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Topic: The White Rooms
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mensax
Member Posts: 861
From: Virginia
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 03-04-2005 06:54 AM
   
I would like to learn more about the White Rooms. Any recommendations for a source of information? Were there any panaramic photos made of them? Anybody know any stories concerning "Guenter's room?"It seems to me that this would make a great topic for a book! Noah |
randy
Member Posts: 2176
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 03-04-2005 09:49 AM
A good source would be the book 'The Unbroken Chain' by Guenter Wendt and Russell Still. |
sts205cdr
Member Posts: 649
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 03-04-2005 01:03 PM
There's a White Room at the Kansas Cosmosphere museum in Hutchinson.  |
star61
Member Posts: 294
From: Bristol UK
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 03-04-2005 02:07 PM
In 1988 there was an access arm at the KSC visitor center which lead off to a mockup CM. I have`nt got my photos near to hand to check if there was a white room on the end. I remember walking along the arm thinking this is probably the very same metal pathway that Armstrong an co walked down. If anyone knows the history of that particular arm please let me know. Phil G [This message has been edited by star61 (edited March 04, 2005).] |
Jurg Bolli
Member Posts: 977
From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 03-04-2005 02:12 PM
As far as I know (last visit in 2004) it IS the arm that the Apollo 11 crew walked across, and yes, there definitely is a white room at the end, covering half of the CM.
Jurg |
dtemple
Member Posts: 729
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 03-04-2005 08:17 PM
I have walked down that same access arm on three ocassions. The access arm is just beginning to get some serious corrosion. Too bad these historic items must sit outside and deteriorate before they are ultimately protected or are destroyed beyond repair. |
mensax
Member Posts: 861
From: Virginia
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 03-05-2005 10:18 AM
It amazes me how small this appears to be. I wish interior pans were available. Didn't Guenter Wendt and several other men work full time in this space? Along with a desk, misc equipment, and I'm sure a constant stream of visitors and workers... man. that must have been crowded! All of the photo's I've seen of astronauts being presented with gag gifts and then being loaded onboard... there just appeared to be so much more room. I suppose it's all in the lens, just like interior CM photography. Noah |
Steven Kaplan
Member Posts: 140
From: New Jersey
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 03-05-2005 12:03 PM
The white rooms used during Mercury and Gemini were actually part of the launch complex gantry, or in the case of Gemini, the erector tower at LC-19. These surrounded the launch vehicle entirely. The white rooms were part of these structures, and were easily folded back into the service structure when it was time it to be moved or lowered before lift-off. The result is the much larger white room surrounding the Mercury and Gemini spacecraft we are used to seeing in all those photos. In Apollo, LC-34 and LC 39 used the smaller type white room picture above, mounted at the end of one of the service structure swing arms. This is similar to the white room in use today for the shuttle |
mark plas
Member Posts: 385
From: the Netherlands
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 03-06-2005 06:51 AM
phil,I was there back in 1989 and i too can remember an access arm i have to check my pics too. Mark
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mark plas
Member Posts: 385
From: the Netherlands
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 03-06-2005 07:04 AM
Something i was recently thinking about and i think we talked about this a while ago concerning Gunther Wendt was in the whiteroom during the apollo 17 closeout.
In Cernan s book he talked about Gunther not being there but i am pretty sure i saw him on my apollo 17 dvd.so what is the truth ? |
star61
Member Posts: 294
From: Bristol UK
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 03-06-2005 04:11 PM
Absolutely brilliant to think we really have walked on the same few yards of metal that the first humans to walk on another world passed down. I always thought it was the one , but nice to have it confirmed.
I remember a lot of scrap from the Apollo era being around the cape back in the 80s. It would make quite a collection today, if you had a BIG back yard. Phil G |
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