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Topic: Photo of the week 362 (October 8, 2011)
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heng44
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From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 10-08-2011 03:11 AM
   
 The Apollo 11 astronauts, still inside the Mobile Quarantine Facility, pose with JSC personnel on the flight from Hickam AFB in Hawaii back to Houston aboard an Air Force C-141 aircraft. Ed Hengeveld |
APG85
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posted 10-08-2011 06:27 AM
Wonder what tail number the C-141 was? Sadly, it's probably in pieces in the bone-yard in Tucson now. The pilots got a neat story to tell. Great picture... |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 10-08-2011 07:12 AM
Nice photo. I saw the quarantine trailer just about a year ago in DC. |
cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 10-08-2011 02:04 PM
Here's a thought for Dragon Models: a C-141 with a MQF (or without). |
Steve Procter
Member Posts: 1031
From: Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 10-11-2011 09:05 AM
I've been busy...  C-141 66-7958 |
Steve Procter
Member Posts: 1031
From: Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 10-11-2011 09:08 AM
It did indeed end up at AMARC at Davis-Monthan arriving there 31 March 1998. Long gone by now? |
ea757grrl
Member Posts: 729
From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 10-11-2011 04:24 PM
According to a site that tracks aircraft at AMARC, 66-7958 was broken up in 2003 or 2004. She was stretched into a C-141B sometime in the late '70s or early '80s. |
APG85
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posted 10-11-2011 07:31 PM
I know you can't save them all but maybe that one should have been saved... Thanks for the link. |
capoetc
Member Posts: 2169
From: McKinney TX (USA)
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 10-12-2011 09:38 PM
A review of my log book shows that I flew 2 missions on 67958 during my Air Force career. As I recall, there was a plaque on the forward bulkhead commemorating the aircraft's participation in the Apollo 11 mission. |
Spacepsycho
Member Posts: 818
From: Huntington Beach, Calif.
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted 10-13-2011 12:28 AM
I just heard from the Pima Museum curator who was kind enough to research the disposition of this C-141. He said, ...concerning the disposition of C-141 tail number 66-7958, it was broken up August 28, 2003 and the remains left AMARC on January 8, 2004 in a batch to Tucson Iron and Metal. They would have very quickly melted it all down. |
Steve Procter
Member Posts: 1031
From: Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 10-13-2011 02:32 AM
Just wondering if the commemorarive plaque was saved prior to the aircraft being scrapped. |
apolloprojeckt
Member Posts: 1447
From: Arnhem, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 10-13-2011 02:37 AM
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Originally posted by Steve Procter:
I've been busy... C-141 66-7958
Do I see it good on one of the photos, the photo with inside the quarantine trailer on the way to Ellington AFB, TX, I see on the floor laying a commercial label of a can of Del Monte peaches?  |
Steve Procter
Member Posts: 1031
From: Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 10-13-2011 11:19 AM
You do. Or was it a box of moon rocks disguised as a box of Del Monte peaches? The last image in that series is a nice photo of a box of moon rocks though. My mistake, pineapples... |
Lou Chinal
Member Posts: 1306
From: Staten Island, NY
Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 10-13-2011 02:43 PM
Steve - you did your homework!Anyone know what the sticker above the Hornet+3 sign says in photo # 9? It looks like an Apollo 8 patch. I also thought it was odd that the President Seal was affixed to the MQF. |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1310
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 10-13-2011 03:56 PM
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Originally posted by Lou Chinal:
Anyone know what the sticker above the Hornet+3 sign says in photo # 9?
That would be a "Project Apollo Recovery Team" design showing Snoopy splashing down atop his doghouse. See the 'Snoopy and NASA: Patches and Pennants' thread under the Patches and Pins forum... |
ea757grrl
Member Posts: 729
From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 10-13-2011 05:22 PM
Further to what Lou wrote above, I find it amusing that Airstream made certain to put its name over the door and American Standard made sure to put its logo on the door... but when the whole world was watching, both were covered up by the "Hornet + 3" sign and the Presidential seal during the "welcome home" ceremony, respectively. |
User997
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posted 10-15-2011 02:14 AM
I've always wondered about the Quarantine Trailer and what exact systems it had to allow it to be a self-contained living quarters for the transition between the carrier and JSC.Does anyone know of any documents or information that would relate to the Quarantine Trailer and how it worked precisely? |
space1
Member Posts: 853
From: Danville, Ohio
Registered: Dec 2002
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posted 10-15-2011 04:37 AM
It looks as though the crew inside the MQF could not see the photographer. They are looking out straight ahead while the others are looking to the side at the photographer. In the darkened cargo hold the MQF window probably only allowed them to see their own reflections. |
ea757grrl
Member Posts: 729
From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 10-15-2011 06:08 AM
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Originally posted by User997:
Does anyone know of any documents or information that would relate to the Quarantine Trailer and how it worked precisely?
The book "Hornet Plus Three" by Bob Fish, aside from being a fascinating book about the whole recovery operation, includes a few pages about the origins and operation of the MQF. I recommend it. |
mikej
Member Posts: 481
From: Germantown, WI USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 10-15-2011 05:02 PM
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Originally posted by User997:
Does anyone know of any documents or information that would relate to the Quarantine Trailer and how it worked precisely?
There's the Apollo Recovery Quarantine Equipment Familiarization and Operations Manual, which probably contains more details than you bargained for...The high-level overview would be: Biological isolation is maintained with a redundant exhaust fan and high efficiency filter systeq each fan system operates singly. A single system will maintain a negative pressure within the MQF. |
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