 2.0 helicopter.
ESA’s Columbus module on the International Space Station. The Danish and Swedish flags are in the background, representing the nationalities of Andreas Mogensen (Denmark) and Marcus Wandt (Sweden).
Credits: ESA-M. Wandt
The City Space theme continues to inspire. I wanted to use the curved quarter panels as a windscreen, and by excellent luck had the matching curve plate in sand blue. From then on it was just a matter of mixing the design cues and colour scheme from the sets with my build.
Rather pleased with this, looks chunky and industrial near-future. The crane, while functional, can't lift the module without ripping itself apart. Oh well.
Probably won't take any more pictures of the module itself either, it's just an empty shell that seems to be more like a double-decker carriage on a scenic train than a science module. Some more work on that will be required, I think. But that's a problem for another time. I already have an idea for a larger build that will incorporate four of these modules.
After struggling with sub-standard tables at public shows resulting in warped baseplates, wavy track alignment, etc.; I decided I should build my own table modules. The design objectives were as follows:
1) self-contained table module with legs, wiring, etc. built-in
2) dimensionally aligned to integer multiples of 16-studs
3) mutually aligned with dowels and/or bolts in both end-end or end-side configurations
4) support optional drop-in modules between self-standing modules
The design you see here is the result. I have built 4x of these modules for my latest Lego model railway and I am quite satisfied with the result. They have proven to be very robust and provide a flat consistent surface for the baseplates. The disadvantage of this design is its weight. Its a compromise I was willing to accept in exchange for robustness. These modules have to survive the rigours of transport to/from public shows as well as within my own house!
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Led flash module. Inside the opening for the Mitutoyo 10X lens. The 12 power leds are not solderd but connected via 24 x M2 brass screws which press on the led contacts. I can even modify LED types with the same module.
The 12 LEDs are divided into 6 groups. Each time there are two LEDs connected together on the PCB. LEDs shine through the 12 holes of 8mm diameter each. Each group can be controlled separately. The direction and amount of light may be a result set.
The base plate is made of aluminum for cooling. The back of the LEDs have an additional thin special thermal film of 0.2mm in order to have good thermal conductivity. The LEDs can operate continuously at full power.
Driver module: www.flickr.com/photos/fotoopa_hs/15765655185
Name : Snowflake Module
Designer : Francis M. Y. Ow
Folder : Sam.Amalan
Parts : 6
Joint : Nothing (Assembly Little Tricky )
Diagram : Reverse Engineered
Today I saw this model it attracted me much to fold,But my paper is worst.
Francis Ow is one of the best modular designer in the world,and also one of my most Respectable person,He is so kind,but I never met him.
Here are my diagrams for the pentagon cross module.
The angle at step 7 has not exact 54 degrees, but this approximation with 53.96 degrees is quite good and relative easy and fast to fold.
Examples for this module are the Pentagon Cross Dodecahedron or coasters by Francis Ow.
Happy folding !
A module for a planned micropolis skyscraper. Not exactly something unique or fancy pancy, but less waste of parts, compared to my other similar builds. There is still room for improvement, but I have chosen parts that I have plenty of. At first I used a technic brick 6x8 instead of regular 1x8 bricks. It is a bit sturdier, but I do not want a rectangular section. They are probably unnecessary anyway.
It is somewhat influenced by Max Braun's supertall - Weiss Tower. I often use grille tiles as windows, but two-by-two in the corners is new to me. I generally prefer 1x1, but then I have horizontal plates outermost in the facade. Now I want a tall, modular tower with a cleaner look and fewer parts. The curtain wall will cover every side, with either a plate 6x12 or 6x24, covered with grille tiles. I usually place the curtain wall half a plate from the outer edge, but here it is flush with the corners.
Part list:
12x Plate 1x1, 3024
2x Plate 1x6, 3666
4x Plate 1x8, 3460
1x Plate 8x8, 41539
4x Plate 6x12, 3028
8x Brick 2x2x3, 30145
16x Brick 2x2 Corner, 2357
4x Brick 1x8, 3008
8x Bracket 1x2 - 1x2 Inverted, 99780
8x Bracket 1x2 - 1x2, 99781
144x Tile, Modified 1x2 Grille, 2412
this is where i will be hanging the world's longest marblechute during the next 6 weeks for the grand opening of planet modulor on the 30th of september.
The crew module adapter, which connects Orion's crew module with the European Service module is lifted in preparation for mate with the Artemis II service module which recently arrived from Airbus in Bremen.
Photo: NASA/Radislav Sinyak
Bremen, Germany. Orion's European Service Module is loaded on the Antonov airplane for transport to Kennedy Space Center.
For the first time, NASA will use a European-built system as a critical element to power an American spacecraft, extending the international cooperation of the International Space Station into deep space. The European Service Module is a unique collaboration across space agencies and industry including ESA’s prime contractor, Airbus, and 10 European countries. The completion of service module work in Europe and shipment to Kennedy signifies a major milestone toward NASA’s human deep space exploration missions to the Moon and beyond.
Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak
Bremen, Germany. Orion's European Service Module is loaded on the Antonov airplane for transport to Kennedy Space Center.
For the first time, NASA will use a European-built system as a critical element to power an American spacecraft, extending the international cooperation of the International Space Station into deep space. The European Service Module is a unique collaboration across space agencies and industry including ESA’s prime contractor, Airbus, and 10 European countries. The completion of service module work in Europe and shipment to Kennedy signifies a major milestone toward NASA’s human deep space exploration missions to the Moon and beyond.
Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak
After struggling with sub-standard tables at public shows resulting in warped baseplates, wavy track alignment, etc.; I decided I should build my own table modules. The design objectives were as follows:
1) self-contained table module with legs, wiring, etc. built-in
2) dimensionally aligned to integer multiples of 16-studs
3) mutually aligned with dowels and/or bolts in both end-end or end-side configurations
4) support optional drop-in modules between self-standing modules
The design you see here is the result. I have built 4x of these modules for my latest Lego model railway and I am quite satisfied with the result. They have proven to be very robust and provide a flat consistent surface for the baseplates. The disadvantage of this design is its weight. Its a compromise I was willing to accept in exchange for robustness. These modules have to survive the rigours of transport to/from public shows as well as within my own house!
I wanted to build a ship/probe module that had the textures of current technology coupled with the shapes and lines of the sci-fi world not yet invented. All stickers are official (from the Discovery line.) All pictures at Brickshelf once moderated.
Dedicated to nnenn.
Seven-Module Crown (Josè Meeusen)
squares, 7 units, no glue
Published in "Origami from Around the World" by Vicente Palacios, p.114
the man in the bottom left corner is kai, a designer who works for modulor. he helped me build the scaffolding, among other things, thx kai!!
must be seen big
Bremen, Germany. Orion's European Service Module is loaded on the Antonov airplane for transport to Kennedy Space Center.
For the first time, NASA will use a European-built system as a critical element to power an American spacecraft, extending the international cooperation of the International Space Station into deep space. The European Service Module is a unique collaboration across space agencies and industry including ESA’s prime contractor, Airbus, and 10 European countries. The completion of service module work in Europe and shipment to Kennedy signifies a major milestone toward NASA’s human deep space exploration missions to the Moon and beyond.
Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak
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Le Corbusier
Maison de l'Homme (1963 - 1967)
Centre Le Corbusier
Heidi Weber Museum
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Eleven metres around sunset at 21:23pm on Sunday 14th May 2023 off Main Street and First Street, from the boat jetty and pier area in Tofino in British Columbia in Canada.
I was renting a fabulous seventy year old private house in Campbell Street, Tofino, and went for a drive and stroll that evening as the sun fell in the sky.
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This is the type of vehicle used to land on the lunar surface by astronauts in the Apollo missions to the Moon. The one on display in the National Air and Space Museum is a real lander whose mission was canceled. The lower halves of six of these vehicles are still sitting on the lunar surface. The upper halves carried the astronauts back to their command module for return home. A lunar lander like this was seen in "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian."
A titanium deployment and downlock truss from the landing gear of the lunar module beckons in the corner…
But the autopilot brain-in-a-box is much more interesting.
It's a core memory module from a Saturn LVDC (Launch Vehicle Digital Computer). They are quite rare as scrap dealers recover $20-30K of gold and platinum from these cores. (more photos from the spaceaholic source of this). The outer wrap consists of timing, drive, inhibit and sensing circuits.
More interesting still is the ghost in the machine. The magnetic cores within still hold whatever program they had when powered down. Since there are no tapes or archives of the code, it is possible that the only remaining copy of the Saturn V flight program is in cores like this. I have the load/write boards, and they look very wonky. If you know of any living domain expert on this system, please point them my way.
This module stores 106k bits (4096 words of 26 bits, 28 with 2 parity bits, across 14 planes with a 128 x 64 fabric of ferrite donuts)... encoding 26-bit instructions, with the first triple-redundant logic. Ultrasonic delay line cache. Destructive readouts. Failure is not an option.