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Topic: Apollo spacecraft KSC arrival banners
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LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
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posted 03-25-2018 07:34 PM
  
When the command and service modules for Apollo 13 arrived at Kennedy Space Center from the manufacturer in June 1969, the spacecraft on its transporter had a banner that read "One-O-Nine Third In Line" with lots of signatures.Some other Apollo spacecraft also had banners. Maybe they all did. Can you add to the list? - Apollo 1: "Apollo One"
- Apollo 7: "Spacecraft 101 We Care Enough To Send The Very Best"
- Apollo 8: "Jim, Rusty, Dave We Are Ready Are You?"
- Apollo 9: "Good Luck Again Jim Dave And Rusty 104 Opens The Door"
- Apollo 10: ?
- Apollo 11: Spacecraft 107 - Apollo 11 a "Natural" for the "Big One"
- Apollo 12: (see below)
- Apollo 13: "One-O-Nine Third In Line"
- Apollo 14: ?
- Apollo 15: ?
- Apollo 16: ?
- Apollo 17: ?
- Skylab 2: ?
- Skylab 3: ?
- Skylab 4: ?
- Apollo-Soyuz: "From A To Z Apollo/Soyuz Last And The Best"
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Ken Havekotte
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posted 03-25-2018 09:22 PM
A few years back I did own an Apollo 12 spacecraft arrival banner, signed by hundreds of North American Rockwell workers, that read, "Spacecraft 108 - Ready for the Long Cruise." |
LM-12
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posted 03-26-2018 09:49 AM
Photo KSC-69P-37 is a side view of the Apollo 11 command and service modules being unloaded from the Super Guppy onto a transporter at the Cape Canaveral Skid Strip, but unfortunately you cannot see any banner from that angle. |
LM-12
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posted 03-26-2018 10:03 PM
When spacecraft 103 was shipped from Downey to KSC in August 1968, it was scheduled to fly on Saturn 503 with the McDivitt crew. |
LM-12
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posted 03-27-2018 08:34 AM
The ASTP command module arrived at the Cape on a C-5A Galaxy. |
LM-12
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posted 03-28-2018 06:38 PM
The spacecraft 101 banner mentioned above was on the Apollo 7 service module. The command module had a different banner that said "Moon Award, First Manned Flight, Astronaut Approved" on it. |
SaturnV
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Registered: Sep 2013
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posted 03-29-2018 09:37 PM
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Originally posted by Ken Havekotte:
I did own an Apollo 12 spacecraft arrival banner...
How cool it must have been to own that!!! Whatever happened to it? |
LM-12
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posted 03-30-2018 10:54 AM
The 2TV-1 spacecraft S/N 098 delivered to Houston for thermal-vacuum tests had this banner on it. |
LM-12
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posted 04-02-2018 09:51 AM
The command and service modules for Apollo 7 were delivered separately to KSC in 1968: the SM on May 17 and the CM on May 30. A flight carrying the CM to the Cape on May 29 had to return to Long Beach because of engine trouble. |
LM-12
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posted 04-03-2018 02:05 PM
If anyone has the June 6, 1968 issue of Spaceflight News, it may have a photo of the banner on the Apollo 7 command module. The article is "Command Module Arrives For Testing, Checkout At KSC" on page 1, with illustration. |
LM-12
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posted 04-06-2018 09:24 PM
Photo KSC-68P-288 shows the Apollo 8 command module 103 being unloaded from the Super Guppy at the Cape Canaveral Skid Strip. The resolution is not quite good enough to read the banner on the command module. |
LM-12
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posted 04-09-2018 12:23 PM
There was a sign on the LM-3 descent stage when it arrived at Cape Canaveral on June 9, 1968. It said "The Ascent Stage Is Something Else!!!"The ascent stage arrived at the Cape on June 14. |
LM-12
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posted 04-20-2018 12:07 PM
Apollo 12 service module 108 had a "Spacecraft 108 Lunar Schooner" banner.There is also this illustration for spacecraft 108. |
LM-12
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posted 04-23-2018 11:41 AM
CSM-119 was the backup CSM that would have been used to rescue the Skylab 4 crew had that been necessary.When did CSM-119 arrive at the Cape?
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LM-12
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posted 04-24-2018 12:09 PM
Apollo 13 photo KSC-69-4124 is another view of the banner on CM-109 when the command and service modules arrived at the Cape. |
Ken Havekotte
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posted 05-12-2018 06:24 PM
Apparently there was another CM banner that read, "Jim/Rusty/Dave, We Are Ready for You!" as it was being loaded for transport to Florida by the Pregnant Guppy aircraft in 1968.To answer an above question, the signed Apollo 12 CM-108 banner that I had was sold a few years ago by a space auction house. |
LM-12
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posted 05-12-2018 07:50 PM
Maybe that was the spacecraft 103 banner. |
LM-12
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posted 08-22-2018 02:49 PM
There is a scene listing of some 16mm film footage taken 8/12/68 at KSC that indicates the sign on CM-103 was "Jim, Rusty, Dave We Are Ready Are You?"
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LM-12
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posted 09-01-2018 09:27 AM
The Super Guppy arrived at the Skid Strip with the Skylab Rescue CM-119 and SM-119 on May 2, 1973. |
LM-12
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posted 11-28-2018 02:09 PM
No banner can be seen on the Apollo 10 command module in this view of the CM and SM arriving at KSC. Left: The Apollo 10 Command and Service Modules arrive at KSC. Right: First stage of the Saturn V for Apollo 10 arrives at KSC. |
LM-12
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posted 06-25-2019 09:15 PM
Photo S69-39257 is another view of the Apollo 13 command and service modules arriving at KSC on June 26, 1969. |
LM-12
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posted 09-20-2019 09:32 PM
The signed banner for spacecraft 107 was: Spacecraft 107 - Apollo 11
a "Natural" for the "Big One" |
apollo16uvc
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From: Next to LEM, Descartes Highlands, Moon
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posted 09-21-2019 04:52 AM
Love how we like to give things names and titles for no practical reason. |
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