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Topic: Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) 014
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DeltaV
New Member Posts: 9
From: Canada
Registered: Jun 2009
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posted 06-19-2009 11:25 AM
  
Are there any pics of CSM 014 intact and what became of the command module after it was dismantled? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 43576
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-19-2009 11:32 AM
For those unfamiliar with CSM 014, from A Field Guide to American Spacecraft: Planned vehicle for the original Apollo 2 (AS-205) with Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham, to duplicate the Apollo 1 (AS-204) mission in CSM-012. AS-205 was cancelled in December, 1966, and CM-014 was subsequently disassembled in parallel with the disassembly of CM-012 in the post-fire Apollo 1 investigation. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3413
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 06-20-2009 03:21 AM
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dtemple
Member Posts: 730
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 06-20-2009 12:44 PM
quote:
Originally posted by DeltaV:
Are there any pics of CSM 014 intact and what became of the command module after it was dismantled?
CSM-014 was scrapped sometime in the '70s. If I recall correctly some of its components were used as spares for the simulators. The only component remaining from this spacecraft (to my knowledge) is its escape rocket; it is part of the Saturn V at KSC. |
DeltaV
New Member Posts: 9
From: Canada
Registered: Jun 2009
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posted 06-20-2009 04:10 PM
Thanks very much for the info. |
John Charles
Member Posts: 342
From: Houston, Texas, USA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 06-20-2009 07:36 PM
quote:
Originally posted by dtemple:
CSM-014 was scrapped sometime in the '70s. If I recall correctly some of its components were used as spares for the simulators. The only component remaining from this spacecraft (to my knowledge) is its escape rocket; it is part of the Saturn V at KSC.
CSM-014 and the "first Apollo 2" were a fascination of mine several years ago. I eventually published the results of my historical research in a paper titled, The First Apollo 2: Operations Planned for "The Leaping Green Frog," in Quest, the journal of space flight history (Vol. 9 No. 2, December 2001). It is apparently possible to order that back issue of Quest, but I can also send you that particular article -- just be sure to read it some place comfy, lest it lull you to sleep... |
dtemple
Member Posts: 730
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 06-20-2009 08:50 PM
I have that issue and have read the story more than once without falling asleep.  My interest in the unflown Apollo 2 mission led me to build my 1/48 Revell Apollo CSM as S/C 014. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2516
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 06-21-2009 05:23 AM
Looks Great! Where did you get the BPC or did you make it? If so how? |
dtemple
Member Posts: 730
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 06-21-2009 09:19 AM
The BPC was built from plastic card stock and strip plastic. By the way, CM-014 was supposed to fly with an airlock (for one of the scheduled experiments) in place of the hatch window hence that feature appears on my model. |
DeltaV
New Member Posts: 9
From: Canada
Registered: Jun 2009
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posted 06-22-2009 01:37 PM
That's an outstanding job on the Boost Protective Cover. Great detail! Why was the umbilical cover located on the hatch side of the Block 1 CM? |
Tom
Member Posts: 1610
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 06-22-2009 04:25 PM
Excellent job on the model! |
dtemple
Member Posts: 730
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 06-22-2009 07:50 PM
quote:
Originally posted by DeltaV:
Why was the umbilical cover located on the hatch side of the Block 1 CM?
That was the original location for the umbilical. Block 2 spacecraft had it relocated about 180 degrees away. Here is a post-flight photo of CM-009 which shows the umbilical. Originally this topic was about CM-014. It is listed as having been scrapped. How was that accomplished? The forward and aft heat shields were covered with ablative material. If the CM was sold as scrap metal how was this material removed and would the metal have been worth the effort? |
dtemple
Member Posts: 730
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 06-22-2009 07:53 PM
I should correct my earlier posting about the disposition of "014." The SM was NOT scrapped. It was flown with CM-020 on Apollo 6. Apollo 4 flew with CM-017 and SM-020. SM-017 was damaged by an explosion during testing. With the cancellation of Apollo 2, its SM, #014, became available as a spare. |
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