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Topic: KSC Visitor Complex: Changing spacecraft displays
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robert_l
Member Posts: 168
From: Dundee,Scotland
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted 01-26-2013 09:35 AM
   
I am just back from visiting the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. A lot of changes since my last visit in 1998: The Apollo 14 command module is there, but the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project CM and Skylab rescue CM are no longer. Also, there used to be a lunar module mockup in the Rocket Garden. What's happened to them? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-26-2013 09:39 AM
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project command module was moved to the California Science Center in 2005.To the best of my knowledge, CM-119, the Skylab rescue command module, is still at the Apollo Saturn V Center at Kennedy Space Center. I don't recall there being a lunar module in the Rocket Garden and A Field Guide to American Spacecraft doesn't list one (past or present). |
SpaceDust
Member Posts: 115
From: Louisville, Ky USA
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 01-26-2013 11:56 AM
Here's a photo I took in April 1972 of the LEM. I don't know when it was removed from the garden.  |
413 is in
Member Posts: 628
From: Alexandria, VA USA
Registered: May 2006
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posted 01-26-2013 02:22 PM
Here's two more recent photos of the LM. I took these in August 1997 while working on STS-85.   |
mikej
Member Posts: 481
From: Germantown, WI USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 01-26-2013 05:23 PM
This LM mockup was moved to an interstate highway welcome center near Stennis Space Center. When Stennis still had an on-site visitor center, busses originated at the welcome center and drove to Stennis.I photographed it back in '04 and '05, and the LM was still there the last time Google Maps updated their imagery. |
robert_l
Member Posts: 168
From: Dundee,Scotland
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted 01-28-2013 04:05 PM
Thanks Robert and everyone. The Skylab rescue capsule is missing. I am sure it was there in 1998. There is the command service module, Apollo 20 (?) with the Saturn V, or is the same one? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-28-2013 04:23 PM
As can be seen in this photo from the Field Guide, the Skylab rescue vehicle sat below the Saturn V, under Apollo Boilerplate 30 (BP-30).If it is indeed missing, my first guess is that is undergoing restoration, perhaps by Guard-Lee, but I can inquire and find out. |
robert_l
Member Posts: 168
From: Dundee,Scotland
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted 01-29-2013 10:36 AM
Robert, that is still there. I thought I remembered seeing another capsule? On the floor without SM and it had a pack explaining about it. Will need to check back at my old photos and video from 1998. |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 01-29-2013 01:24 PM
quote:
Originally posted by mikej:
This LM mockup was moved to an interstate highway welcome center near Stennis Space Center. When Stennis still had an on-site visitor center, busses originated at the welcome center and drove to Stennis.
It was still there in September when my wife and I passed through there on our cross-country road trip. The concrete underneath has the name (like at the Chinese theater in Hollywood) and moon boot prints attributed to Fred Haise, if memory serves. I have photos of all of that on my computer at home... |
Zach121k
Member Posts: 62
From: Fenton, Missouri, USA
Registered: Feb 2013
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posted 02-07-2013 09:45 AM
quote:
Originally posted by mikej:
...the LM was still there the last time Google Maps updated their imagery.
I was at Stennis last year, and I can confirm that the module is still there. It's propped up on wood near a playground. |
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