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Space Forum / Shuttle / May 2007Apollo Comd Module
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/176728main_modules.jpg one thing I must do before its my time to leave is visit KSC. Is this a left over command module from the Apollo era or some replica built for display? thanks > http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/176728main_modules.jpg > > one thing I must do before its my time to leave is visit KSC. Is this a left > over command module from the Apollo era > or some replica built for display? > thanks John...check out my web site. I have a listing of each US manned flown spacecraft, and where they are today. KSC is mainly a launch center, so they have pads and boosters, but not as much other hardware as you might expect. The best part of KSC is the Then and Now tour where you get to go over to the Cape and see the historic launch sites and bunkers. Both Houston and Huntsville have better NASA exhibits. An even better space museum (with much less Disney) is the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas. Also, the Smithsonian in DC has a nice display of space hardware. -john-  Signature====================================================================== John A. Weeks III 952-432-2708 john@johnweeks.com Newave Communications http://www.johnweeks.com ====================================================================== > http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/176728main_modules.jpg > > one thing I must do before its my time to leave is visit KSC. Is this a > left over command module from the Apollo era > or some replica built for display? > thanks The Smithsonian has a real Apollo Command Module in it for a little bit longer. >> http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/176728main_modules.jpg >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > The Smithsonian has a real Apollo Command Module in it for a little bit > longer. The Apollo 13 command module was at the Louisville Science Center for many years. Unfortunately, NASA wanted it back and picked it up a couple of years ago. I have no idea where it ended up. George >>> http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/176728main_modules.jpg >>> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > George Looks like it ended up at the Kansas Cosmosphere. George > >>http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/176728main_modules.jpg > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > George Something you may want to consider is a command module that you can actually climb into that is located at Huntsville. I am not sure if it is a replica or an old procedures trainer, or what . . . but actually climbing in and settling into a couch made me truly appreciate how small the interior of the vehicle was. Find two adult sized friends to wait in line with you and all the kids . . . and then the three of you climb in together. Then think about spending a week or more in there doing all the things you have to do over the span of a week. I remember all that was written back in the sixties about how spacious Apollo was . . . compared to Gemini or Mercury. After my experience in the Apollo CM, I went back to look at the interior of a Gemini, and I decided that all those folks who likened Gemini 7 to two weeks in a VW Bug . . . were being entirely too generous . . . the inside of a Bug is huge compared to Gemini. Oh . . . and make sure to take a camera to record your moment inside the vehicle. take care . . . John > >>http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/176728main_modules.jpg > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > George Something you may want to consider is a command module that you can actually climb into that is located at Huntsville. I am not sure if it is a replica or an old procedures trainer, or what . . . but actually climbing in and settling into a couch made me truly appreciate how small the interior of the vehicle was. Find two adult sized friends to wait in line with you and all the kids . . . and then the three of you climb in together. Then think about spending a week or more in there doing all the things you have to do over the span of a week. I remember all that was written back in the sixties about how spacious Apollo was . . . compared to Gemini or Mercury. After my experience in the Apollo CM, I went back to look at the interior of a Gemini, and I decided that all those folks who likened Gemini 7 to two weeks in a VW Bug . . . were being entirely too generous . . . the inside of a Bug is huge compared to Gemini. Oh . . . and make sure to take a camera to record your moment inside the vehicle. take care . . . John >> >>http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/176728main_modules.jpg >> [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > > John When I worked at the Louiville Science Center I was an assistant Science Curator/Exhibit fabricator. One of my tasks was to conserve sensitive exhibits, and one of those was the Apollo 13 Capsule. I cleaned the outside regularly. About once every three months I would climb into it to check for dust/lint, and bugs around the lighting. There were rarely any bugs, but it would get a bit dusty despite our best efforts to minimize that exposure. 2,000 screaming kids per day stir up a lot of dust. It wasn't hermetically sealed or anything, just some plexglass across the openings, and those didn't fit all that well. And yes, you are right. It was definitely cramped inside an Apollo capsule. Can you imagining sitting inside one of those with a space suit on? Ugh. George > http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/176728main_modules.jpg > > one thing I must do before its my time to leave is visit KSC. Is this > a left over command module from the Apollo era > or some replica built for display? > thanks It s a real CSM Apollo scheduled for Skylab rescue mission in early 1970. It s CM 119. SignatureCordialement, Didier "Capcom" Capdevila www.capcomespace.net http://didier.capdevila.free.fr/ > http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/176728main_modules.jpg > > one thing I must do before its my time to leave is visit KSC. Is this a > left over command module from the Apollo era > or some replica built for display? > thanks IIRC correctly the Apollo SM/CM at KSC is flight hardware from one of the cancelled flights. Danny Deger |
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