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Topic: Apollo command module assembly process
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wickball
Member Posts: 107
From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 04-19-2011 04:06 PM
   
Can anyone direct me to a guide or manual that that details how the Apollo capsule was assembled? Not looking for painstaking detail, just a good overview with drawings, a block diagram level of sorts, of the steps from beginning to end, to assemble the major components. A rough guide for the assembly person out on the shop floor. |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4494
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-19-2011 04:25 PM
Can you clarify? Are you seeking the assembly process or a discussion of the CSM sub-systems and their inter-relationship with each other? |
wickball
Member Posts: 107
From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 04-19-2011 05:20 PM
The best thing I can think of is:I've just been hired by North American as a technician who will be assigned to the team building the Apollo capsules. My boss has given me a manual to study that shows how we are going to assemble this thing. The spacecraft will move from one assembly station to the next as more pieces are added. I may be assigned to various mounts and need some overall view of what I will be expected to do at each station. I have worked in a factory assembly environment for years and am a model rocket builder, just curious how a builder of Apollo would do his job. |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4494
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-19-2011 05:44 PM
Tall order - many of us would enjoy reviewing documentation on the actual assembly process. There are two locations where this information could exist - the Aerospace Legacy Foundation may hold; one other possibility is within the repositories of the National Archives Fort Worth. If you locate what your seeking please do let this forum know. |
wickball
Member Posts: 107
From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 04-19-2011 06:30 PM
Thanks for your reply, Commander, former ETN3 here. |
Apolloman
Member Posts: 152
From: Ledignan, Gard (30), France
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 04-23-2011 05:23 AM
Me too, I would be interested. I find such a document like this but in more detail (for example): 
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mikej
Member Posts: 481
From: Germantown, WI USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 04-23-2011 06:36 PM
If anyone's interested in the LM document to which Apolloman refers, it is the Lunar Module Subsystem Assembly and Installations. |
Apolloman
Member Posts: 152
From: Ledignan, Gard (30), France
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 04-24-2011 03:40 AM
Correct, thank you, I forgot to mention.My question is: there exists a document similar to that of Lunar Module Subsystem Assembly and Installations? |
wickball
Member Posts: 107
From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 04-24-2011 05:55 AM
This Lunar Module document is great, do you have it in a pdf form that I can download? Perhaps North American had something similar for Apollo module. |
Apolloman
Member Posts: 152
From: Ledignan, Gard (30), France
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 04-24-2011 07:44 AM
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Originally posted by wickball:
...do you have it in a pdf form that I can download?
Yes, for you and other members here. |
wickball
Member Posts: 107
From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 04-24-2011 06:29 PM
Thanks Apolloman, now I just have to figure out how to print out a hard copy (I'm old school, got to hold it in my hand to read), especially pages 37-38, the original appears to have used 11.5-34.0 paper. |
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